Mark Stigers
Bio
One year after my birth sputnik was launched, making me a space child. I did a hitch in the Navy as a electronics tech. I worked for Hughes Aircraft Company for quite a while. I currently live in the Saguaro forest in Tucson Arizona
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Shedder
Shredder was a Black Pomeranian. Being a terror, there was not an ankle that was safe in New Orleans if she was around. The Terror needed a walk, and she made a fuss to her owner Xyizan. The Necromancer finished putting the powder she had made into an Amulet of Protection. She placed it with the others for sale.
By Mark Stigers 5 years ago in Fiction
A White Set of Cracker Jacks
When I was in the Navy in the Nineteen Eighties, McNamara had given the Navy business suits for uniforms. No style, just a nasty business suit. The Navy was unimpressed. They asked that some modern Cracker Jacks be made available. When the white uniform came out, I bought a set. I thought I looked hot in them. Little did I know the Officers had noticed me, and I would be sorry I bought them. I had the POW (Petty Officer of the Watch) when we pulled in to port. The Captian was OOD (Officer Of the Deck). I was not sure what to think.
By Mark Stigers 5 years ago in Humans
My First Time in the Navy
Every good Sea Story starts with this is a no-shitter, and this one is one of those. In Nineteen Seventy-Nine, I was a Nuke Power student. When I graduated from ET School in the Great Lakes, my class was not ready, so I got a transfer to the USS Vogelgesang, DD 862, before Nuke School in Orlando. I was green. I was more green than a freshly cut Pear Tree.
By Mark Stigers 5 years ago in Humans
The Night I Should Have Died
I don’t remember the date. I don’t remember the name of the storm. We were off the Va Capes, graveyard of the Atlantic. I remember the night well. I had the mid-watch in the shop onboard the USS South Carolina CGN-37. We dogged the mid-watch to two hours, not the normal four hours. That night it was two hours of hell.
By Mark Stigers 5 years ago in Fiction
