I finally made a James Bond post on my Blog.
https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2025/12/q-is-chekhovs-gunman.html

#Bond #JamesBond #Moonraker #ChristopherNolan #LupinIII #DetectiveConan #AttackOfTheClones #ChekhovsGun

Wrote a new blog post/short story for the week. No I didn't mix up Anton Chekhov's gun and Ivan Pavlov's dog.

I mixed up Chekhov's gun with a different type of dog. >:)

#shortstory #blogpost #creativewriting #blog #chekhovsgun #story #creativewriter

http://thecasualramble.com/2024/08/20/a-casual-ramble-about-chekhovs-dog/

Linens and cleaning the bedroom, so episode six of six of _The Killing Season_ by R.D. Wingfield. The ending of this #RadioPlay was much better – and nastier – than I expected it to be. We begin with Sergeant Jordan's death, with the whole police department spending most of a day tracking down leads. When Detective Inspector Carter and Detective Constable Nuttall check some out, Farnham tags along, since the case may be related to his. They find some info, but nothing major.

The officers are signing off for the night and are on their way to drop Farnham off at his hotel when they sight the silver Jaguar. A chase ensues, and the pursued auto begins shooting at them. Farnham offers to try to shoot out the other car's tires. He hits the driver instead, and the Jag tumbles down an embankment, but the passenger is thrown free. Farnham approaches, because the man is likely the one with the gun. Farnham kills the passenger when he raise his arms, saying later he saw a gun.

The passenger is identified as the blood tech who supposedly took Driscoll's blood. The driver is identified as one of the guards from the data center. Farnham professes sorrow about the man passing his security checks. #AudioDrama

Two days later, after Jordan's funeral, Farnham calls Carter and Nutall to the data center. He says he's a blind fool, and shows the pair a printout of data. Supposedly it's military records from the computer, and it shows that the intruder wasn't trying to _steal_ information, he was _planting_ false data in the computers, in particular data saying that the four soldiers on the island were part of the Moonglow Early Warning System. They weren't. They were actually Soviets pretending to be British soldiers.

Farnham invites Carter and Nutall to come with him while a small Royal Navy fleet storms the island. They find a natural tunnel, enlarged by the military in World War II. And we get mention of #ChekhovsGun, the crashed Soviet satellite. It came down three miles offshore of the island. The Russians sent in a secret submarine to salvage it, but the sub hit a wartime wreck, which rolled over on it. Now the Russians had to send in more people to salvage the sub and its crew as well. So the Russians took over the island, a remote nature sanctuary with only four scientists on it. #RadioDrama

Exploring the sea cave, Farnham and company find a boat with four bodies on it: the real scientists. The soldiers and the scientists were _all_ part of the Russian operation. Two of the real scientists were Americans, one was from Scotland, and the other was Jane Driscoll. The only locals who knew what the real scientists looked like were Jane's father and the advisory council, so they had to die. It's assumed that, when Jordan went to take "Jane" to see her father, he overheard her call her associates, telling them Driscoll must be killed before she arrived and he recognized she was someone else.

Farnham's people then turn up the pretend Jane and her compatriots. Farnham does a "We're all professionals" bit and they admit that it was distasteful killing all those people, but it was the job. They say that the bodies were to be taken out to sea and sunk, with the real scientists apparently dying in a tragic accident, while they themselves were picked up by a sub. And no, they didn't know why the satellite was so important, they were just doing their jobs. #AudioPlay

Farnham tells the Russian foursome they can go, and they set off in the boat. He explains to Carter and Nutall that the satellite is gone, and letting it get out that Russians invaded Britain, killed many people, even two Americans – that's a major international incident at best, and World War III at worst. He then directs their attention to the distant boat, which goes **boom**. All loose ends tied up.

"And that should have been the end of it," says a fourth-wall breaking DI Carter from the future. A day later he shows up at the data center. Carter tells Farnham that the supposedly fresh-from-the-printer data sheet that he showed them, proving the soldiers were Russian, had pencil doodles on the back. Doodles Carter had done while calling in for a truck to pick up the killed intruder from the original break-in. That proves Farnham knew about the Russian operation even then, and that Farnham had deliberately killed the two men in the Jaguar. #BBCRadio

Farnham explains that the Soviet satellite that came down was capable of redirecting British cruise missiles back to their launchers. Fortunately, Britain had already figured out how to counteract that foreign override. But if Russia lost the satellite, they'd switch to some different system that Britain didn't know how to to counteract. So the Soviets had to be allowed to retrieve the satellite. Farnham asks Carter if he told anyone else about the government allowing all those people to be killed, and Carter says he told Nutall.

Later, Carter belatedly realizes that he and Nutall are now loose ends to be snipped, so he puts everything on tape – the story we've been listening to – and leaves it with his solicitor, with intructions to publicize the contents in the event of any accidents to himself or Nutall.

Then Farnham says "Play the end again." They have the tape, and the letter to Carter's solicitor. He speaks to his assistant. "You know what to do. Both of them, Carter and Nutall. An accident. ‹sigh› This is a rotten business…"

Happy Publication Day, James Kearns!

This is an astounding, original, mind-bending collection and I'm so excited for the world to read it and be bowled over by it.

Well done to the amazing Bad Betty Press who've taken so much care with the publication of this gorgeous book.

#poetry #collection #newpoetry #newcollection #experimental #chekhovsgun

I promise I'm being 100% objective when I say my husband's a truly gifted poet and you should pre-order his collection (out in November, published by the pros at Bad Betty Press). It's an absolute joy to read.

Order here: https://badbettypress.com/product/on-the-subject-of-fallen-things-james-kearns/

#poetry #writing #books #language #poems #NewBook #NewBookAlert #publishing #English #NewPoetry #chekhov #ChekhovsGun #UnitedKingdom #NewWriting

This morning around 7AM, I ran by a structure in Stanley Park with a sign that said "9:00 Gun". Neat, I thought.

Guess what just fired off a few minutes ago?

#ChekhovsGun #ButItsACannon
#Vancouver

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9_O%27Clock_Gun