“Dawn in Paradise”

Excerpt from “Osi and Isi: A Tale of Twin Flames”: “They were so wrapped up in each other, that the couple failed to notice the first signs of dawn. But a bright color in his peripheral vision caused Osi to look toward the ocean. As he turned around, Isi, whose shoulder he held, moved with him. It looked as if some gigantic gods at play had tipped over an immense vat of vivid-red paint. The entire horizon was drenched in scarlet pigment. And what looked like a tornado of fire rose high above the center of their visual line. The far stretches of the Pacific still lay asleep in Prussian blue darkness, but, near the shore, the foaming surf gleamed like well-lit meringue. The cliffs rising up from the beach remained dark and dense, seemingly of a nether, unawakened world. After some time, the bright red gave way to an arrangement of empyreal color such as neither of them had ever seen. The sky resembled layers of a creative Neapolitan ice cream. Orange sherbet striped the low horizon, vanilla rested on the sherbet, and peppermint floated at the top. ‘It’s like a horizontal rainbow, but with a color palette all its own,’ Osi observed.”