Published Articles & Works

Published on 19 Jan 2024 while I prepared to thru-hike the Appalachian trail.

23 - "...Though this tragedy is devastating for all and my heart breaks for the real-time pain circulating in our selective group, the positive impact of this tragedy is yet to be felt because balance is beautiful.

I can feel the trees shudder under me because they know a revolution is on the way. 

It’s a blinking runway beacon in a future written by our charged words and honest actions. It’s a battle against Darkness..."

Published on the New Moon; 11 Jan 24

22 - "...I’ve yet to mark this next statement outright, it’s a typewritten repetition, to highlight our radiant delight. With a deeper peek behind the scenes, detective readers will soon glean. 

Every written word, from my collective work, is a puzzle piece with a plan to esteem the meek. We live a timeless tale of sacrifice to suffer, then a solar flash wakes ye key players, to balance our upset mother. 

We’re all scheduled to settle this score, we victims of your evil systems, never no more..." 

Published on 07 Dec 2023

Chapter 1

20 - You'll find an excised Demon written within. I touched bottom and locked it away, in joy my harmonious spell-cast wordplay. 

Outsmarted by love then bound to study. Say a prayer before ye gaze. Then raise and see, an Enlightened you and me. 

I re-wired my brain to exit the 3rd dimension through a decade of manic scientific study. 

I solved for X, for our Absent Friends, both yours and mine. Rest easy and I'll see you on the other side. 

Published 04 Oct 2023

19 - "...In my written work, I speak to readers on a fundamental level. I speak not to the tangible reader who’s bound to the 3rd dimension. I speak to the atoms and molecules that exist in a sea of infinite probabilities. 

These are the quantum particles that make up matter. I direct the electrical connections made in my brain towards the positive or negative charge of reader’s atoms. It’s a deliberate effort to steer readers towards a path that leads to peace and prosperity..."

Part 1 of 3

By Matthew Griffin and Scott Chapman.

2023: Postscript by Scott Chapman and Russ Pritchard. 

16 - An incendiary article written with rage that sparked an underground medical network, saved countless lives, and gave hope to our stranded allies.

The title is a subtle way to foreshadow how the article mocks the American Officers for never understanding the war or the Taliban.    

 Originally Published on 14 Sept 2021 

Part 2 of 3

By Scott Chapman and Russ Pritchard

15 - An analysis report masquerading as an article from the Taliban. 

The 2nd edition of the "Written in Taliban" series. Highlighting the Taliban's success and America's failures in Afghanistan since the fall of Kabul. 

Published on the 2-year anniversary of the fall of Kabul.

The article is written from the perspective of the Taliban to the American public, the Intelligence community, and the world.

All intelligence claims are verified through independent assets and open source news.

Originally Published on 15 Aug 2023     

Part 3 of 3

By Scott Chapman and Russ Pritchard

14 - "Behind the Scenes" is a follow up to the article titled, "A Taliban feast."

Context makes a story come to life. The goal of this article is to apprise readers to a real-time humanitarian operation that resulted in an unplanned network of stranded Allies in Afghanistan. A self-funded ‘Post Afghan-American War Project’ founded by two authors, Russ Pritchard and Scott Chapman, initially sought to raise awareness of vulnerable Afghans. 

The fruits of our labor created a diverse community of Afghans who were no longer able to work under Taliban authority. 

The recently published article titled, “A Taliban Feast” is a watered-down analysis report masquerading as a letter from the Taliban. We employ you to follow us ‘behind the scenes,’ where we’ll expose you to the unchecked monster growing abroad and in our own back yards.

Originally published on 31 Aug 2023 

Originally Published on 28 July 2023

12 - "There’s a stark dichotomy between who I am, and how I earn a living. One supports the other. Yet, the two realities are not bedfellows. I’ve fractured my mind to survive and thrive in my precarious profession wrought with danger while I daydream over the grandeur of the Cosmos. The quiet moments between the cyclic chaos events are my coveted islands of inspiration. This delicate battle between dueling frequencies and paradoxical vibrations is the timeless ballet of a dance called Balance. Carl Sagan once described the Cosmos as antithetical to chaos. One cannot exist without the other. Where there’s Yin, there must always be Yang."

Originally Published on 27 Apr 2023

11 - "...If you spend your energy looking for negativity in your surroundings; then that’s all you’ll find. I hope the risk I’ve taken and experiences I endured show you the outcome of a lawless city that’s electrified with irrational emotion. 

It’s easy for me to focus on the darkness because I was immersed in it. It’s a challenge to see the flower pushing up through a crack in the sidewalk when there’s a homeless person having an overdose on the very same sidewalk. Nevertheless, the flower is still present." 

Originally Published on 02 Mar 2023

9 - "I’ve discovered writing to be a tremendous tool to analyze my mental health status because I’m forced to describe my actions, explain my beliefs, and articulate my captivating perspectives using creative wordplay and fluid sentence structure. Drifting away with the tide is often sought after and an easy route to isolation. But, writing helps keep me connected to the tangible.  

 I write with wild fervor and meticulous dedication because every word I type is one more violent kick towards that safe harbor, and out of the monsoon. I’ll write my way to freedom, or I’ll be scuttled along the way..."  

Originally Published on 19 Jan 2023

8 - "In 2019 I basked in the darkness and dined with my demons. They poured my favorite whiskey and my forever place at their dark dining table is set to welcome another fractured veteran. 

My cozy reservation at this somber dinner party was within grasp. When squared-up and standing face-to-face, I gave a subtle nod and chilled whisper to the grim welcoming party. 

With a cracked, soft vice, I uttered, “Not today, fellas. My story ain’t over yet.” Drastic actions were taken because I needed drastically different results. An experiment ensued where valuable new lessons learned were poured over my fractured frame, like molasses filling a void..." 

Originally Published on 03 Sept 2021

6 - After 20 years of war and a nearly 6,500 days on the ground, two veterans ask difficult questions and lead you to a dark realization that our Government may not have our best interest in mind.  

"...These are daily conversations war-fighters are having among themselves. Honest and introspective, yet in the shadows and offline. Hush secrets that have begun to reverberate across the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan..."

Originally Published on 27 Aug 2022

4 - "She’s waiting in a crowded transit center for a bus that will never arrive. When I saw her, it was 2am and double digits below zero in south Minneapolis. Her eyes are vacant. Her skin festered. And her soul felt hollow. She's a lost consciousness who's disconnected a drifting Universe.
 

At one point in her life, she had a boyfriend who loved her, parents who made sure she finished her homework, and a grandma who cut the crust off her sandwiches. My heart breaks for their loss..." 

Originally Published on 14 Aug 2022

2 - "...Ask any physicist and they’ll tell you the same. Mathematics is the language of the Universe. It’s everywhere; and it’s nowhere. It’s the language that describes the rules and laws that govern our reality; and everything in it. When I look at this cute picture of my pup snuggling closer to her papa, I see the geometry created from the equations that describe The Golden Ratio and The Fibonacci Spiral. I see the beauty of mathematics..."