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Cronos. Part Seven.

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

Cronos. Part Seven. ‘Home darling,’ Brendan said when the ship was still. Audrey stretched and they went up to look at the house as it was back in 1919. ‘When was it built?’ Audrey asked as she held her arm round his waist. ‘I don’t really know. We were l...

Cronos. Part Six.

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

Cronos. Part Six. The familiar hum came along with the slight tremor and the screen of the earth went like a television set with its snow flake effect. It then cleared to show just a haze where the Earth was and the ship was now trembling quite a bit, som...

Cronos. Part Five.

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

Cronos. Part Five. It was a whirlwind two weeks being chaperoned everywhere for the getting together of her trousseau though her escorts threw their hands up in horror when she said that she expected to honeymoon in the wilds of Argentina. Brendan’s mothe...

Cronos. Part Four.

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

Cronos. Part Four. ‘Did you make notes when you were here last?’ he asked. ‘No, I only made sketches of the dead Brontosaurus at the site,’ she answered as she got her notebook out and thumbed through the pages. ‘Well I know I did,’ as she continued to tu...

Cronos. Part Three.

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

Cronos. Part Three. Audrey, in spite of the couple of hours sleep she’d had in the ship, was tired when she dragged herself out of her tent to put in a stint at the excavation, and was glad when the lunchtime bell rang. Lunch was hurried and she was soon...

Cronos Part Two

A young woman finds space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

The sun was very hot on her shoulders as she came out into the small clearing. She was perspiring heavily now and realised that over the past couple of hours, the temperature must have gone higher. She mulled this over as she approached the carcass and li...

Cronos Part One

A young woman finds a space helmet that leads her on to adventure and love.

They were on a small treeless plateau about 1700 feet above sea level, on what were the lower slopes of the Eastern side of the Andes range of mountains. The Colorado River was only a mile away in this far corner of La Pampa, Argentina. The campsite was i...