Category Archives: fantasy

You Shall Have No Other Gods Before Me

On the whole, I must say that I rather enjoyed this lit­tle stint in the brig. Hav­ing sur­vived the rig­ors of an ini­ti­a­tion into the Navy’s own ver­sion of a frat house, the Inter­na­tional Broth­er­hood of Brig Brats, I was … Con­tinue read­ing

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Heaven On Earth

Hav­ing fully expected to be locked up behind bars in some loath­some cell, all by myself for thirty days, I was quite sur­prised when my charge, a fel­low trustee, led me off to a barracks-​​​​like room out in front and … Con­tinue read­ing

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I Pronounce You Both Man and Wife

No sooner had we all sat down around the fire of my heart’s desires, to con­tem­plate my next move, than Michael shot up with the sug­ges­tion that he ’n’ I go fly­ing, of all things. “I believe you ’n’ I … Con­tinue read­ing

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Two Seemingly Irreconcilable Realities

Despite all the enlight­en­ing fan­tasies I encoun­tered in church that Sun­day, I still could not see the invis­i­ble image of God within myself, the indi­vid­ual I was meant to become. Nor could I deci­pher the hand­writ­ing on the altar—the sin­gle … Con­tinue read­ing

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Above All Else

As we approached the coast of Oahu after hav­ing been gone for almost six months to the day, it felt good to be back home again. Hav­ing barely pen­e­trated the magic and the mys­tery of my being on this, my … Con­tinue read­ing

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A Very Different Kind of Sentinel

Hav­ing parted com­pany with Greg, on such a cheer­ful note, I wan­dered up top­side where I was accosted by the voices of my fac­ul­ties, from some­where across the void, as I sat down at my usual perch, feel­ing a bit … Con­tinue read­ing

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The Triumph of Wisdom Over Instinct

Who is she (mean­ing Lady Lib­erty)?“ I asked my soul as I slapped a coat of primer, called red lead because of its color, on the guardrail which stood between us, like a sur­re­al­is­tic paint­ing of the bar­rier that nor­mally … Con­tinue read­ing

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Too Nascent to Grasp Yet

If you’d been taken on a vision quest, around the time of your com­ing to sex­ual matu­rity,“ pro­claimed my men­tor, “you’d have been spared much of the anguish you are now suf­fer­ing.“ “What is this vision quest of which you … Con­tinue read­ing

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Dark and Menacing Figure Dressed in Black

But I was still hav­ing a hard time deal­ing with the other two demons that remained at large, until the two showed up in a dream, one night, incog­nito. While the one lay beside me on the bed, dis­guised as … Con­tinue read­ing

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Who To Resist and Who Not To

As I stum­bled through yet another depres­sion in the space-​​​​time con­tin­uüm, I won­dered if I would not be better-​​​​off clos­ing my eyes to the out­side world, as had my real father before me. For I was tired of always hav­ing … Con­tinue read­ing

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