Seeking Wulf out that evening, I found him up on the Signal Bridge where, with a fixed gaze, he stood wrapped in his own thoughts. Startled by the sound of my approach, he turned and smiled halfheartedly as if he weren’t too pleased to see me. “Hi,“ he finally said with raised brows and a [...]
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 [...]
“Tell me,” I begged of my shadow, “why are you so much more transparent than any of the other images I’ve encountered thus far?” “As both gate ‘n’ gatekeeper to the vast and unexplored reaches of your own inner space, the void that separates the gates of heaven from the jaws of hell, I allow [...]
“For four long years,” began my new-found friend, a rebellious intellectual from Boston, Massachusetts, “I’ve struggled against becoming an animal like the rest of these poor bastards. Next week when I walk off this ship for the last time, I’ll have prevailed.” “I know the feeling,” I interjected. “From the first day of my enlistment,” [...]
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 [...]
What I saw, in many of my shipmates, 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 [...]
