Right Livelihoods
Chapter One
The Omega Force
1. The Current National Security Environment
I came to on the loggia-the only question was whose loggia? There
was the Cavanaghs' loggia, designed by that famous and locally
celebrated architect whom I once met. The name is gone. The
Cavanaghs' loggia faced the backyard, and they had a splendid garden
with unusual varieties of rosebushes. No, this was not the
Cavanaghs' loggia. Was it the Hilliards' loggia? I saw theirs when I
attended one of the Hilliard cocktail extravaganzas. A hot ticket in
these parts. I felt a sublimity at the view of the distant water,
the rocky coast, the Hilliards' tulips, ably tended by their
one-armed caretaker. No, it wasn't the Cavanaghs' loggia, it wasn't
the Hilliards' loggia, and it wasn't the Pritchards' loggia, where
my wife once got into a contretemps with the owners of the demesne.
Helen (who prefers that I not use her real name in this account)
grew red in the face in repelling some uncharitable remark by Sydney
Pritchard. We strode proudly toward our sports coupe, p ... read full excerpt from Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas ebook
