D. J. Reddall

Joined June 2022

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I write because my time is limited and my imagination is not.

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The Prank
Your feelings do not matter to winter It has neither pity nor compassion; No smile will its icy visage splinter Nor will your pleas a path through it fashion
By D. J. Reddalla day ago in Poets
Misread
Many idiots Read my pale laundry as a Sign of surrender
By D. J. Reddall4 days ago in Poets
Back to Work
Donning the harness Following brief liberty Chaps all healthy hides
By D. J. Reddall7 days ago in Poets
The Varkaat. Top Story - January 2026.
I should have been afraid. Alright, I was afraid. But my fear was nothing compared to my shame. Watching her do her duty as a soldier, when I knew mine, made me feel like a fraud. She wasn't just efficient and organized and lethal. She killed our disgusting enemies with style. I was quite sure that she was showing off, just to, "help me to overcome my natural tendency to make anthropocentric judgments."
By D. J. Reddall8 days ago in Fiction
The Cult of the Antihero
Cult and culture spring from the same root Romans struggled to keep barbarism at bay Within themselves and their sprawling domain alike
By D. J. Reddall9 days ago in Poets
Interstices
Heretics between Days that are blessed and holy Lost, listless limbos
By D. J. Reddall10 days ago in Poets
Snow Hush
Winter is fluent in kinds of silence Utterly baffling to other times Of what sounds there are, the dog can make sense But they would mean nothing in other climes
By D. J. Reddall13 days ago in Poets
Camera Ready
What really matters Is how things appear to be On various screens
By D. J. Reddall14 days ago in Poets
The Defiant
All of the grim facts seem to conspire Against this mad impulse, to walk alone Through fresh snow and wind, a frozen wire
By D. J. Reddall20 days ago in Poets
Obstinate
Ash and snow mingle Winter's cold exhalation A lone ember glows
By D. J. Reddall22 days ago in Poets
Mix Opposites
Harmonize your parts: Feel with cool lucidity Think passionately
By D. J. Reddall23 days ago in Poets
For Prophet
Your trivial queries annoy the gods! Horse races, politics, lotteries, girls; I am not here to calculate the odds But to read the future as it unfurls
By D. J. Reddall23 days ago in Poets