Voyage of the Forsaken
In the terror of this moment, as a rancorous ocean violently lashed our frail craft and vented torment upon us, it seemed an eternity since Carrie and I exchanged farewells on that sunny southern shore.
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Serendipity
The Vole That Roared
En route from Navy Mess to Situation Room, Wilbur warned me to expect one unusual amid the gathering. Unusual how? A character seen mainly at night, in office or hallway, at to whom you might
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Land of the Wooden Ham
Americans, aka “The USofA,” apparently earned their deserved reputation well over a century ago. The ‘rest of the world’ – themselves thieves extraordinaire – were already treating our American cousins with wary respect a petty
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Post Truth Teapot
What’s this silliness of “memes” and “#hashtags” swirling through social media in ever decreasing circles? I’m older than most of you – well, all of you – and have seen myriad headlines and multitudinous news
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The World’s End Missed By All
No-one noticed the end of the world yesterday. Earthly creatures skipped an atomic heartbeat in vague unease then, as if startled from a dream, resumed in tedium their virtual toils. At 9.28am GMT on September
Read moreCompanion Death
To Live is to Suffer Life is inevitably pain, sickness, death and decay. Everything is touched by the shadow of dissatisfaction, imperfection, disillusion. No one escapes. Sound familiar? Not just my pathetic publisher on a
Read moreDrugs Link to Beached Whales
Dr. Richard Mobey, Director of Cetacean Pharmacology at the Institute of Cetacean Research, has scorned popular theories on whale beaching. He favours a radical concept of ‘metabolic biomagnification’ to explain sudden lapses in judgment leading
Read moreGod Moves the Goalposts
Faltering faith goads God – bountifulness blamed God (via a spokesbeing, of course), via an unprecedented communication to the peoples of Earth, presaged increased stringency upon a plenteous Earth in the approaching era. It is
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Family Research Council ‘Eye to Eye’ with Al Qaeda: "Americans Infidel" A hitherto unknown pioneering dotcom is at the center of a religious and political storm Groundbreaking software, designed to extract news from ‘"background noise
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Child Wrong
Cowering in the afterglow of nuclear fear, a child – progeny of Western scientific democracy in the most egalitarian of lands – keenly anticipated twenty-first century utopia. Youthful optimism believed one more lifespan (his own)
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