Darius McCaskey
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Death’s a Real Mother
One night Death came to take a woman’s only son to the Underworld. Just as he was drawing back the boy’s blankets, Death spied a…
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Posted On International Women’s Day
International Women’s Day
Straight, white, gender-conforming males are typically steered toward sports stars and action heroes as role-models, and while I appreciate Doug Flutie and Arnold Schwarzenegger, the…
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It’s Not OK to Punch Nazis… Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Alienating My Friends
Let me begin with the understanding that some of you will brand me a sympathizer, or tell me to check my privilege, or think that…
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Inspiration
Creative inspiration is a funny thing. One never knows what’s going to inspire them, or to what degree. As an example, when I worked in…
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Blood Roses
Once upon a time, there was a teenage boy who loved a teenage girl, and the girl was in love with the boy. Like teenagers…
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Posted On Writing
Shattered Gods: A Novel by Michael Diamond
It is with great pleasure I share news of Shattered Gods, the second novel in the “Mythos Division” series by my good friend, Michael Diamond.…
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Posted On Geek Stuff
Automatic BIOS Firmware and Settings Updates
One of my big projects this summer at work has been to automatically update the BIOS firmware and settings on our roughly 250 (mostly Dell)…
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Radio Silence
It’s been over a year since I wrote anything in this blog space, and it occurs to me that I should make an effort to…
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Posted On Poetry
New Poem: “In Winter”
In winter, our lives rearrange. The light shifts and we scratch away our mange. In winter, our days shrink. The light shifts and we have…
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Posted On Poetry
New Poem: “Veils”
Veils Veils make the beautiful even more so and the ugly beautiful Obscuring flaws and highlighting perfection The gentle slope of a nose a…
Darius McCaskey
Darius McCaskey is an author, poet, and musician from Rockford, Illinois.