Robert Raymond
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Technical writer from San Diego, CA.
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When Time Stood Still
Cassandra was young for a wizard. At 27 years old, she was the youngest wizard tutor for hundreds of miles. Some would call her a witch, but a name like that carried such a stigma. Witchcraft is an incredibly misunderstood form of magic. Thanks a lot, Salem.
By Robert Raymond5 years ago in Fiction
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I still remember the first dead body I saw in Afghanistan. I was in Kandahar, a southern city located in a valley that was basically a desert. We got the call that a helicopter crashed and everyone was dead. People don’t typically survive helicopter crashes, they tend to fall from the sky like a rock. We all gathered on the runway, it was a short walk since I worked in the hangar on helicopters. Once on the runway, everyone lines up shoulder to shoulder in something called a “ramp ceremony.” As a way to pay respect to the fallen. It is not nearly as ceremonious as when a body is returned in a casket draped with an American flag. Most of the time it is just a body bag being wheeled off the tarmac. Whatever is left of the aircrew, whatever parts they could find.
By Robert Raymond5 years ago in Serve
Torture chamber
Alice lied there on the table, hardly bound but sufficiently gagged. Her cries for help were futile, not that anyone was listening or could hear her. In her weakened state there was no fighting back. The room she was in felt like a torture chamber. Her vision was blurred and the room was spinning. Without her glasses the room was filled with familiar shapes and colors but anything beyond 2 feet was a mystery.
By Robert Raymond5 years ago in Fiction
