Peace and Quiet on Saturday Afternoon
24 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
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One step forward, two steps back.
We can say by metaphysics that our lives are planned and predictable, though seeing the events and situations in our lives in the reality of what they are ontologically there is no interpretation of them that implies greater meaning. From a nihilistic point of view we do not have any lives and there is no meaning. So this is about my views on life.
By the Skin of my Teeth. Chapter 5, 'Forgiveness'. Final chapter, Last part.
18 Oct 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
FORGIVENESS His face aged and weatherworn, Johnny stood at the once doorway of his burned out house. Twenty years ago he had come in from the cold. He had survived these twenty years by tolerating his specialist doctors’ incipient madness’s. Mia was...
By the Skin of my Teeth, A Story about Resilience and Victory. Chapter 4, Part 3.
18 Oct 2020 6 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
Johnny rested for a short time more. The light of Israel shone through swinging glass doors a few metres away. More invalids needed their time and he took up space there. He stood up and ate cereal from a tray and arranged a set of crutches from the...
By the Skin of my Teeth, A Story about Resilience and Victory. Chapter 4, Part 2.
14 Oct 2020 14 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
His real job began. The transport helicopters supplied were top of the line and brand new. They held sixteen persons in the hold behind pilot and engineer. He was to clock up six return flights to a freighter off shore at India. His human cargo assi...
By the Skin of my Teeth, A Story about Resilience and Victory. Chapter 4, Part 1.
6 Oct 2020 13 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
DRAFT A vengeance for the protection of Mia took him to Waaihoek Island. He camped rough and watched a Kenyan runaway named Clay, to see that he did not get too close to her. Not only that there was living in the camp a meditating healer with a boozy...
By the Skin of my Teeth, a story of resilience and victory; Chapter 3, Part 3.
26 Sep 2020 8 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
He made his way back home again. He lodged with past school friends who were studying for their university degrees. Their house was a large and busy place with six people living in it. He still had some money left. Evan was exhorting him to do somet...
By the Skin of my Teeth, Chapter 3 Part 2.
20 Sep 2020 19 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
John waited in queue with a ticket to Tokyo, Japan, and a transfer follow through to New Delhi, India. He used the last funds on his master card to do it. They were the only two tickets he could get that day. The plane departed with a fatigued and d...
By the Skin of my teeth, A novel. Chapter three, part one.
7 Sep 2020 29 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
ENTERPRISE No-one can follow such a life-changing career without causing suspicion in their peers. By the time he was nineteen years old, Johnny's trial sentenced a sarcastic emphasis. The vagaries of his career were broad and directionless. Over th...
Three Poems
28 Aug 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
1. Have you seen him? He paints the colours into the day. At dawn, somewhere, everywhere, Time and place are consistent. If you don't, do not cast much worry over it, I wouldn't call it luck. Only the baddest talent, To go foraging for instants and i...
By the Skin of my Teeth, A novel about resilience and victory. Chapter Two Part Five.
23 Aug 2020 23 minute read 0 comments Dove Grey
A governmental car drove to a stop at the pavement outside a Manhattan hotel. A messenger showed Johnny out of it and across the pavement. The survivor let way through a marble foyer and into an old elevator with sliding cage door. Into a higher room...
