“The Giver”
“Dar had no one to please anymore. There were no loved ones or friends to whom she might be of service. She lacked a recipient for the invaluable gifts that she had to bestow. She was now a giver without a taker. And so she gave her boundless love to the world at large, to […]
Continue reading“Ilona”
“When I think about her now, I see her as one of those stunningly prolific rose bushes from whose every stem erupts a gorgeous flower. Her gifts and charms were almost too much for me to handle. My mind liked to conceptualize people and situations, but Ilona refused to be subsumed under a single rubric. […]
Continue reading“Visions”
“She saw beings who astonished her in their beauty and grace: angels, some golden and some the color of the sky; celestial musicians, with skins like verdigrised copper; nymphs dripping with celestial waters; spirits of the winds and storms, spinning in circles as if in preparation to deliver their power. The dazzle of the light […]
Continue reading“Her Walk Became a Trip”
“Rosie was walking slowly on the dusty path that would carry her, for several hundred yards, under the canopy of mid-sized trees, before turning back toward town and bringing her into a residential area adjacent to the business center. She seemed to herself to have been swallowed by the surrounding world, to have disappeared as […]
Continue reading“Winter on Campus”
“Seeing Princeton once had been enough to cause Skylar to fall in love with the University’s physical beauty. But viewing the place pillowed in down and spread with duvets smoothly immaculate, elevated its charm to an almost-painful level. The campus cushioned and enwrapped in snow represented one’s ever-alluring lover, now ravishing, radiant, and enchanting on […]
Continue reading“Child’s Christmas”
“By now it was the height of the holiday season: carolers stood on street corners and sometimes even went door-to-door, poultry hung in various shapes and weights from hooks atop the butchers’ counters, and street lights, buildings, and houses glittered in silvery light-strands, garlands of golden tinsel, and outlines of parti-colored bulbs. At night trees […]
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