Jeffrey Collyer's Blog

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I don’t know about you, but I’m glad 2016 is over. It was an eventful year, for sure. Sometimes in a good way. Other times… well, less so. As I […]

I have known many who have believed that beasts are neither good nor evil; that they only do that which nature demands from their birth. For some, perhaps that is […]

Does power corrupt, or are the corrupted drawn to power? Even those who reach the world’s seats of influence may not be able to tell. For the lies they must […]

Few walk knowingly on evil roads. For such paths are strewn with colour and laughter that call enticingly, deceiving even the cautious. It is only when despair’s pit has ultimately […]

There may come into a man’s life a time when his travails take him beyond despair, into a world past feeling where the numbness of his soul seeks oblivion. It […]

Birth may be feared for the treacherous path it treads. It may be railed against for the pain it causes. Or it may be praised for what it brings forth. […]

“Do not forget whom to fear at last. I have had to be content with killing and torment. But now my plans are laid, and I have begun. I shall […]

Uncertainty in life is not a problem to be overcome. Nor should a man wish to avoid it, even were that possible. No. Uncertainty is one of the keys of […]

The most difficult lesson a woman must learn is that for succour to be given, her suffering must first be revealed. From the Wisdom of Ashael (Dreams and Shadows, The […]