Peter Grant: A Real-Life Action Hero

Peter Grant

Many times in fiction, we watch heroes go on great adventures, fight villains, and save the day. As much as we admire and enjoy this, we tend to think of these things as fictional, false, fake.

I’m here to tell you it’s real. I’m here to tell you about Peter Grant, who blogs at Bayou Renaissance Man. He’s like the real-life version of an action movie hero or cartoon character.

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Is Modern America an Authoritarian State?

Oppressive states of America (taken from TV Tropes)

Oppressive States of America (taken from TV Tropes)

O say can you see, by the dawn’s early light,
What so proudly we hailed at the twilight’s last gleaming,
Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight,
O’er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming?
And the rockets’ red glare, the bombs bursting in air,
Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there;
O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Look at those two final lines. They’re an obvious question, but normally, it’s sung like a statement. Let us consider the question, though: Is the answer yes or no?

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Welcome

Nice of you to come! Welcome to my permanent home on the web. Feel free to read my posts.

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All the stories I’ve published are below, each one separated by type and series.

Novels/Novellas:

The Perils of Sasha Reed

Shining Tomorrow Volume 1: Shadow Heart (Kindle | Paperback)

Sword & Flower

Short Stories:

Pulse-Pounding Wartime Stories (Risa Yamanote | Mayu Sasaki | Ori Hyomoku)

Machine Crusher Matarobos (Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V ~Finale~)

The Teenage Girl’s Robot Army (Part I | Part II | Part III ~Finale~)

The Age of Petty States ~小国時代~
Hantei wa No Contest (PDF, M4A Audio)
For a Bowl of Rice (PDF)
How to Slay a Bandit (PDF)
The Sword That Breaks Stone (PDF)
Sword Maid (PDF)
Woman Scorned (PDF)
Enemy at Blood River (Part I | Part II | Part III | Part IV | Part V ~Finale~)

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