It wasn’t until later on that morning that I saw the door inch open, ever so slightly. Having been ordered to report to the shipyard dispensary, I figured they (meaning the Navy) wanted to examine me, that is, my body, to see if I was physically fit to make a West Pac cruise after my [...]
I hadn’t heard from my girlfriend back home since I had arrived onboard the ship, three or four weeks ago, until I found a letter from her lying on my bunk. As my heart leapt within my chest, I grabbed the letter and tore into it. Dear Butch, Sounds like you don’t think too much [...]
What I saw, in many of the crew, were men with broken spirits, hollow men who had sold their souls to the Great Gray Mother for a mere pittance. Having been granted the intoxicating drink they sought to ease their pain, and the favors of her prostitutes to satisfy their compulsion for soul as the [...]
While in the neighborhood of this Jurassic Park, I encountered one of the largest dinosaurs to have escaped from the imaginations of men, a species of Frankensteinian Behemoth, more commonly known as the aircraft carrier Enterprise. When I learned how many hundreds of thousands of pounds of human flesh this beast had consumed since its [...]
“…Angered at the loss of yet another member of my platoon,” continued the corporal, “I’d go wild with hate, killin’ as many gooks as I could to avenge this death and assuage my fear of dyin’ if I didn’t get on the stick ‘n’ start kickin’ ass fore Charlie kicked mine. Till the day I [...]
“I don’t know how you felt,” he confessed, “when you got back from Nam. But I was so goddamn glad to have gotten my ass outta there in one piece, that no sooner had I hit land than I fell down on my hands ‘n’ knees and kissed the earth as if she were my [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
