Control

I had a debate with one of my writing buddies. We argued film versus page, what can be done with each and what cannot. It shocked me to learn he thought I preferred film because its an easier medium for storytelling. Before you form some half-cocked opinion, hear me out. In film, you have ten…

Superman is not real…

Christopher Reeves, bless his beautiful soul, is dead. Micheal Keaton didn't lose his parents. Affleck, Cain, Snipes, Routh, Bale - all actors. My point; the heroes who taught me what being a hero means are figments of someone's imagination. Does that make them less real? I say no. The lessons I learned from novels and…

Field of Aspen [from BTHOD: I – Rook]

"This book is titled Aspen Fields. It was written even before the first kings of men called themselves such, by a very old scholar known as Horrimone.” Na-zii looked around; clearly no one recognized the name. “He studied the history of races. He had hoped to find the beginning of life and in doing so,…

What does it all mean?

[To illustrate my point this piece will be unnecessarily purple, for Linda L.T. and all of like mind] Back and forth I go, fluttering between the wisdom of this sage and the insight of that, each change in direction only taking me further from certainty. 'Speak the language of thy peers' no, 'write to the…