“Night Walk”
“The boy ended up walking all night. But it didn’t seem like a long time to him; in fact, it didn’t seem like any time at all. For he had forgotten about time that night. He had simply allowed his consciousness to float out of his body and blend intimately with the hushing exsufflations of […]
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“It had been a long night for Gilberto. After parting with Tahatan, he didn’t get another ride for a long time. He decided to walk beside the road. Soon, darkness had descended on the land. Now, what little traffic had passed over the road during the day disappeared. The boy had only the moaning of […]
Continue reading“Coming Together”
“Kira, once again allowing her book to open up a new world, brought the other two girls to her on that smooth-earthed beach adjacent to the swirling aquamarine waters of the magical stream. They had, by this time, become close. They had begun to remember times long past when they had been together in different […]
Continue reading“Wisdom of an Elder”
“Gilberto got lost in the natural beauty surrounding them. When he glanced at Tahatan, the boy saw a soul completely at peace with its surroundings. Tahatan possessed that quality: He always looked perfectly at peace wherever he was. The stage made no difference; the actor mastered the boards. Tahatan drew the boy’s attention to various […]
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“Gilberto ran up to the old truck, which looked like something a clan of Oklahoma refugees might have been driving to California during the Dust Bowl, and met a face that instantly calmed him down. The driver was a Native American gentleman about seventy years old. Although the man didn’t say a word, the boy […]
Continue reading“Above the Pacific”
“They were, at that moment, walking on an embankment overlooking the Pacific Ocean. They stopped and gazed out upon the scene. Just to their right, a magnificent Monterey Cypress thrust out its trifurcated trunk, its sculpted and polished limbs, and its unkempt, shaggy bushes of needles. From within the tree, dozens of invisible birds squawked. […]
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