Married on September 5, 2021 — I love trees too much to call it a paper anniversary, so I will name it a tree anniversary, especially that the wedding took place surrounded by olive trees. Close to 50 Medium writers and readers (listed below) were invited, along with Anthi Psomiadou’s dog, with many of them attending…

I am M — I am Patrick M, but I seem to prefer M for some unconscious reason. “Come on, M!” OK, Patrick! I just dislike Saints. “Come on!” M sounds better than Patrick. “It is subjective, M.” I know it too well, and stop interfering! I know that it reads, Patrick M at…

A tragedy — This Greek tragedy only involved the lowercase letters. The uppercase ones were exempt as they always are in everyday life, being uppity and larger, especially in comparison with the lowercase derelicts of existence, which are overused and even abused, a few of them much more than the others. …

Mostly true and mostly M’s (Updated 8/27/2022) — Most of the short stories were published in 2020 in Sexual Tendencies, whereas the poetry and a few shorts, published in Sensual: The Erotic Life, continued to appear like a prick, or is it a pussy, in 2021 and 2022 as well. You could be the judge of these 200…

If I didn’t write it — The stages by which one mutates or pupates from one identity to another are not always evident while they are being undergone. Christopher Hitchens, from Hitch-22: Changing Places I wonder if the above quote can also be applied to the dyad of Patrick and M. I must be jesting. I…

Only five — Time travel is impossible because it would always entail a much quicker end of the universe in which it occurred, which could prove the point just by having been said, or support the theory of the multiverse, exponentially, and perhaps even help explain why ignorance is bliss, and disaster, when…

You are not alone — It is better, even best, not to be envied and thus, it is better, even best, not to be well-known or even only known a little bit. Dear Jean Améry is, lamentably, one of the utmost specialists on the subject. Which one? He published his, On Suicide: A Discourse on Voluntary Death (1976) two years before ending…

Beginning on October 5 — Following three series, namely, Cryssarina’s/Eléni’s First Visit (13 parts), Eléni & M Move to Athens (37 parts), and Anthi & M - Notes (36 parts), about Anthi and M, as well as Goddess Athena and Patrick, and other savoury characters (all series and related pieces are linked at the bottom)…