If guns were toasters! Americans would have the right to bare toasters, though some states would limit the size and quantity of bread you could toast. Deranged individuals would break into high schools

POSTSCRIPT My adventure started with the daunting task to find my mother’s grave. Ultimately this would lead to John Smith and his friends, who wanted to complete the story, that of a kind man who meticulously

Throughout our research and cross-border adventure I often thought about meeting the man who saved my life, and who meant so much to so many people, including my poor dad. He is quiet and keeps his thoughts

NAME AND ADDRESS SUPPLIED Dear Amy Your letter was forwarded to me by NAME SUPPLIED - a former British soldier who knew John from when they worked together down the alien mine. John arrived in our village

CHAPTER FOUR We think that John Smith and those with him crossed the border into Scotland on the evening of 19th July 2022. Waiting for them were three vehicles that transported them to an army base near

PRISON DIARY 5th June 2018 Less of a diary and more of a written account of what happened to us after the aliens left. It’s been just over three years since I last wrote anything down, and only now have

TOP SECRET Close Encounters at Harthope Burn TOP SECRET In August 2014 refugees who had been rounded up while on route to Scotland started to arrive at a large encampment near Harthope Burn in Northumbria.

CHAPTER THREE It’s common knowledge that we were once visited by alien beings from another planet or solar system or wherever they came from. They were also responsible for our partial demise. Whatever

DAIRY / …continued 23 December 2014 Something is up between the cooks and the army. Miranda is very tight lipped about what is going on. Something serious appears to be on the horizon. Miranda and her

DIARY 18 September 2014 Finally managed to find something to write on. I work for the aliens now, digging a hole in the ground. Strange sentence that: “I work for the aliens…”. Just over four months ago

ADDRESS SUPPLIED Dear Amy Your appeal for information was posted on the British Red Cross Bulletin Board here in East Kilbride. I met John while we both worked down the mine near Harthope Burn in Northumbria.

CHAPTER TWO It must be assumed that we were picked up shortly after John’s final entry in his diary. The last we saw of John Smith was at a refugee centre in Northumberland. Dad said that I would often

DIARY 22/23 June 2014 This is my second attempt at keeping a diary. My first lasted three days and ended up on the fire – not to keep warm, but because I couldn’t do justice to what happened or to those

CHAPTER ONE There is always a feeling of apprehension as winter turns to spring. The lucky ones survive another winter and another year, but many don’t make it. They are hidden behind closed curtains or

INTRODUCTION My dad often spoke of a man who saved my life, and how we became refugees living in Scotland. On the morning of 14th May 2014 most of Europe and North Africa was consumed by a massive fireball

This is my first proper post on Steemit (that's if you ignore my rant about poor image quality and my introduction). My first impression of this platform is that it's easy to hype-up Steemit, if you're

Select a username? This should be fun! I’ve been mulling over which name to use for almost a week now – ever since discovering Steemit. I want a name that's easily remembered, even for all the wrong reasons.

This should have been my "Introduce Yourself" post - one filled with images, all correctly sized and with no discernible loss in quality. But it wasn't to be. Here are my problems: Images are