Weekly Blog: 3/1/20
The Wine of Creation
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“The Fourth Stooge,” published in Sand Hills.
“I felt as if I pulled the trigger for a million years. But only three bullets went into his head. The warmth in my insides swam upward and the sandy sphere that encircled the world collapsed upon itself, leaving only the edges of the sun that now burned with a fiery blackness.”
“Nothing need exist. Not one thing. Yet here I am, and here we are in this violent and beautiful universe.”
A tribute to my Poppy, the father of my father.
The Wine of Creation
“The Fourth Stooge,” published in Sand Hills.
Adhuka Al-Amit, an Islamic fighter, lies on his death bed. He relates a final story to an embedded reporter who must come to terms with the impossibilities of time, brutalities of war, and possibilities of love.
“Nothing need exist. Not one thing. Yet here I am, and here we are in this violent and beautiful universe.”
A satellite, made to scan the universe for images of the origin of existence, instead floats blindly in space, thinking, wondering, and pondering its fate.
“It is both a technical and creative process to capture the social dynamics of Hell.”
A ‘damnologist’ of Hell seeks to find out more about Glarayn Glarayn, a fallen angel whose followers of Hell seek something beyond their tortured existence within the Underworld.
Adventures of a Trail Stooge follows The Esteemed Stooge, Sir Charles Guilons on his thru hike of the Appalachian Trail. Starting atop Springer Mountain in Georgia, Sir Stooge makes his way over 2,000 miles of earth to summit the beautifully lonesome Mount Katahdin in Maine.
Check out “The Fourth Stooge” and Chris’ other published short stories, “Infrared,” and “Hell’s Heresiarch.”