“Bona Dea”
“Lending credence to the theory that one assumes different genders in various lives, my artist-self once caught, in reverie, the barest glimpse of a figure I ought, as a man, never to have seen. Quite possibly, it was a buried memory from a life I had spent as a female, come to this one, in […]
Continue reading“Sunset”
“Now the sun transformed itself into a mushy, irregularly-edged marshmallow and adjusted its warped edges right before my eyes. It was closer to the horizon now. The light shafts on the water faded by the moment, now touching only the occasional wave top. A dip of tangerine sherbet stole the place of the sun. Humans […]
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 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“Else’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 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 […]
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