Kris
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My stories have been read 17656 times
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kris avvell
1st Responder/Rescue Swimmer/Paramedic/ER Nurse Cert. Air Rescue/Life Flight Cert. Trainer-Water Rescue-Police. Freediver- Swim teacher for handicap & other traumatized souls. Love my Job*
Photo-Underwater (me) - Free Dive- Ascent @5m decompressing from about 20m. Taken by my former wife & friend.
Storey's = stripped chapter versions
My stories
Poem from the mentor
To the new Sea Rescue/Lifeguard Capt. As a man finds his love and passion in life and leaves his shadows behind. Ghost and demons from the past may...
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The Lifeguard
Work in progress. Target Q1 2024 The Lifeguard (Calm Water Storms Deep Sea Demons and Rescues of Love). When ghost of the past wash up dead on the...
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Love to hate to read it and yet I had to read it 2x....
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Straight Up Paul..... this piece is every bit a world class columnist piece and should be in FT, Times, NYT, Economist +++. (excellent)
I spent some years, in and out of the former Soviet States, (more than I care to admit) & eastern...
Read full commentPosted in After Russian Rain (A Postscript from Moscow)
I'm all in!
Posted on Mon, 12 Feb 2024
Bath guy all the way
... zone out... fully equipped w/ bubbles, bath salt, candles, got a...
Read full commentPosted in In the Bath
Soul Moving*
Posted on Wed, 07 Feb 2024
Touched me in many ways in a soul moving read.
.. written by writer that move souls. (...
Read full commentPosted in The Home
I See It....
Posted on Mon, 05 Feb 2024
I like it & relate to it....
Poetry touches everyone differently, such is poetry..... IMO-perfect photo w/ this poem...
Read it several times, because, for me, I can smell the sea, & it reminds me of a search & rescue a...
Read full commentPosted in We Watched from the Shore
Love the 1-10 (Q?) points Dave
Posted on Mon, 29 Jan 2024
As a Poli-Sci grad... I would love to use that in a open debate forum... well done*
(4sure provoking a smok'n hot discourse in these times)
Read full commentPosted in The Big Questions of the early 21st Century (or 2023/24 to be more exact!) by Alfred N.Muggins, Reporter, Distant Observer, and Civilian Adjudicator!
<0> :)
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
I enjoyed this Ms. G.....
I sometimes have dreams of a soul passed.... its not all bad or creepy like some people make it out to be.... 'warm visions'... I call them.... comforting to read - I'm not the only one out there
Read full commentPosted in Dreaming of John
On a Road Trip with ya Mr.T *
Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2024
... + followed the link to your pic's...... (totally awesome dude)! a cultural image...
Read full commentPosted in The Gaddafi Effect
Masterful on Spite insight....
Posted on Wed, 31 Jan 2024
IMO...Very keen awareness, so smooth curving in the spite zone, cool kitchen chat +++...I'm ride'n and glide'n on every paragraph Jane....
And then the "Dick, wanker, knob"… (Burst of Laughter Here)!.....
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you..Part 17
Smiling :-)
Posted on Sat, 27 Jan 2024
On a journey with ya in this series (4sure)*.... the picture grabbed me & help take me there... 'Great Photo'... can almost smell the kitchen from here
Read full commentPosted in The Great Falafel Kerfuffle
Cheerries 4sure*
Posted on Thu, 25 Jan 2024
Event though I had the telescope set up & high res camera ready, waiting, waiting, waiting.... and then a layer of overcast moved in... at least I got the picture from this poem & its got cherries... Very Cool Paul*
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