Ben Smith
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Poems and stories.
A person of advanced years will have developed a certain perspective on the events that have brought him or her to that point.
One tends to shred away unimportant things and to dwell on what it was that has moulded one's character. As such, a senior's thoughts become the most personal of spaces. It takes, perhaps, reckless courage to expose those distilled memories for others to examine. Only a small number of survivors into elderhood...
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In his saga of a probable life of Quetzalcoatl of Mexico, Ben Nuttall-Smith gives life to scenes of Vikings, Irish monks, North American early peoples and Toltecs through his painter's eyes via his much research into local flora and fauna. His action-filled, often lethal encounters with varying dialogues spin from poems to prayers in Latin and other rituals, until the reader's imagination is fed enough to feel seasick on the Atlantic, or taste strange...
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Barriers and traps erected in the mind are more pernicious than brick walls.
Torn from his parents' fairy-garden by the Blitz, Ben is, dragged through childhood horrors, ending up in the New World. It turns out to be more of the same. Sadistic members of a religious order, debilitating family battles, being punched and kicked to near death in the US south, driven into the deep dungeons of his mind by officious school administrators, and then destroyed...