All posts by Eric Robert Nolan

Eric Robert Nolan graduated from Mary Washington College in 1994 with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology. He spent several years a news reporter and editorial writer for the Culpeper Star Exponent in Culpeper, Virginia. His work has also appeared on the front pages of numerous newspapers in Virginia, including The Free Lance – Star and The Daily Progress. Eric entered the field of philanthropy in 1996, as a grant writer for nonprofit healthcare organizations. Eric’s poetry has been featured by Dead Beats Literary Blog, Dagda Publishing, The International War Veterans’ Poetry Archive, and elsewhere. His poetry will also be published by Illumen Magazine in its Spring 2014 issue.

“There was a young lady named Bright …”

“There was a young lady named Bright,
Whose speed was far faster than light;
She started one day
In a relative way,
And returned on the previous night.”

― Arthur Henry Reginald Buller

 

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Photo credit: TomasEE [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D

Poster for “The Day the Earth Caught Fire” (1962)

Universal-International.

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“Tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking on my door.”

“Late last night and the night before,

tommyknockers, tommyknockers, knocking on my door.

I wanna go out, don’t know if I can

‘cuz I’m so afraid of the tommyknocker man.”

― from Stephen King’s The Tommyknockers

 

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Cover to “Detective Comics” #630, Michael Golden, 1991

DC Comics.

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“One crown is lacking, Prospero …”

One crown is lacking, Prospero,

My empire is my own;

Dying Alonso does not know

The diadem Antonio

Wears in his world alone.

— Antonio’s refrain, from W.H. Auden’s The Sea and the Mirror

 

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Cover to “Amazing Stories,” A. Sigmond, June 1933

Teck Publishing.

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I HATE BROCCOLI AND I HATE *YOU.*

(I’m sorry for the above outburst. It’s a classic example of Freudian transference. Sad, really. I hate broccoli, but I surely DON’T hate you. That came from an angry place.  I apologize.)

 

 

Poster for “Terminator: Dark Fate” (2019)

Paramount Pictures.

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Synchronized Chaos features “Shine Now, Fiercely, Forever”

I’m honored today to see Synchronized Chaos publish my time travel horror story, “Shine Now, Fiercely, Forever.” 

Synchronized Chaos is one of the coolest independent literature sites on the net.  Its publishing focuses are inspired by the mathematical concept of chaos theory, and it employs randominity to promote imaginative thinking.  Thanks once again to Executive Editor Cristina Deptula for allowing me to contribute to such a unique project.

 

 

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, October 26, 1939

 

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