“Emotions, experienced over the course of the present and many past lifetimes, leave imprints, some shallow and some traumatically deep, on the tissues of the human soul. For example, people bring into life a thousand different types of unwarranted fear. They experience loneliness, anger, hatred, jealousy, envy, and other emotions in response to the number […]
Continue reading“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“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 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 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 […]
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