El Rod

@elrodflemmerton.bsky.social

Writer, artist, actor. SoCal beach scene, I live in Encinitas, am rabidly anti-fascist. USMC combat veteran. Yeah, don't even think about it. I write mostly satire and humor, but am working on my war memoirs. Pushcart Prize Nominee in 2019.

There is an epic sleeping underneath my tongue and I have a story worth telling so here I am, pouring the containers that I keep behind my eyes with plans to baptize you in all the things I’ve seen, Hoping these words will be the fire hydrant on your street corner

Ten stories is a long way to fall, but you can traverse that distance in one heartbeat. Only one heartbeat, your heart stops after that. I had no illusions that I would not die. In the moment I leaped I aimed my body toward the center of the deserted pool, directly below.