“Proletariat Incursion”
“People like Isabella, Melvin, Soyala, and Skylar had been invited to the Prince’s ball all right, but as wallflowers, strays, and stags. The newcomers, like adjunct lecturers alive with dazzle and flair, had a real but short-lived effect on the University. The interlopers appeared on campus like vibrant and unusual posters for a theater production: […]
Continue reading“The Flowers”
“When they arrived, she stood to the fore extending a handful of flowers. “Oh, aren’t they absolutely beautiful?” Windy asked, as only she could, a question that had been put a million times before in a million similar situations, but never with such genuinely honest questioning, with a real desire to know if the others […]
Continue reading“Elsa’s Fairies”
“Elsa encountered the elementals of both earth and water; she met them in gardens and woods, by streams and lakes. Something told her that these beings intermediated between the gross physicality of the world experienced through the senses and the subtle spirituality of the celestial domains. She apperceived that just as the fleshy integument of […]
Continue reading“The American Aristocracy”
“The United States had supposedly turned its back on the old-country ways of class stratification in favor of equality; hence, it could never, in good conscience, acknowledge any system in the country that smacked of aristocratic privilege. So, the wealthy gave lip service to upward mobility and told stories of walking ten miles in the […]
Continue reading“Satisfaction”
What is more satisfying than any victory, more thrilling than any high, more pleasurable than any climax? Weightless flotation in the Eternal Bliss of Pure Consciousness.
Continue reading“Waves”
“As I leaned against the railing overlooking the ocean, the sun sent mini-stars plopping into the water and exploding outward in fulgurations. Waves unfurled themselves against the shore like ingots of gleaming argent metal being flattened out and spread thin. Some of the waves were fashioned purely from light. This image, an apparently material wave […]
Continue reading“The Sun”
“The sun, scintillant cue ball in the sky, luminous Eucharistic wafer, eyeball of God, was now setting over the Pacific. On the top surfaces of the rock outcroppings, pools of water left over from light rains and surging waves resembled jigsaw puzzle pieces waiting to be assembled into some grand design. The sun shot a […]
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