Author by Night - Rod Ellis

We Win!

Rod Ellis — Fri, 18 May 2007 23:45:05 +0000

CBS has canceled Jericho!

They failed miserably anyway. They stole a good story and screwed it up.

Read Flight in Winter.Â You know you want to.

The Live Test Show

Rod Ellis — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 01:27:35 +0000

Rod Ellis, Author by Night was interviewed on the Live Test Show, April 12th.

Hosted by RadioX

Antubert and his co-host, Brad, confront an ever confusing world with truth and simplicity, calling the Goliaths to accountability. Tune in to their show Monday through Thursday, 9:00PM eastern time. Don’t forget, you can participate by calling in or sending email.

Listen to the interview

More Stuff Online

Rod Ellis — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 01:12:20 +0000

I’ve added quite a few more writings to the site. Browse around because they are sprinkled throughout several categories.

You have to be registered to read many of the things on this site. Subscribers can read thousands of items and more to come.

…til it’s over

Rod Ellis — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 04:55:13 +0000

I thought I was done writing The Journey but I was wrong. There was still a faint whisper inside, yearning to be written. I sat down in front of my computer a few nights ago and tapped out another episode. Now, The Journey is complete. Now my soul is at rest.

Sometimes I weep when I read what my soul has written.

Keep writing. Keep telling the story until it’s over…until it’s really over.

Someone’s Listening

Rod Ellis — Mon, 26 Feb 2007 03:19:21 +0000

Not long ago, one of my readers informed me about similarities between Flight in Winter and Jericho so I decided to check it out. They were correct, so I started raising red flags.

Someone was listening. Others will too.

CBS has to shift their story line to avoid a major confrontation. They’ll never match what you experience when you read Flight in Winter.

Don’t you think a real series should be done from the original story?

A Miracle

Rod Ellis — Sat, 24 Feb 2007 03:44:57 +0000

It is a miracle that any of us is alive by the time we reach…my age. The heartaches of life beat us down, threatening to grind the fragile life from our bones. What man alive has not wondered what it would be like to lie down and die, leaving the pain behind before it is time?

No, I’m not suicidal. Far from it. I am merely observant and I am allowed, yea, entitled to be observant without the judgment of others. Not many have the audacity to broach topics of this nature, considered forbidden by the masses, for to do so surely soils the soul of the guilty, but only in the eyes of the weak and fearful, and I do not fear their judgment.
I am not afraid of death but I prefer not to die just yet because I am so much in love with those around me and their presence brings me so much joy. Isn’t this what the Creator intended? Yes, I think so too.

So, rather than dwell on death, I merely find it a miracle that any of us lives long enough to enjoy the love of another.

Don’t die, Rod. Not just yet, and when you do, rest in peace, leaving behind the faint aroma of hope.

Many many years from now, late at night when no one else is around and an almost imperceptible aroma of love and hope graces the space wherein you dwell, think of me and how happy I am and remember that I was a living miracle, a glimmer of hope, a vessel of love that overflowed at the slightest touch…finally.

More Stuff

Rod Ellis — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:59:22 +0000

I have added several items in the Music and Poetry section and also Earl’s Bafroom Book.

Take a look and let me know what you think.

I have hundreds more items to add to the site and will be doing so as time permits.

02/20/08 – Added more to the Music and Poetry section.

Things a Man Should Never See

Rod Ellis — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 14:45:27 +0000

This photo was taken in the village of Ayod during the Sudan famine crisis, the picture depicts a small, starving Sudanese child being stalked by a vulture. The photograph earned Kevin Carter a Nobel Prize in 1994. He committed suicide that same year. He left this note.

“I am depressed … without phone … money for rent … money for child support … money for debts … money!!! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain … of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners…I have gone to join Ken if I am that lucky.”

There are things in this life that a man should never see or experience because their memory burns a hole through the soul that time can never heal.

Their words bathed in tears of emotional pain, writers often offer a glimpse into the hole. They cope by sharing. Their stories are more than literary outbursts of imagination. They are an intricate matrix of existence that borders on the spiritual.

The Challenge

Rod Ellis — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:20:27 +0000

I left work with 4 gallons of gas in my tank. I decided to see if I could make it home without running out. Some people think that’s abnormal, but to me, it was a challenge.

I made it. They were wrong and I am sure quite embarrassed by their doubt. Next time, I try making it home with less.

I’m a wild man.

You can’t stop me.

I’ll take you down with me.

Content Update

Rod Ellis — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:34:15 +0000

Hundreds of items uploaded to the site this weekend with many more to come. Let me know what you think so far.