Author: Maurice Tuck

All poems by Maurice Tuck Ebb Tide Sorrow has its tides. When loss has risen full No current deeply hides From lunar sway and pull, But grows and flows and streams From up the ocean shelf, To flood the living dreams Of continental self. In waves it crushes down With chills that lap the mind,…

Flight of the Phoenix by Maurice Tuck, writing as Gabriel Alighieri Copyright 1978 Maurice Tuck Use only with permission. [I stand on the desert sand, the stark moon overhead, gazing at the awesome spire of granite painted pale by the lunar light. The stones surge madly, desperately, before me, like the talons of some buried…

Flight of the Phoenix  by  Gabriel Alighieri Copyright 1978 Maurice Tuck I stand on the desert sand, the stark moon overhead, gazing at the awesome spire of granite painted pale by the lunar light. The stones surge madly, desperately, before me, like the talons of some buried behemoth – only the ashen nails of its…

The Phoenix   By Maurice Tuck Moon-raking talon, pale nail of the night in the light of that planet, Pall mall in flight over sky-scraping towers of crystalline granite. Surging escarpments soar desperate upward, all reason discarded. Proud perching summits by precipice girded, by palisade guarded, Stone-faced and silent, stare desolate downward with frowns unforgiving;…

The enduring tale of the bird known as the Phoenix stretches as far back in time as historian can delve. It has a colorful, nearly impervious plumage of gold and scarlet shades of red. It begins its 500 year life-cycle as pure white, turning red as it grows older and wiser. Near the end of…

Some of my early writings, both prose and poetry.

Fantasy/psychic story of magician versus demon. Written in the 70s before home computers were available. I have to re-type it into the computer. This task awaits only my finding the gumption to do so.

ENDOREAN DIPTYCH by Maurice Tuck This is a science fiction/fantasy novella about the meeting of Merovin, a merger of Old Earth Zen and science, with the inhabitants of Endor, a world of magic and mutants. It is told somewhat in summary form, which gives short shrift to dialogue and many of the scenes. I intend,…

The Legend The enduring tale of the bird known as the Phoenix stretches as far back in time as historian can delve. It has a colorful, nearly impervious plumage of gold and scarlet shades of red. It begins its 500 year life-cycle as pure white, turning red as it grows older and wiser. Near the…

This is too many pieces spread about in too many folders. It will take me some time to locate, collate, structure etc. But I’ll get there.

By Maurice Tuck Contents Intro and a Note for the Skeptic – The art of not seeing magic Magic – Expressive / Receptive The Magical Mindset Science and Magic The Laws of Magic Esoteric and Intuitive Magic Magic Spells White Magic / Black Magic Mundane Magic; High Magic; Deep Magic Mind Reading The Compleat Magician…

By Maurice Tuck The transhuman concept is marvelous, appealing and timely. There is no doubt in my mind that this is the direction in which human consciousness is heading, barring a collapse in society – an implosion back to primitiveness – or an Orwellian catastrophe that imprisons the minds of the populace. Recombinant DNA (and…

Maurice’s first and enduring love has been languages. His second love is science. His first BA, in 1969, was in French with a minor in German. Realizing that no human has ever had a decent command of even one percent of the living languages, he turned to a more generalized study and took his Masters…