Dispatches from the King’s Motel

The Crudest Month, an April at War
Derek Maine March 31, 2026 At 30,000 feet in the air, on my escape from Fajardo, I began drying out and replaying certain …
March in the War
Derek Maine March 1, 2026 Here we plumb the depths of human misery, the shape of our national boredom. For the second time …
February, 2026
Derek Maine 2.1.26 I bet too much money (three weeks at the weekly rate for my room here at the King’s Motel) on …
January, 2026
Derek Maine The United States military, in a brazen act, swooped into Venezuela under cover of night, and extracted the President and his …