Roy Stevens

Joined February 2023

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Just one bad apple can spoil a beautiful basket. The toxins seep throughout and...

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Why They Fought. Content Warning.
When he was seventy and I was thirty-one my dad finally told me about meeting the King. It wouldn’t surprise me to learn that he’d met Elvis; he encountered many celebrities in the latter stage of his first career, but that’s not the king I’m talking about. Way in the way back; even before Charles III’s mum Elizabeth II, her father George VI was King of Britain, Northern Ireland and all of the dominions. That’s the King to whom my dad was referring.
By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Families
One Weird Day. Top Story - June 2023.
*** Please bear with the endless-seeming exposition. It’s needed in order to set the stage*** I graduated from Grade 13. Where I come from you can’t do that anymore. In any case, getting up, eating breakfast and then heading off to a very old school building full of eighteen-year-olds from all parts of a city of about half a million people was, even back then, a weird way to start a day. But it was kinda cool too!
By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Confessions
From the Dark Deep
Leaping into the cobalt blue, the cool Coral Sea surrounds me. I dump the last bit of air from my B.C. and sink to the bright reef below. The friendly reef sharks join me hoping for a handout I won't provide.
By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction
Bahnhof
The toddler climbed off the bench, waddling toward the edge of the station platform just as the Passau bound train rounded the last curve. Occupied with the ticket agent his mother didn't notice.
By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction
No Mow May
Mike Singleton wrote a piece on the subject of "No Mow May' about two weeks earlier than this was published. I wasn't aware of Mike's piece or I certainly would have chosen an at least slightly different name; sorry about that Mike. Here's a link to Mr. Singleton's work, just in case you haven't seen it already: https://shopping-feedback.today/earth/no-mow-may%3C/p%3E%3C/a%3E%3Cdiv class="css-1htaxga-Flex">
By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction

He Finally Understood

****Warning, This Story Deals with Traumatic Personal Loss**** First, they saw its shining eyes in the headlights. She slowed to a stop and pushed the 'Hazard" button. He got out; walked forward through the rainy mist. It was still alive, a possum badly injured. "We'll call for help, " he told her as she came close and sighed.

By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction

Heroes?

"What if I reject Atticus Finch's definition of a hero, then?" "What... why? A hero is someone who knows he can't win but tries to help against the odds."

By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction

Under New Management

We'd spent four days in the dark under the Arctic ice pack tracking a Chinese ballistic missile sub. That's when the Chief of the Boat came to me ashen faced.

By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction

A Place I'd Like to Be Right Now

I wish it was time and I could be there right now, With salt of the sea and brimstone of guano, Deep in my throat and tasting somehow,

By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Poets

The New Olympians

And lo, through the veiled haze the people finally remembered the old ways of worship. Apollo awoke first before rousing Hera then Zeus. When mighty Zeus saw how humans had defiled his Earth, he angrily swept away the foulness, telling his people to befoul no longer.

By Roy Stevens3 years ago in Fiction