Battle the Bard
Peter BilesNotes from a small-town storyteller on life, culture, and faith, plus some original creative writing.
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In this luminous darkness,
I am a shadow-speckled swimmer,
Finger in the God-Man’s side,
Who hauls me to shore, my index
a fleshy hook, but
Who is doing the fishing? All I know is I don’t, and won’t,
Let go.
Style or Story?
I didn’t think of genre as a kid who liked to read, but looking back, I was drawn to a couple of distinct categories: Fantasy and adventure fiction. Redwall, Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings, Robert Louis Stevenson’s Kidnapped, and most...
Rainbow Trout
I decided to talk to the fisherman on the north bank of the river. This happened right after an encounter with sunlight in the local diner, where for a moment, everything in my torpid life was wonderful and even danced with the brilliance....
Mulberry Wine
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God forgives you.
Do you forgive you?
Or do the mulberries
Rot on the branch,
Gone uneaten, not pressed
Into party wine?
Go...
Am I an AI?
Oh, shoot. Am I an AI? Always trying to boil down the world into a bullet-point list, have it shed its complexity, assume a gross skeleton of its original glory?
Yikes. Am I the computational culprit? Data in, data out, whatever pleases m...
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Fiction writer and professor from Oklahoma. Forthcoming books: Stylus Mang: A Novel (2027) & The Antarctic Dream: A Novella (2027).
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