“On the Celestial Plane”
“All the limitations of a physical body, which had frustrated one so on earth, had disappeared. The merest hint of an idea would instantly and effortlessly produce the seemingly visible, audible, and tangible reality. The thought seemed to contain within it not only the essence but also the building blocks of its object. They thought […]
Continue reading“Blue Light World”
“They lived in a blue world, a world of broad lakes of azure light, of huge, immaculate, feathery, nebular gleams, of motionless streams of aquamarine, of depthless expanses of indigo space. But if they focused on a particular thought, the wavy, soft outlines of their space would instantly resolve themselves into geometric prisms of rigorously […]
Continue reading“Santa Cruz Shore”
“In the flats, the water was uniformly shallow and the foam residue of the waves extended for hundreds of yards, like suds in the bottom of a huge drained bath tub. Lanes formed behind the waves in this area, straight long-line streamers stretching out behind them as they broke towards shore. Auburn kelp fronds, swept […]
Continue reading“The Balm of Music”
“As a very young child, he had experienced monotony, travail, lonely isolation, and intense yearning in Bolero, the wonders of discovery and majestic natural beauty in the Grand Canyon Suite, and the mystery of falling in love in South Pacific. In his adolescent years, he soothed the tribulations of imprisoning loneliness, dangerous self-hatred, forlorn infatuation, […]
Continue reading“A Friend”
“As he gazed into his young friend’s eyes, seeing there only welcome and joy, Skylar felt himself unfolding as if he had been a long-locked jewelry box whose mechanism had just sprung open. His heart, which had long lain hidden beneath layer after layer of protection, behind shield, armor, and mail, like a cherished princess […]
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