The Council of Alan Foster

Welcome to Alan Foster. Alan Foster is a character whom I base several stories off of. He is a troubled man who has experienced a lot, lost a lot, but lived a lot. This intro story will give you a look inside of the head and emotions of the man who is Alan Foster, and I will say it isn't a pleasant place. Prepare yourself reader as I welcome you to the Council of Alan Foster's mind, heart, and soul...

The Council of Alan Foster

            The definition of a council according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary is, "a group of people who provide advice or guidance on something". When one thinks of a council they do think of just this, a group of people most likely sitting around some sort of table, dressed in royal robes or in a suit and tie making important business or political decisions. To be honest that is probably the normal assumption of what a council would be, but then again I guess I'm not normal. My name is Alan Foster and to me the conventional definition of a council falls short of  what a council means to me. My council would simply be the council of Alan Foster, a council composed of me for me. My council is composed of my conscience; whom would be the head of my council most of the time, my emotions, my memories, basically everything that makes a person who they are. So far this probably doesn't seem too abnormal, a person who's emotions guide them, a person who makes decisions based on past mistakes, a person who constantly argues with himself.

Greed's Expedition

I would like to introduce a story I wrote some time ago but am not yet complete with. I feel that this story is the best to start off with because it is one of my favorites of my own work. Please enjoy, its a long one. 
 

Greed’s Expedition

Alex Ford

            Have you ever had one of those really good ideas that deep down you knew was impossible to accomplish without some sort of divine intervention by God? Well this was one of those ideas. Unfortunately for me and my team the idea came from my boss, a man named Tom Langley a billionaire with an oil empire big enough to fund its own country. With this guy that divine intervention from God was unnecessary because he had enough money to fund any idiotic idea he had. I really wish he would have had an idea like genetically engineered puppies that pooped rainbows, but this guy was all about making even more money than he already had and rainbow pooping puppies were not in high demand right now. No, this man’s idea was something far more insane. Tom hired a group of scientists to do the impossible and construct a machine that would make a rift in time. If you ask me this guy has been watching too much Back to the Future or Doctor Who, but nonetheless the scientists had succeeded in creating this machine, and no it was not a delorean. Tom’s plan is to arrange a team of highly skilled professionals to accompany him back to the Stone Age and create special reservoirs in which oil will naturally be made over the millennia. This was actually the easy part of the expedition, simply fill some giant holes underground with dead and decaying plants and animals and let the natural process of things occur. He will then travel far enough into the future to purchase all of these properties before they are bought out for other reasons and then return home where he will have billions of dollars more than he already has. The only part of this whole insane thing that I don’t understand is why do I have to go with them? Oh yeah I guess with all this explaining of my boss’s crazy asinine plan I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Brett Morrison and I am the assistant to Tom Langley for his corporation Global Oil Inc. which apparently makes me qualified to be one of the few that gets to travel in time.

To Make Short Stories not so Short

This will be my first post on this website. To introduce myself my name is Alex, I am interested in bringing short stories that I write to the public for your viewing pleasure and feedback. I should be posting one of my first short stories soon (sometimes tonight or tomorrow). I will follow up with others that I have already completed and some new stuff as time passes. If you have any feedback on any of my work or would like to contact me for any reason you can contact me through the website or my Google account. Thank you and this has been a brief post from me, Alex.

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Clash with Reality: “Civilization” and Failed Policy

     Scholars in the many fields of humanities studies provide several different definitions for civilization.  However, the idea and discussion of civilization does not limit itself to universities and political think tanks.  Many people are familiar with the phrase, “the West,” shorthand for Western Civilization, conceived as the nations of Western Europe and the Anglo sphere.  Usually, people think of civilization as a shared super culture between large population clusters, nations being the prime candidate. In this envisioning, culture means shared values, identity and religion.  Samuel Huntington, a popular proponent for civilization study, defines civilization as, “…highest cultural grouping of people and the broadest cultural identity people have short of that which distinguishes humans from other species.” 

The Politics and People of Roman America

     We free and brave Americans have already stumbled with full force into another Presidential election cycle.  Familiar worn out faces meet shiny new gazes in the gladiatorial arena of Iowa, the state that only exists a brief few months every four years before slipping back into a forgotten cornfield.  Already we have Don Jackass, a reference to perhaps the most sensible thing ever said by South Carolina Senator and candidate for President Lindsey Graham, the Vermont Sandernista and Billary making the rounds and blunders necessary for a successful campaign.