

I hope this finds you in good health and spirits! I know I've been very slack about posting at FS the past few years (outside of April, that is. perhaps, I'll convince myself that I have time enough to stick around through the year this time around. I've missed you! I'm back for more NaPoWriMo fun. Today the country store has no heater for old men to sit around and bullshoot (sells mucho beer and lotto tickets, though!) so let's see what Red the codger has to say,assuming he survives Covid-19. Red the evangelist in sheol, that shadowy nowhere beneath the world. Hence my membership in Fanstory, and an almost frantic outburst of writing bordering the incoherent.

Then I thought I wanted to spread my thoughts and notions,becoming in a fashion immortal, although I claimed at the time I wanted to join the ranks of writers I admired, and entertain the world. "bargain, depression and testing" stages of grief.Īdded to the denial and anger was living alone, and realizing my turn was coming soon.įirst I scrutinized my faith, then religion as a whole. A youth of poverty and years in the military left me hard enough to carry on, but I got hung up in the Nine years ago, I suffered the rapid fire losses of all my remaining family, my wife and mother. Shock, denial, anger, bargaining,depression,testing, acceptance.

I suspect it was a part of the "testing" phase that I slowed down and read the "Kubler-Ross stages of grief" chart, the
