Flash Epistle Number Six

Mike Essig
2 min readJan 9, 2018
Brian Luke Seaward

During my curious youth, I spent an entire year (1970) taking LSD, perhaps fifty times. Pure, strong LSD. Like Jake Blues, I thought I was on a mission from God. It was time well spent. Doubters think LSD is just a trigger for meaningless hallucinations. The characters in the Iliad all heard the voices of gods in their heads, believed in those voices, and acted upon them. Were they mad or touched by Divine Fire? Today, Achilles would be given…

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Mike Essig

Honorary Schizophrenic. Recent refugee. Displaced person. Old white male. Confidant of cassowaries.