Burning Books in a Brave New 1984 World “Those who don’t build must burn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 “One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them.” ― Aldous Huxley, Brave New World “Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth,…
Category: Literary Corner
America’s Prophet
Cormac McCarthy, The Last Great American Novelist, A Tribute Cormac McCarthy died at his home in Santa Fe last Tuesday, June 13, at the age of 89. He was our greatest living novelist, an apocalyptic prophet and diviner of violence, and will forever stand with the likes of Melville and Faulkner as the chief American…
Plans for my Short Stories/Novellas
When constructing the new blog I tried putting some of my short stories on a dedicated page like I did with the old blog but I did not like how they looked so I have decided to follow thru with a plan I have had for over a year now and that is to have…
In Memoriam: Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy, lauded author of ‘The Road’ and ‘No Country for Old Men,’ dies at 89 One of the greatest writers of the 20th and 21st century has left us folks. His novel Blood Meridian is in this writer’s humble opinion one of the finest western’s ever written and was a HUGE influence on me…
Bracken Called It (Again)
H/T WRSA Bracken Sends: Boarders Without Borders “The age old question ‘Does art imitate life or vice versa?’ when talking about how dystopian novels, some of them written over 40 years ago, apply to our modern world has become down right spooky!” -The Tactical Hermit, 2023.
The End of the Everyman
The End of the Everyman “Just stay quiet and you will be okay.” -Mohammad Atta, 11 September, 2001 Meet John Doe. He’s a solid citizen, if somewhat boring. He holds a steady job, one that isn’t exactly glamorous, but is of value to society. He has a supportive family and community, he…
Poem: Ode to Gefjon
Powerful prose from Seax.
Stealing chimes
Some Beautiful Prose from one of the best Meme artist around.
When Fiction Becomes Reality
Floating Migrant Camp Planned for Dorset In the dystopian novel Children of Men by P.D. James (published in 1992) the world in the year 2027 teeters on extinction as mass infertility plagues the globe and mass immigration threatens to destroy what is left of the U.K. The movie adaptation released in 2006 starring Clive Owen…
Two Rode Together
Oliver Loving and Charles Goodnight made history in 1866, and 120 years later Larry McMurtry made them legends The story of Loving and Goodnight influenced Texas Western writer Larry McMurtry to write one of the most authentic and influential western saga’s of our time, Lonesome Dove.