Unbound Boxes Limping Gods: Disconnected Stories. Issue # 58: Jonathan Bancroft
November 7, 2012 by cherylmoore
Jonathan is away in France, fighting in The Second Battle of the Marne under Sir Douglas Haig. His thoughts wander towards his family, in between combat. His message will be sent home via pigeon post. (Commemorating Remembrance Day on 11th November) CLICK HERE for next chronological story.
Jonathan’s backstory, set in France (1918)
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Lovely. Beautiful, flowing language. The illustration is amazing as well. One of my favorites from what I’ve seen on your blog.
Hi Kody, thank you!
This is brilliant – beautifully poised and sparingly said.
Thank you!
This reminds me that letter writing is a beautiful medium.
Thank you. Jonathan’s story’s been floating around for a while.
Very well done. Thank you for sharing.
Hi Wally, thank you! Cheryl
Thanks again for the compelling characters you create who struggle in every period of time, past and future. Great imagination.
Thanks, Lee!
Really like the spareness in the image and the text. Simply beautiful.
Hi, Richard, thank you!
So soft and yet sharp, too. It hits you right in the heart! I love this because it captures the awful reality and consequences of war perfectly.
I’m so glad it works, as I had to find a way of writing it, knowing that I had not experienced anything like this horror myself.
I love your character guild master general.
Hi Mike, I’m glad, he’s also one of my favourites. I wish he was real…
i could almost feel this you made it come alive so well thank you for sharing
Hi, I’m glad it worked, thank you for taking the time to read, I appreciate it.
Wow, haunting ~
Hi, Mary, thank you.
Felt a tingle down my spine reading this — feels true(even though I have not experienced war either). Beautiful artwork,too.
Thank you, I’m glad it worked.
Beautiful, it just sent me straight to that time, well done!
Hi Seyi, I’m glad it worked, thanks for letting me know, I appreciate it. Good to meet you. Cheryl
When I first saw this picture on my phone I saw three faces and I thought that it was in fact a collage of faces. I can’t really see them on my PC.
I have become fixated and so I will purge myself here at the source
Right side: a superhero or perhaps a rock star with a black paint around his eye.
He is yelling as evidenced by his open mouth at the bottom right,vertical lines above his lips make him seem a bit like a robot.To the bottom left of his disfigured nose there is one of those masks like the computer hackers wear. Further left a cat like anime person peeks out from under a white blanket draped over a cast of more obscure faces piled up in between.
I am not sure but I think the cat person is helping the super hero out of some predicament caused by the hacker people who were ultimately motivated by good ….
or evil. We may never know.
As always I like the story and both pictures
Wow, I didn’t expect that! I’ll have to view this from my phone to see the cat people. I like cats… In fact I’m surrounded by them as I type. (They plan to destroy and overthrow us when we sleep.)
Powerful, touching, heart rending and timely…
Hi John, thank you. Both of my grandfathers wrote about their 2nd WW experiences, so I had them in mind when writing Jonathan’s story, all be it a very different war.
This gave me shivers. Beautiful.
Thank you
What a beautiful illustration on this one.
It’s so sad and evokes what I imagine to be the horrors of the battlefield trenches.