Tag: Martyrdom

The Ghosts At The Door Of The Church

By Eric Le Roy

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Content 18+ I used to ask myself a question which, though I now know my choice, continues to nibble at me like mice in the basement of my psyche. The question was this: If I had the opportunity to live the life of every human being who ever existed – one by one – would I? I test my memory, twisting road that it … Read the rest

The Rational Monster

 

By Eric Le Roy

Aubade by Louis MacNeice

Having bitten on life like a sharp apple

Or, playing it like a fish, been happy,

Having felt with fingers that the sky is blue,

What have we after that to look forward to?

Not the twilight of the gods but a precise dawn

of sallow and grey bricks, and newsboys crying war.

 

Content 18+ Years ago my generation was … Read the rest