by L. S. Wood
This neutron creature was very unpredictable. Man would search for a solution taking years to defeat the menace man had made for himself against himself, and was now destroying the very planet they were trying to live on.
Why had this creature in the sky not taken the lives of those astronauts returning to the earth aboard the Twitchel the first time when the crew aboard the Twitchel reentered space a second time and returned once again? What about the three crews aboard the Soviet-made space capsules and the crew of the Omega One on its maiden mission into outer space? It must have had something to do with the close-knit seams of their flight suit uniforms that kept the neutron mass from entering their outer garments and sucking what little electrical field they had to operate their brains out from within them.
Whatever the reason behind all of it, the scientists from around the planet busied themselves by looking close at all the strange phenomena in it. They figured that any human wanting to protect him or herself out of doors, would have to wear one of these flight suits to guarantee their protection from the explosive neutron fields. With that said, the globe of the earth would become a planet with its intelligent creatures walking around outside dressed in protective clothing as if they were aliens from another planet visiting their own world. There were so many unanswered questions about the neutron creature lurking in the sky above it behooved everyone. What should one do to protect themselves from its lethal strike of death? When if ever was a big concern, would electricity ever be restored to planet Earth? Would man learn to be friends with this creature lurking in the sky or seek out ways to kill it before it killed them? Would man ever find ways in which to harness the strength of this neutron monster for man?
Through the want of greed, the modern day conveniences of the time were lost. Mankind might destroy himself searching for ways to neutralize this creature of neutrons, and in doing so who knows, the next big bang felt around the planet Earth might be its last.
THE END
OTHER WORKS BY L. S. WOOD
THE BROKENHEARTED LEPRECHAUN
Skip Into Trouble
A story about Skip, a young leprechaun with a broken heart who ventured out into the mortals’ world to save his missing parents he loved, who at the time were presumably held captive by mortals as slaves in or about Dublin Town. With only a smidgen of his grown-up leprechaunic powers, he manages to get himself drunk and a stowaway aboard a ship bound to America causing grave trouble onboard and almost sinking the ship. Until he gains his full powers as a leprechaun, he has many upon many mishaps. With his Emerald Irish luck, he manages to accomplish the risky task he set out on in saving both parents held by an evil mortal and brings them both back home to Ireland from America. In this adventure, he makes two mortal enemies of leprechauns who befriended him, very rich and happy by going out of their way to help him when he had placed himself in great danger, and who helped to save his loved ones.
CHIEF WHITE EAGLE
The Last Free Abnaki Indian
The first of a series of books about Chief White Eagle that begins with his birth into a free-roaming tribe of Abnaki Indians in the State of Vermont. The books harbor the many good and sorrowful adventures he faces throughout his lifetime as a lonely Indian trying to avoid capture by the white-man. The loss of his young bride and their infant son leads him to a life as a hermit, hidden away in a cave in the mountains of Vermont. By accident, he befriends a young white boy by saving the young boy’s life during a hurricane. The boy who had just saved a baby eagle’s life was about to step off a cliff to his death. A secret friendship evolved from his unselfish act that lasted a lifetime until the chief died. In the ending series, the white boy performs an Indian burial ritual, taught to him by the chief, to bury him beside his fallen bride and son. They had both died from the smallpox disease many years before when the chief was a young man, and living on a reservation governed by the white man. The story tells how when he was small, the tribe was made to move to a reservation, and how he became free to live as a hermit by himself in a cave on a mountains in Lunenburg, Vermont.
L. S.
Wood lives in north central Massachusetts in Winchendon with his lovely wife Rebecca of forty plus years. They have two children together, a son Scott and a daughter Jennifer. His son has four children, three girls and a boy. His daughter has one boy. His grandchildren keep him very busy when they are around which is most of the time. His son lives right next door to him. He would not want it any other way. His daughter lives a couple of towns away and visits a couple of times a week with her little boy who keeps his grandfather very busy when he is around.
He graduated from Mount Wachusett Community College, and attended Fitchburg State University. He worked for a bank before going to work in industry. He left working for others, started a real estate and construction company, and put up and sold many houses in the New England area. He started a home heating oil and delivery business after closing his real estate and construction business, giving the oil company to his wife, and has since retired.
He has written many children’s books, science fiction, love stories, and more. Many of his books he has written sit on a shelf or in a file cabinet in his study collecting dust. He writes for the pleasure of putting stories down on paper. Due to family and friend pressure in sharing his works with the world, he is now just longing to publish his works, and hopes the people of the world will enjoy his books as much as he has enjoyed writing them.
