Aaron Michael Grant
Bio
Grant retired from the United States Marine Corps in 2008 after serving a combat tour 2nd Tank Battalion in Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is the author of "Taking Baghdad," available at Barnes & Noble stores, and Amazon.
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The Departure of Empathy
Empathy: “the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.”
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Humans
The Old Man's Mine
When he got out of his bed, the cold of the North Sea cottage invaded everything. When the wool was pulled off, the warm bed chilled, and he had to move fast. With the customary sigh he began his day covered from head to toe. Not just when he went to sleep, but all the time. Head with the ever-present beanie (even when sleeping), toes with a double pair of wool socks (also when sleeping), underclothes from the wool under-sweater to the wool over-sweater, and lastly his inside tweed jacket. And shoes, always shoes for the tamped earth below that reminded him he was alive.
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Families
Faces of the Deep
The children never liked playing at the pond. Something happened at that frozen place that scared the hell out of them, and the parents played it off as mere enthusiasm. The frightening rumors spread like wildfire, and the little ones believed it. The ice skates were stored year after year in every village home rusting as they spoke of the faces they had seen: faces in the deep.
By Aaron Michael Grant4 years ago in Fiction
