http://slow.writerscafe.org/EmperorOfTheNort The original writings of author Mac en-us Copyright 2026 WritersCafe.org 1775986644 WritersCafe.org RSS Generator 15 “To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.”Theodore Melfi.In the arc of childhood, time bends in strange ways. By the end of my fifth year I had started to notice the many methods by which my parents and their fri.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmperorOfTheNort/1995237/ “Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”Proverbs 22:6My introduction into the world of urban piracy came at a tender age. It was a beautiful spring day in the year two thousand. I was four years and four months of age. My father, F.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmperorOfTheNort/1995234/ “Better far to live and die under the brave black flag I fly than to play a sanctimonious part with a pirates head and a pirates heart.”Gilbert and SullivanIt was fitting that I ended up in jail, that postgraduate academy of survival. I wasdefinitely predisposed to make the deans.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmperorOfTheNort/1995225/ “I travelled through a land of men,A land of men and women too,And heard and saw such dreadful thingsAs cold earth wanderers never knew.”William BlakeMy name is Vincenzo Cassiel Michelangelo Il-Cazzo. Vinnie. I am an urban pirate and an addict in recovery. At present I’.. http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmperorOfTheNort/1995223/ Fictional memoir of a recovering addict http://slow.writerscafe.org/writing/EmperorOfTheNort/1995219/