Category Archives: mind/body

Through the Looking Glass

Posted on October 28, 2011 by Sir EJ Drury II

“I’m not goin’ to the brig,“ I insisted when, later on that morn­ing, I resumed the con­ver­sa­tion where she had left off, the night before. “You’d choose death over life?“ she asked. “I don’t under­stand.“ “May I have your atten­tion, … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Sting of Death

Posted on June 18, 2011 by Sir EJ Drury II

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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Intolerable Ache

Posted on March 10, 2011 by Sir EJ Drury II

Later that evening, I sat down to write Mary a let­ter, with the inten­tion of telling her about the dif­fi­cul­ties I’d had in deal­ing with my own sex­u­al­ity. Afraid that she might think less of me if I told her … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Letter of the Law

Posted on December 5, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

Just then, the XO began to read the charges against me. “Drury, you’re being charged here, today, with hav­ing vio­lated Arti­cle 86 of the UCMJ, in hav­ing failed to go at the time pre­scribed to your appointed place of duty … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Conviction

Posted on November 5, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

After tak­ing on stores, we returned to the dol­drums of Yan­kee Sta­tion where for kicks one night, Marty ’n’ I attended our first ship-​​​​over spiel. Our recruiter, a first class petty offi­cer named Kraft, bore such a close resem­blance to … Con­tinue read­ing →

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This Underground Resistance

Posted on October 5, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

How quickly did Fate reen­ter my life, this time around, by using a third class boil­er­man named Far­ris, who had just been assigned to the mess decks as our new petty offi­cer. For She wasted no time in cre­at­ing fric­tion … Con­tinue read­ing →

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The Breeding Ground for Discontent

Posted on September 30, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

Even though the ship­fit­ters went out of their way to make me feel like one of them, I could never rid myself of the feel­ing that I just didn’t belong here. For in spite of all the cama­raderie, I could … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Welcome to the Shipfitters?

Posted on September 25, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

Plump in build, Aubrey reminded me of a car­toon char­ac­ter named Porky Pig. Why he even had the same pen­chant for stut­ter­ing as this car­i­ca­ture of him. Only Aubrey had a ten­dency to get on my nerves with his inces­sant … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Heaven’s Door

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

Before long, I stum­bled upon some very unusual look­ing build­ings, which imme­di­ately grabbed my atten­tion, but no more than the tug I’d felt at the back of my jumper. “Excuse, please,“ I heard this tiny voice say. Spin­ning around, I … Con­tinue read­ing →

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A Carefully Guarded Secret

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Sir EJ Drury II

Before my Captain’s Mast, I pulled two days of shore leave in Japan. While the con­ver­sa­tion for many of the crew grav­i­tated down around sam­pling some of the finest p—y to be found any­where on the Asian Con­ti­nent, I looked … Con­tinue read­ing →

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