C. Rommial Butler

Joined October 2021

245 stories

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C. Rommial Butler is a writer, musician and philosopher from Indianapolis, IN. His works can be found online through multiple streaming services and booksellers.

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Resignation
I resign. I resign myself to solitude to escape loneliness. I am not like you and never will be. It’s okay that you will never understand, because I do.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Journal
The Final Calculation
I pored over all their stories but when it was time to tell my own I didn’t know what to say. Their stories had dragons and devils and gods and angels and heroes and villains.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Fiction
A Review of ShadowMyths' The Gallery of Nightmares
I spent a day wandering about the woods at Fort Ben State Park in Indianapolis, perusing a magnificent collection of painting and parable on Doug Hoppes’ ShadowMyths website.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in BookClub
Choosing to Be that Which We Become. Top Story - May 2025.
In 2020, I had two essays published, and spent that year of tumultuous political upheaval working on a much longer third work which was relevant to unfolding events.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Writers
The Poet's Song
There is a third thing and the fourth way Against which all the forces strive in vain. If only they would cease engaging the fray
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Poets
The One and the Other
"I'm sorry for what I did and I still love you!" said the one. "How do I stop loving you?" "You don’t have to stop loving," said the other. "Stop expecting others to give you what you want in the mournful moment. Move on in Peace. Love exists independent of human interaction. When you learn that, you will find that the spark reignites, and the interaction, insofar as it is necessary, is neither burden nor blessing, but just one more signpost on our way to an inevitable resolution at the end of time."
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Poets
SO(U)L
The Poet wandered long through storm and stress, over mountains, through desert wastes. He plummeted into and plumbed the depths of the Abyss; climbed hand over hand to the precipice on the other side.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Poets
The Key
STRANDED! We all gotta die. Should we die striving toward the ideal or wallowing in the cesspit of the actual? I used to call folks out on their lies, but I learned it was best to leave them to tie themselves up in knots.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Poets
Sam Gets a Shooting Lesson for Once
This is the next installment in The ShambElla Saga, wrapping up the companions' time with Damien Daimon, the Unwilling Antichrist, and the gifts and lessons he has for them before they tackle the final leg of their journey.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Fiction
Exclusivity Breeds Contempt
To do good in the world requires only that the individual has a clear conscience and a pure heart. However, many bad things may happen to that individual who stumbles forward into such a terrible world with such good intentions.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Poets
Misleading Signals
Three times on Harry’s drive to the park, another driver flashed a turn signal but didn’t turn. Once he almost turned left in front of someone who was going straight because they were signaling the opposite way.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Fiction
Brunch at the HAMMER N' CLUB
This is the next chapter in The ShambElla Saga. Table of contents: Previous Chapter: ***** * ***** “I’m gonna let ya in on the secret of evil,” Damien said to them as they talked over brunch.
By C. Rommial Butler10 months ago in Fiction