Where War Stories has brought me

[War Stories, an important microcosm of thought and history]

Dr. Byron Petrakis' class War Stories at Chester College of New England has to be what I would consider one of the best examples of a perfect curriculum. Although the subject matter of this class cannot be enjoyed by all as it only as good as a person finds fit to do so. If you are interested in history you will like the class, if not then maybe you should look elsewhere for credits and knowledge.
Personally the class expanded my idea of story telling with Norman Mailer's Naked and the Dead, Graham Greene's The Quiet American and my second time around reading and The Iliad and All Quiet on the Western Front.
From there it helped me develop my own work in the form of an unfinished, but on the way to being-novella ("The Black Wolves Contingent") for my senior project. As well as recently inspire a new piece I am working on in the form of a short story: "Mercenarism, the Art of."
I have gone on to continue personal research on the history of ancient, modern and guerilla warfare and its effects culture and society.

Portraits of Portraits

It is a universe looking inwards
at itself and seeing everything,
and seeing nothing.

Sun Baked Tiles in Desert Sands

My car is a dead shell,
a turtle with no legs.

The world is bleeding and we are drowning

My screenplay is now 75% complete. Hoping to have my friends Marie and Joshua flesh out some of my ideas in a series of commissioned concept art.

Below are some ideas I've sketched out for one of the main characters. I have a thing with body armor you see...

Manchester Diorama Part III

(Flashback- 3/21/07)

"Manipulation and speculation of the world is the wasted time of a failed voyeur."