For decades, Jim carried the badge, sworn to protect and to fight back the darkness that preyed on others. But what happens when the darkness takes root inside the protector himself? This raw and deeply personal memoir traces the descent of a warrior into the abyss of trauma, rage, and despair—and the unexpected redemption that […]
My research began in late 2023. I had started writing a short story drawn from the final years of my twenty-two-year career as a police officer—a raw account of my battle with complex PTSD. That struggle had driven me to question the very essence of life: its purpose, its origins, and why existence unfolded as […]
The movie Red One on Amazon feels like a door quietly swung back to the oldest winter road, before candles and carols, back when the year died roaring in the dark and the people answered with fire. It remembers what the season was in the Germanic and Scandinavian nights: Yule, not as decoration, but as a truce […]
Every world has its wanderers, its dreamers, and its quiet travelers between layers of existence. Some are born with deeper shadows. Some walk with a second presence at their side. Some dream in symbols older than language. In the old stories these rare individuals were called Vessels, not because they held anything divine, but because […]
Before the first light carved its name across the dark, the universe shaped itself around a single idea. Existence is layered. Not simple. Not flat. It unfolds like a living tree whose roots drink from the Void and whose crown brushes the Celestial heights. In the oldest stories this structure is called Yggdrasil. The World […]
They say the universe began with light, a spark, a flash, a moment of blinding birth. But that is what the light wants you to believe. Light is always the first to name itself. It arrives loudly, dramatically, claiming it was here before anything else. It wasn’t. Before the first flare, before the first heat, […]
I have always been of a mind to see the patterns beneath things, the hidden formulas in film, television, and literature. I prefer to be shown what is unfolding, not told. I crave a mystery, a twist that lingers just beyond reach. Most of what passes for storytelling today follows the same well-worn path, and more often than not, […]