The Lavender Orchid (Short Story) - 7/28/2008 3:16:59 PM
Good write. Great details gives great credibility. Liz
The Lady Katie (Short Story) - 7/28/2008 3:01:55 PM
this is a great write. I loved the way Grace handled the "grumpy" old man. such an uplifting story in the end. Liz
The Lady Katie (Short Story) - 7/16/2008 9:21:27 PM
Chuck,
This is a wonderful write, can see why you're proud. Well done!
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
The Lady Katie (Short Story) - 7/15/2008 4:44:08 PM
This was lovely Chuck... makes me begin to believe in ole men again...hehe... Guess that wonderful wife of yours has taught you a few things about women... :-))
linda
The Lady Katie (Short Story) - 7/15/2008 3:21:43 PM
I think it is a great story that your wife wrote too. It is inspiring and it sounds as if it saved that man's life from a life of loneliness and gave him insight to go on and go boating to the day dreams of live.
The Lavender Orchid (Short Story) - 7/13/2008 5:12:42 AM
Wonderful story, Chuck; bravo!
(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :D
The Lavender Orchid (Short Story) - 7/12/2008 4:10:22 PM
Lovely. lindalaw
Sneak Attack (Short Story) - 4/6/2008 1:25:09 PM
lol. I don't like the attack of the mosquitoes either. And yes, you were just as vulnerable as Pearl Harbor. lol. Liz
Sneak Attack (Short Story) - 4/5/2008 1:31:19 PM
Good afterthought with the screens, Chuck :o) Don't forget to put them up early next year!
Thank goodness you kept your sense of humor after this; would hate to have missed you sharing with us!
Micke
Sneak Attack (Short Story) - 3/22/2008 9:19:15 PM
oooh, I do hate those nasty things--well written!
Sneak Attack (Short Story) - 3/22/2008 11:34:56 AM
Awwwwww...been there done that.sitting with a face that looks like someone had given me a black eye...mossie got hold of me on my cheekbone the only part that was not covered....and drained my blood from there....lol!!
Happy scratching...was waiting for mor stategic parts to be attacked...oerrrrrrr :) ...lucky you Chuck!!
Love Tinka
Stampede (Short Story) - 8/6/2007 6:29:34 PM
The action was wonderfully alive and intense as was the imagery.
I could see it, feel it, smell it. AND, I wanted to know more about Abel. Who was he? What was his inner world during all of this? Was he a loner? Did he want the money to go back and build a life with someone who was waiting for him? I.e., what were his personal stakes (risks) being out there in the stampede? See, Chuck. You hooked me, and I wanted more. Xlent! Jerelyn
Stampede (Short Story) - 8/6/2007 3:36:16 PM
Chuck,
Having been in five (thank God, WEAK) tornadoes, you've painted the scene so the reader is in the storm. Great job.
(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.
Stampede (Short Story) - 7/27/2007 5:40:37 AM
You've painted the scene quite powerfully, Chuck, I almost felt I was there. Really liked this story, and amazingly, I just wrote a poem about a tornado in a far differently setting.
Stampede (Short Story) - 7/25/2007 7:59:37 PM
Bravo, really liked this one. Excellent narrative and the imagery was outstanding.
Stampede (Short Story) - 9/21/2006 8:17:02 AM
Excellent story, Chuck! Well done! :)
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/31/2008 5:51:28 AM
This is an exciting and courageous effort on your part, Chuck! Congratulations. I'll be checking out your website with interest...having been born and raised in South St. Louis; still have lots of family in the area. "Rollin' On The River Magazine" LOVE IT!!
Blessings - Micke
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/27/2008 5:25:37 AM
Congrats to you Chuck...it is great to read that you are successfully creating a place of not only work, but a place where one can read others work...wishing you All the best on your new magazine...
Art Sun...
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/16/2008 10:08:52 AM
Awesome. I live in the springfield mo area so I am close. I would like to sign up for your magazine. so start a list. Liz
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/11/2008 8:29:51 PM
Wonderful Chuck.. I rec'd your message and now this one, and like what you are doing. I've always said I am nota poet..there are many wonderful ones on this site; however...I'd like to look thru my little stack and possibly submit something to you... Hope you get alot of great response as well... this is what I meant by working together....helping one another... :-)) lindalaw
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/11/2008 4:45:18 PM
Very nifty, Chuck! I will check out your web site. I loved St. Louis when I spent my junior year of high school there. Clayton, MO, was my favorite--so beautiful in the fall. . . and Forest Park in the winter! A dream come true for a California kid!
JUST DO IT! (Article) - 7/10/2008 3:22:49 PM
I was right, that twinkle in your eyes, told me that you are a wise and courages person, I wish you nothing but the greatest of success and blessings on your new endevour, Chuck! Should I ever want to publish some of mine, I would like them to be done by your new company. Blessings friend! Jasmin Horst
The Wall And PTSD (Article) - 7/2/2008 10:34:01 AM
CONTROL in caps is something PTSD sufferers feel they must maintain or they will be destroyed or destroy someone else, this is one of the very best articles I've ever read on it Chuck. Unfortunately some live most of their lives behind the walls and others never learn how to tear the walls down. I'm afraid the tip of the iceburg is all that is visible now with our vets.
The Wall And PTSD (Article) - 5/29/2008 5:05:47 PM
Very courageous for you to offer yourself up as an example. The vulnerability that opens you up can be very scarey. Keep going. It's worth the effort. You deserve the best. Liz
The Wall And PTSD (Article) - 5/27/2008 8:38:41 PM
wow, such an overwhelming thing--and how do i help my student diagnosed with ptsd?? tough stuff
Cowboys Are Special (Article) - 5/27/2008 7:27:18 PM
The resultant sense of acute alienation is a monster, for those who suffer from PTSD. This is a powerful article.
The Wall And PTSD (Article) - 5/27/2008 6:24:32 PM
Now that we have spent four hundred billion on the war, maybe it's is time to spent the same amount to help all those poor veterans that came back, they've done they're tour, now let the government do theirs to help, it would be the only decent thing, or moral thing to do would'nt it Chuck? Bless you, and may you and all your friends heal! Jasmin Horst
Another Georgie Slapping Our Soldiers (Article) - 5/4/2008 8:38:29 PM
Slaps in the face for everyone. They've always shown equal treatment in that regard at least. Many of us could probably use one to shake off our torpor, but the soldiers...
If I now said "Support our Troops," would I be a bleeding-heart wack0? Decency shouldn't be that complicated.
The Evil One (A Novel Synopsis) (Article) - 5/4/2008 11:57:12 AM
*curls up in the corner, pulls the flag over his head, and starts mumbling in something that sounds like Pig Hebrew*
What sort of deviant America-hating mind comes up with scenarios like this? Of course it wouldn't sell, not with a depressing ending like that anyway. Perhaps you could publish it in a very short pamphlet form and distribute it in your local "free speech" zone.
Just please leave me and the rest of the Sane people alone, so we can pray for your soul in peace and quiet... free from worry.
The Evil One (A Novel Synopsis) (Article) - 4/27/2008 1:11:20 PM
Surely such a thing would be unthinkable...democracy in the USA unsinkable... the poisoned waters of fundamentalist theocracy unthinkable... (can you hear the theme of Rocky Horror here?!)
I hear a musical coming on here, Chuck - an underground musical. May I contribute to the lyrics? I'm thinking of a theme that will surpass even 'The Producers'!
You've been around, my friend - you have my respect - yours is a voice to which a host of your fellow citizens should be listening. You are the authentic voice of free America. Keep it going my friend.
The Valley Of The Shadow... PTSD (Article) - 4/6/2008 1:36:11 PM
Keith really sums up what we need to do. But how do we do it. We need to be in the streets protesting the war, the price fixed gas prices, inflation and recession from the out of control economy. the list goes on. God Bless you Chuck. Liz
A War Story (Article) - 3/13/2008 4:24:25 AM
USMC ..MAG-16: MARBLE MT.68-69.I had a bro 0311 was wounded at Chu LAI..he was being treated at the Navy hospital across from us..air conditioning..and the chow was free of bugs, cooked and better than ours...I was with zulu company..when we marched to bottom of marble mt where marines with recoiless guns were overran by the NVA and VC..
they were trying to free the VC?NVA prisoners the army had between us and the mountain itself..I lost a lot of bros at MAG-16 from rocket and mortar attacks,down choppers etc..
I also went out on non crew door gunner duites on huey's and 53's with H&MS-16..not my choice but guners were in short demand..take about a rush....
I checked my awards, medals from my service in the USMC and I have counted ten so far,,it was a long time ago.
My heros are the bros that didn't make it back alive.
Welcome home all. Semper Fi.
The Evil One (A Novel Synopsis) (Article) - 2/26/2008 10:00:46 AM
Go for it!!
Love Tinka
The Evil One (A Novel Synopsis) (Article) - 2/25/2008 9:48:26 PM
it could work1 you are right though-better hustle!
The Valley Of The Shadow... PTSD (Article) - 2/19/2008 12:57:59 PM
Politicians will never permit a common, widespread understanding of the consequences of war, Chuck. If they did, their power to instigate war would be revoked.
Dear God, US and British politicians have turned war into a video game in the minds of the public and even tried to ban the filming of the returned body bags (in the US). Always remember that the mentally retarded fool behind this war AVOIDED SERVICE - HE'S A COWARD AND A LIAR.
PLEASE wake up, all you decent Americans: whether it's a Christian crusade combined with an oil grab, or the demolition of a theocracy - it's WRONG! If you suffer now, imagine the horrors arising from an invasion of Iran...for you and those people that the lunatic Christian-Taliban in the Whitehouse have convinced you should be bombed. or do you want to lay the lives of your children down for oil profits?!
Please reclaim America for sanity and peace.
The Valley Of The Shadow... PTSD (Article) - 2/19/2008 10:50:33 AM
Thank you for this--well written and straight from the heart--
The Valley Of The Shadow... PTSD (Article) - 2/19/2008 6:06:28 AM
well said
The Festering Wound of PTSD (Article) - 2/11/2008 2:24:47 PM
Chuck, frightenly true article. I had heard though that current soldiers coming out of Afganistan and Iraq don't have PTSD, but instead have a personality disorder and therefore they don't qualify for any treatment. And it's a pity because most Americans whether they are for or against the war want the vets and soldiers to have what they need. Alas, I don't believe that will happen under this administration. Great write. Liz
Mission Accomplished!?!?!?! (Article) - 12/25/2007 4:04:50 PM
We haven't had a real war since World War II. Real wars end. When it's over, all of the bad guys and their supporters are dead. You don't see people running around Berlin and Tokoyo with AK47's, RPGs and setting off car bombs, do you? Somehow we decided that we're so strong, we can fight nice wars were only the bad guys get hurt. War is a horrible nightmare and it should be avoided at almost all costs. But if there is no other choice, you have to do whatever it takes to win, that's what those people who killing our brave soldiers are doing. They're planning on winning, and they ain't a bit wooried about what people might say about them. There are only two out comes in war, victory and defeat. It you're not doing what it takes to be the victors, then you are certainly going to be the defeated.
New Definitions For America (Article) - 11/12/2007 8:27:52 AM
Indeed it is sad in so many ways. Keep telling the truth Chuck.
Mission Accomplished!?!?!?! (Article) - 11/12/2007 8:03:40 AM
You are absolutely RIGHT and please keep writing your conscience Chuck, many are listening, hopefully some are changing their blind patriot views.
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 12/5/2008 11:36:04 AM
Wit wonderful and stimulating... "How Do I Loathe Thee" shines.
Parody is a good way to practice poetic composition.
I salute You, Poet.
In admiration,
Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU
The Blues Guitar (A Sonnet) (Poetry) - 11/18/2008 9:52:18 AM
and ain't that the truth! love the blues and the feeling this poem evokes...enjoyed you Thank You(thank you)
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 11/15/2008 6:05:37 PM
quite full of wrath..nice command of anger..........
Life Is Like A Shooting Star (A Sonnet) (Poetry) - 11/15/2008 5:53:11 PM
i did something similar while your is focused mine is dynamic...
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 9/26/2008 5:48:26 PM
Thank you for sharing your wit and humor, Chuck. Love and peace to you,
Regis
Dream Team (A Redneck Sonnet) (Poetry) - 9/9/2008 1:14:02 PM
irresistable to a kentuckian...yep, thanks, this is funny.
Ancient Love (Poetry) - 9/9/2008 1:12:26 PM
and isn't it nice to know that if nothing has changed from those two long ago poets' love thoughts they shared to now and the impression you have passed on here that given another millenium or two that still love will be known to those future poets who stumble upon some crumpled document somewhere with enough ink there that it can be read in full illuminated glory and wow them with the fact that in even 5000 years' passage love never changes. beautiful.
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 9/9/2008 1:02:40 PM
this made me smile and I think Elizabeth Barrett Browning would have too, as I believe she was a good sport and would not mind a parody of this sort of perfectedness.
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 9/4/2008 3:45:53 PM
LOL this rocks Chuck, I think Ms. Browning would forgive you and possibly even smile.
The Final Journey (Poetry) - 8/28/2008 9:13:44 PM
This is fantastic! What what a beautiful, flowing elegy. I just learned something form your flowing style too.
How Do I Loathe Thee (Poetry) - 8/28/2008 9:11:19 PM
As 7 up loathes sprite! LOL! Delighful word play. Great fun. Love it.
Hole In The Sky (Poetry) - 8/9/2008 10:35:05 AM
Absolutely. Liz
Mountain Winter (Poetry) - 7/16/2008 10:00:34 AM
The imagery painted here is amazing. Totally captivating. Liz
Hole In The Sky (Poetry) - 7/16/2008 4:49:21 AM
Dreams at times are reality.
Mountain Winter (Poetry) - 7/2/2008 8:56:23 PM
I truly understood what you were painting with words... saw it all, felt it too. lindalaw
Hole In The Sky (Poetry) - 7/2/2008 8:55:41 PM
I liked this very much. We are dreamers or we wouldn't be writing poetry like this... good work. lindalaw
Sleeping Beauty (Poetry) - 6/20/2008 7:17:00 AM
It just don't get no better'n this Chuck!!
Sleeping Beauty (Poetry) - 6/18/2008 10:51:38 AM
Truly a sweet write born of dreams; thank you for sharing, Chuck. Love and peace to you,
Regis
Make A Wish (Haiku) (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:18:11 PM
Do make wishes when I see them. Amazing sight lighting up the sky and racing toward earth at such a high speed.
Butterflies (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:17:04 PM
Butterflies, little spirits that come and let us know we are remembered.
War (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:16:06 PM
Many memorable words pertaining to life, like to see this write, it's different from all the romantic ones I read today. The upcoming election has me a little upset, don't know if the pres will do good or what? Will have to just wait and find out.
Amber Waves (Haiku) (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:14:16 PM
I was expecting an ocean haiku, but like this one too. Like to watch the clouds on a summer day and try to pick out things. Like to see the waves of wheat growing in the fields too. The corn is just yea high, but will grow fast. Noticed it today in my drive.
Our Alabaster Moon (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:12:54 PM
Very romantic work, and so therapeutic to me to read it. I love to see the full moons and to watch the shooting stars on a summer evening sitting outside til sleepytime. God Bless.
Sleeping Beauty (Poetry) - 6/10/2008 4:11:41 PM
Woke up 5:00 just in time for sunrise today, had to take cousin to Lebanon PA vets hospital for eye treatment 3/4 hour away. Could not sleep in but have no one to sleep in with anyway. Hubby died Aug 17 07, loneliness sets in especially at night. Not pitying myself just still grieving. Was told it could take up til 5 years. Good thereapy for me though reading these writes and yours is neat.
Our Alabaster Moon (Poetry) - 5/6/2008 10:33:05 AM
Wonderful connection. Romance at its best. Liz
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