The clouds covered the sky, a gray blanket over the Earth. A light breeze blew beneath the blanket, sending gray leaves and gray dust...

They predicted it would end soon One final boom to burn us all up. I stood atop a cliff looking over the ocean as the sun set for the...

In lax, liberal dirt, lean latchkey weeds oft sprout, tucked away from the soldierly nurseries and well-to-do pastures of the great city...

Born of the sea, and to return I shall. Marching to the shores and over stones, sinking into pits and finally getting my first taste of...

My naked body writhes in honey-dew sheets of sweat Despising its thought-existence and craving the softness of another body, Yet all that...

Quiet exhale. A breath. A sigh. The satisfaction of a job well done. Something dealt with, the chapter closed. A new line begun.

“When I was a child, if I had a problem I could not solve, I would not eat for three days until I had done it. You … You are not like...

May it ever be without company, Without impenetrable company, That so insults my individuality. Damp gravel under an open window, Sun...

To another day. Another tide that has buffeted and bashed and broken this base yet we stay resilient. Another lashing by Scylla and all...

Unwavering fecklessness, it seems becomes her- to the eye. Yet inside you’ll find peaches and cinnamon that appoints her sickeningly...

I went into the wine trade immediately after completing my degree in Biology at Sussex in 1979. Academically I had not been a model...

There is a weird mole on my side. A dot with another dot inside, there is something more to this than my other ones. One that seems to...

In response to Katy Harrison's excellent and thought-provoking article https://www.theelenchus.org/post/thoughts-on-the-portrayal-of-hist...

This post is largely speculative, and seeks to engage a sharing of ideas in terms of how we perceive and engage with historical figures....