Muggins Rules
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It's 1944 in France, over a month after the bloody D-Day landings. Allied armies are engaged in a life and death struggle against a determined German army. The outcome of the war hangs in the balance.
In the middle of the hellish fighting a bomb disposal unit of the Royal Canadian Army Engineers is assigned to disarm a tall boy, or earthquake bomb, the largest bomb in the British arsenal. The unexploded bomb is buried in the centre of a road critical to the allied armies advance and the German's are determined to stop them.
Lieutenant Gus Aimes must decide which of his remaining men will defuse this deadly bomb or die trying. The problem is no one has successfully disarmed a tall boy bomb before.
Russ Crossley
International selling author, Russ Crossley writes science fiction and fantasy, and mystery/suspense under the name R.G. Crossley. His latest science fiction satire set in the far future, Revenge of the Lushites, is a sequel to Attack of the Lushites released in 2011. The latest title in the series was released in the fall of 2013. Both titles are available in e-book and trade paperback. He has sold several short stories that have appeared in anthologies from various publishers including; WMG Publishing, Pocket Books, and St. Martins Press. He is a member of SF Canada and is past president of the Greater Vancouver Chapter of Romance Writers of America. He is also an alumni of the Oregon Coast Professional Fiction Writers Master Class taught by award winning author/editors, Kristine Katherine Rusch and Dean Wesley Smith. Feel free to contact him on Facebook, Twitter, or his website http:www.russcrossley.com. He loves to hear from readers
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Muggins Rules - Russ Crossley
Muggins Rules
Russ Crossley
Published by 53rd Street Publishing
Copyright 2015 Russ Crossley
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Cover art © Can Stock Photo Inc. / rck953
Cover designed by R. Edgewood
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This is a work of fiction. Any similarities to persons living or dead are purely coincidental.
Introduction
This story was written for an anthology workshop organized by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Katherine Rusch in February 2014. The theme for the anthology was Risk Takers, meaning stories about people taking extreme risks, and it had to involve some sort of game element.
I decided to incorporate the game of cribbage, a game my father taught my brother and me from an early age, and to honor my father’s military service with the Canadian Army in World War II where he learned the game.
My father served with the artillery but I decided to use the bomb disposal unit of the Royal Canadian Army Engineers as my subject since they faced incredible risks deactivating and disposing of unexploded ordinance during the war.
What you are about to read is the result of my efforts. The story was published in Fiction River Volume 12 – Risk Takers in March 2015.
Think of these veterans as you read the story, and when the opportunity arises, thank them for their service.
In case you’re wondering, the term Muggins Rules
is a unique aspect of the game of crib wherein, if a player fails to peg all the points in their hand, another player may steal
them by uttering the term Muggins.
Check out how this rule applies in this tale of war and sacrifice.
Lieutenant Gus Aimes came