Roi Namur - The Novel
Hi, it has been a while since I posted because frankly I ran out of humorous and informative stories. In the mean time I’ve been working on writing my first novel (actually it is not the first novel I ever started but hope to actually finish it). To that end, I’ve decided to start a new feature on Roi Rat journal. That feature is that once a month I will add a new chapter from my book and the following will be my first installment. I’ll attempt to add one around the first of the month so look for the next one on March 1, 2010 AD (CE). This is only a very rough draft of the book so once it is a best seller you can look back at the draft and see how much it has changed. Without further ado here is the book:
Today is a good day, I don’t think I even need my meds. I am sitting outside at a table in the “Rest Home” where I have been staying since I left Roi. They call it a “Rest Home” but let’s not fool ourselves, it is a psychiatrict hospital. It is located outside Tucson, Arizona. I think they sent me to this particular home because the desert seems as far away from Roi as one could get. It is a sunny day in early March and they’ve said they may even take some of us to a Spring Training game later. My doctor has suggested that it would be therapeutic for me to write about my time on Roi, that perhaps if I wrote in chronilogical order of my time there that somehow I would remember what really happened and not what he calls my lunatical ravings. I wish to God that what I remember happening as clear as remember getting out of bed this morning and putting on my slippers was only my imagination, that my friends did not suffer the horrors that they encountered, that these eyes never saw what they saw that I never had stood on the dark chasm of death until my rescue. Well, I will start at my first day on Kwajalein atoll and we’ll see where this story takes us. Maybe I do need my meds today. Read more »