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Countdown - January - Part One

Are you scared yet? PROLOGUE 8:55am -GMT January 1, 1999 Super Seekrit Russian Base @ Poulostrov Kanin , Northern Arctic Circle Colonel Yuri Petrovich is sad. He's stuck stuck guarding some hunk of metal. It's cold and he hardly sees the sun. Plus, there's the annoyingly perky 20 year-old Nikolai Militov , inviting him to the launch center for a drink. Yuri pretends to be horrified that Nik would suggest abandoning his post and then agrees to the drink. Nik and Yuri head to the launch center and Yuri comments that it's 11 am and aren't they supposed to raise their glasses at midnight? Nik replies that it's midnight SOMEWHERE. Yuri opens the super seekrit door with the super seekrit fifteen-digit code and doesn't bother closing it behind him because...it would take too much effort? WORST SECURITY GUARD EVAR ! They get to the launch center and the party's already started. Someone calls Yuri "comrade" and he gets all sad faced and emo o

Ode to Dorkiness

I ordered books 5 &6 of Boyfriends/Girlfriends/Making Out today. I am ridiculously excited about this. At the rate I keep going with my SwagBucks gift cards, I'll be ordering book 8 on the 30th. I've decided to pretend that 1-8 are the only canon that matters. HEE! I'm getting them in their original so-early-'90's-it-hurts covers! SQUEE! I like the originals so much better than the newer versions. So, they should be coming at the end of next week. I also picked up Wild Hearts Forever by Cherie Bennett. I vaguely remember this series, but I haven't seen it in forever. I did a little dance in Goodwill upon finding it. I have to hunt down March through December of the Countdown series and I'll be happy. It's strange. I have only one book to go before I finish up my Sweet Valley High collection, but I can't bring myself to buy it. The reason? I started these books when I was 10 or 11. I've wanted all of them for over 15 years and if I get this

Next Book!

I've decided that the next book I will recap will be in the Countdown series by Daniel Parker Don't feel bad if you've never heard of it. The plot goes thusly, what if everybody over 21 melted into a puddle of black goo and thurvivors were the smeggiest smegheads to ever smeg a smeg? Be there or be square...