Category Archives: autobiography

The Man This Naughty Boy Had Become

And so was I left stand­ing in the bushes beside the lane, star­ing down the end of a rifle, with a gook in my sights. “Remem­ber, my son, you are three per­sons in one,“ admon­ished my men­tor, as I stewed … Con­tinue read­ing

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Away with You, Satan!

At the exchange we ran into Harold ’n’ Greg, who seemed to be feel­ing about as blue as I was. After exchang­ing a few cur­sory remarks, we all fell silent, as one after another drifted off into his own lit­tle … Con­tinue read­ing

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Out of Sync

You have your beliefs, Dury,“ refuted Marty, “and I have mine. And I believe in usin’ brute force when nec­es­sary. Ya can’t talk to a f—-n’ ani­mal, Dury, when it’s in attack mode, cause the dumb f—-r ain’t gonna under­stand … Con­tinue read­ing

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Fallacy of the Phallus

As the low lif­ers swarmed over the side of the ship, half-​​​​cocked, like Pan, to seek out ’n’ rape the nymphs that hid from them, just beyond the gates to the base, in the vul­val town of Olon­gapo, Marty ’n’ … Con­tinue read­ing

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Pubic Bay

As word spread like wild­fire amongst the crew, that the ship was headed for the Naval Base at Subic Bay—an inlet on the west­ern side of the Philip­pine island of Luzon, euphemisti­cally referred to, as Pubic Bay—it quickly aroused the … Con­tinue read­ing

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My Song

Delighted with the advances I had made in my inte­rior life, I wished I could hear from Mary as often as I heard from my men­tor. I was par­tic­u­larly anx­ious to hear from her, only because I had sent, with … Con­tinue read­ing

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Sting of Death

Sev­eral days later, while sit­ting at my usual perch, I spied a swarm of sea snakes slith­er­ing about in the water, like mag­gots on a piece of meat. As my stom­ach churned with the desire to do more with my … Con­tinue read­ing

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Unrelenting Heat of the Doldrums

With the dis­ap­pear­ance of my men­tor, was I left behind to suf­fer the unre­lent­ing heat of the dol­drums — that area of both the cere­bral and south­ern hemi­spheres abound­ing in calms, squalls, and light shift­ing winds. At the same time, … Con­tinue read­ing

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Game of Charades

Next, we were approached by a cab dri­ver who, in bro­ken Eng­lish, offered to drive us wher­ever we wanted to go, through­out the remain­der of the day, for the pal­try sum of ten dol­lars. “Trust,“ he pleaded with heart­felt sin­cer­ity. … Con­tinue read­ing

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Outside the Belly of the Whale

After hav­ing been at sea for well over a month, I looked for­ward to get­ting off this bob­bing cork and step­ping onto solid ground again, no mat­ter if it was for­eign soil. For­tu­nate enough to have pulled two days of … Con­tinue read­ing

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