Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea. – Samuel Johnson, collator of the first dictionary. I don’t know how true this is for other people, but it’s certainly true for me. It has been brought to my attention by a friend, (you know who you …
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All the World’s a Grave
“Kill them all!” Ben Mason, Children of The Glyph. We’ll see how morbid this gets, but bear with me because we’re diving into Character Death. The function of this story trope is to be evocative, to punch through the hardy soul of you Reader, Dear Reader, after a long and bloody struggle (at least in …
Mightier Is The Pen 