One evening, as I lay on my bunk, I felt an urge to go up topside to be alone. I had just approached the ladder leading out of the compartment, when a voice rang out, loud ‘n’ clear, from somewhere within me. “You must find out why you want out of the Navy,” it commanded. [...]
Butch Drury of Rivendell Books received this year’s affiliate scholarship to IBPA’s Publishing University, which took place right before BookExpo America in New York City, May 26-28. “The whole experience,” stated Butch, “was pretty intense, but very rewarding. In those 2½ days, I learned what will probably take me months to implement. ‘For we are [...]
A Different Kind of Sentinel by Sir E. J. Drury II A review Having survived the war in Vietnam, without physical injury to himself, the author “had nonetheless incurred the deeper wounds of a house divided against itself.” As a child, had not he experienced his real father’s schizophrenia and, later, his stepfather’s alcoholism as [...]
There are some fascinating ideas here. The author uses the springboard of a navy hearing to create a memoir of a difficult life; a bit Joycean both in the collapsing of a personality down into less than a day’s worth of time, and in the sudden drops into fantasy. These are not, unsurprisingly, handled as [...]
As I sat down in the back of the launch, I stumbled upon an image of Mother Nature that sent shivers down my spine. For I had found her badly beaten body lying on the cold stone floor of a fantasy that’d been forged in hell. Unable to free her from the chains that fettered [...]
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“Remember, my son,” admonished the old Indian, “when darkness descends upon you, seek out the fire that burns within your heart, for it is written that nothing, neither the Magician nor his Wraiths, can separate you from my love.” Instead of finding the fire that burned within, I somehow ignited a small brush fire at [...]
When I sat down to write my latest book, A Different Kind of Sentinel, I stood on the precipice of utter darkness, until I ran into my soul, one morning. Having been invited up to her room, one, I might add, with an amazing view, I proceeded to have intercourse with her in a way [...]
