Naveen.

Dragging himself to the shoreline at midnight, he labored to turn his sodden draped body around in the waves gently carressing the moonlit shore, glancing at the corspe he’d just made. He stood shakily upright, pausing only to admire the bedraggled state of his frockcoat, richly embroidered sleeves pouring with seawater. Sighing warily, as if […]

Two Anchors.

My Brother, the Handsome One. He who lays rotting in the ground these past 13 years. He had the truth of it. The bitter truth that now, as he damn well prophesied when liquored up and popular on pay-day, has eventually come to pass… His last words to me, upon this cursed Earth, while he […]

Once More, Under The Black.

Black Sails is a Starz Cable TV production I have followed avidly since it’s inception. Set twenty years prior to the events of Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel Treasure Island, it charts the rise to power (and high seas infamy) of a certain Long John Silver (compellingly played by Luke Arnold). It premiers it’s fourth and […]