The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

A little experiment here. One story, told from two different points of view. Put yourself in their place as you read the tale. The Last Flight of Apis The silk found me somewhere between the lavender and home. I did…

The problem with living forever isn’t boredom. It’s that the self which survived the process would no longer be you. A philosophical essay on immortality, identity, and why authorship may be the only kind of eternity worth wanting.

There is a thought experiment, older than philosophy itself, I offer for your consideration. It does not require a laboratory or a text. It requires only that you open your eyes, truly open them, and hold what you see against…

JOEBROADMEADOWBLOGCOM  ·  AUTHOR DISPATCH APRIL 2026 What’s Next from Joe Broadmeadow NEW PROJECTS  ·  2026 Two Bold New Chapters from a Veteran Storyteller Crime, conspiracy, dragons, and destiny — Joe Broadmeadow expands his literary universe with two eagerly awaited new…

By Joe Broadmeadow Pope Leo XIV was returning from Turkey and Lebanon last December when a reporter asked him about interfaith coexistence. The Pope said Lebanon demonstrates that Islam and Christianity “are both present and are respected” and that there…

Author’s note: In the old mill where we now live, I often wonder about the generations of people who worked here, laboring in difficult and sometimes dangerous conditions. From old men and women, stooped with age from the backbreaking work,…

The world is now living inside the crisis that Barack Obama’s Iran policy was designed to prevent. Oil prices are being yanked around by a shooting war in and around Iran, the country sits on a stockpile of highly enriched…

Exploring the woods, fields, streams, and swamps of a then far less developed Cumberland gave me some of the finest moments of my life. Unburdened by real responsibility, free from schedules and deadlines, and indifferent to how time was spent,…

History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does send invoices. The bill for one of the most catastrophic foreign policy blunders of the modern era has arrived—and it is written in fire, blood, and the wailing of 3.2 million displaced Iranians.…

**WASHINGTON, D.C.** — In what defense officials have called “a major step forward in national self-esteem engineering,” the Pentagon confirmed it will proceed with the $1 trillion *Trump-Class Battleship*, a 90,000-ton floating tribute to “power, patriotism, and personal branding.”  “The…