Archive - Dynamic Creed (Fiction)

A Heart of Broken Bullets

Broken or whole, any kid who dropped their sig on a military contract knows it starts with seared, blistered memory of Sergeant Generic Drill screaming…

Apr 16 •

Victor D. Sandiego

The Final Resurrection of Mr. Bethany

Before Lazarus rolled out of bed, he peeked through the weave of his rough blanket to see if he was still dead. He could tell by the color of the walls.

Apr 2 •

Victor D. Sandiego

March 2024

Surely, no fatalist will take the bet that he will fly through the window glass

Mar 26 •

Victor D. Sandiego

Nothing As It Seems

They at last noticed Donald staring and told him to go back to sleep until his deadness could sit up in its own crate

Mar 12 •

Victor D. Sandiego

February 2024

The Last Imitation of February

Oh, what even a morbid imagination couldn’t have mustered just a year ago

Feb 27 •

Victor D. Sandiego

Shadows of Dusty Rain

It may not have been as they deeply wished, not as they had once revered...

Feb 13 •

Victor D. Sandiego

President is Dead

What can we in the future say for a long ago November day on which a schoolboy stood on the edge of the playground and watched his classmates mock a…

Feb 6 •

Victor D. Sandiego

January 2024

The Curious Residual Wisdom of Theodore Walsh

There we were, my spirit guide and I, on the western road without a map. And before we could transfer my residual wisdom offshore, my old hitman jumped…

Jan 23 •

Victor D. Sandiego

September lay in ruins as it ran out of days

Jan 16 •

Victor D. Sandiego

The River Wide and Steady

Afternoon gray cloud light. Dark blue river, broad, calm. A grandson with a fatal wish. A failed wish. The worst kind.

Jan 9 •

Victor D. Sandiego

December 2023

The Long Imprisonment of David Robert Jones

To tap the bars of the prisoner confined to the other skull

Dec 5, 2023 •

Victor D. Sandiego

November 2023

Why I Don’t Write Poetry

A thousand faces covered in habitual landslides

Nov 28, 2023 •

Victor D. Sandiego

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