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I prayed with inward feverishness for the officers to drop the paternal talk and threats and instead take up the bludgeon, to flog them with rusty…
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The Souvlaki Guardians
The only reason arphades are so resoundingly stupid is because they’re so clever.
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Grivas
The commander glared down upon us through his red-tinted sunglasses. “Somebody discharged in the showers,” he finally said. “Obviously whoever did it…
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The Equipment Officer
The more he shouted, the more his blood-engorged vessels bulged out on his forehead, and the more he was at peace.
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The Conscription Officer
We then each had to strip to our underwear and stand before a panel of moribund health professionals with dark sagging pouches under their eyes who…
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August 2024

Why I Enlisted in the Cyprus Army
I also knew I had better odds of killing or getting killed on a weekend drive to the beach than while in the army. As for willingly subjecting myself to…
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The French Connection
an olympic objectification of man and manhood
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Olympicus Interruptus
Corporate coitus and its earthly delights
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July 2024

The Passing of the Torch
He is fine, my good sir. Most fine indeed. Most magnificently, gloriously fine. He is just nursing himself back to health from some minor injuries that…
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The Barbarous and the Bloodthirsty
why Cyprus is the most surreal place on the planet today
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The Flag in Red, White, and Blood
This weekend, in unison like an ancient Greek chorus, prominent liberals and Democrats tweeted that they were deeply distressed to hear about the…
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Rogue 7 - James Joyce
The 12 types of people who should not read Ulysses
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