Charlie Freelander

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A haunting story about a ghost of a Roman legionary who was never released from his watch, my story the Sentinel and Bodhisattva is available in this number.

About foggy borderlands of Britain and Scotland, about legac and history lingering and never going away - and my favorite theme, redemption.

Short story idea folder

Playing a lighthouse keeper! A good opportunity to write in an inspiring environment.

Thinking about how waste, wear and tear of machinery and fueling/ballasting/topping the oil works at a ghostly submarine.

At least the ghosts don't crap.

Sights from Åland, an island group in the Baltic Sea that houses the remains of a Russian garrison and a medieval Franciscan monastery, a restored medieval castle, beautiful churches and much more. Baltic heritage FTW!

Yay! My Finnish short story about a ghost submarine was shortlisted in a contest!

I'm currently writing a novel based on it, a tribute to the maritime legacy of the Baltic and a melancholy elegy for men lost at sea and lingering in purgatory who get a second chance.

Visby has been a Viking trading post, Hanseatic town, privateer stronghold and Danish fort.

It remains magical.

Absorbing the atmosphere and researching for my coming book.

Thinking about how to make the dichotomy submarine-destroyer a cosmic allegory

In the Polish hotel: a military history museum and, on the menu, pig in five different ways

I wonder why I find such a comfort in immersing myself in long-lost times (such as tumultuous times of ancient Rome) when I just want to turn the present off . "This, too, shall pass", maybe.

Maybe it's no coincidence that captain Ahab, Milton's Lucifer, Harry Bosch and gunslingers of a fading era are among my favorites.

My protagonists are very different in many ways, but they always end up being defiant and stubborn in some way to an extreme degree, often paying a terrible price and/or acting destructive because of it. They are raw, intense and larger than life. They *refuse*.

My winter hometown!

Me six years ago at the Sea of Cortez, protecting the vaquita dolphins.

I always love tragic monsters, if story calls for them.

At least they exist as this is fantasy. I haven't decided yet, I'll see when I get there :)

Possibly he'll talk with the gods themselves? The Pythagorean community (who is very Apollonian) will need some Dionysian raw energy when they'll be persecuted in the future. The elderly Pythagoras will wonder if he should have done more to discourage his disciples from deifying him.

It takes place in ancient Kroton, Magna Grecia. A young man who was raised in the Pythagorean community feels restless and conflicted and sneaks out at night. He encounters a group of Dionysian revelers at the hills. He'll try to integrate the Dionysian and Apollonian perspective.

I'm still in the brainstorming and research stage but will probably start writing today

Aaand looks like I'm writing a short story featuring an elderly Pythagoras.

Two weeks to get it done if I want to get it done for the contest I got the idea from. Unlikely to the standard I'd be satisfied with.

OMG fuck yeah! My short story The Sentinel and Boddhisattva was accepted to be published in a magazine!

The story is about the ghost of a Roman legionnaire, about how history lingers, about redemption and karmic debts.

So we are having a conversation about which dinosaur took a largest dump with my husband.

Thinking about how a medieval Danish knight ends up being a privateer.

I should (re)read some classics in military/naval setting to have good examples about juggling multiple POV in a large group. Usually they have a distant omniscient narrator that doesn't deep dive into anyone's POV though. I want to jump into people's heads in my ghostly submarine on a mission story

So of course now I have an urge to write a historical novel about Mark Antony.

This aqueduct carried water to Almunecar - or Sexi Firmum Iulium as it was called in the Roman times.

Is "military ghost fiction" a genre? Because as of late, that is shaping up to be my niche!

Can anyone recommend books about Soviet WW2 submarine crews? More focused on the operations, tactics, organisation, culture and demographics than sub technology (that info is easily available).

Is it normal to be moved to tears by your own story? 😂 (Rhetorical question, I don't care if I'm normal or not).

Finished the short story The Sentinel and the Boddhisattva, and Quintus Flavius is finally at well deserved rest.

YouTube video by Unseen Trailers Das Boot (1981) REMASTERED TRAILER [HD]

Watched the director's cut. Damn what a great movie it is and damn was it awful to serve at a submarine.