There were little hints day after day. Sometimes packaged elegantly in themed wrapping paper and other times just a tatter of a box sealed with a twist of fraying twine. She left them everywhere to be found, mine were the only eyes who spied them. She was always there before me, one step ahead. I could do nothing but follow her. I always stumbled on. And she led unseen.

Sometimes on long winding ...

The Sun, a circle of fire, pulls

On the Earth, a sphere of water,

Who pulls back as

Her ashen silver companion

Raises and releases her tides

As that same fire in the firmament

Grabs the water of the deep circles

Skyward the oceans, rivers and lakes

Along with the round reflecting dew

Are drawn from their terrestrial well

To the highness of heaven—

For only an instant

—And then comes their fall i...

In the great volumes of the Cosmic Library, on the sparkling shelves among the theme of Sleep and Dreams in the subheading: Wisdoms and Warnings, there can be found in a silver cased tome a small tale of a village and their pearls from long ago. When you have found the page bookmarked with a ribbon of light—it is 234—this is what you will find to read:

The nights, always filled with expectation, ...

One career, two visions. One on the cutting edge of modernity, the other centuries old. The doctor held two titles, one with respect the other with a taint of disdain. But the one thing he loved above all else was eyes. He loved what they had to tell—-it was one thing you could trust. His favorite quote was framed on the wall:

“When I talk of eyes, the stars co...

Not just anyone could get into the time honored halls, but we had done it. Sibling Sarah-Fire on my right and Sibling Mary-Water on my left. I was in the middle, just like the element that held them apart, I was known then as Sibling Matthew-Air. We all hoped to have one day the title of Master of Aether before our names. That was a long way off, this was our first class, the one we’d have all ...

He woke to pain, hunger and thirst. That slip of soul into skull. There was not only a fog behind his eyes but also in front. The lids heavy like some rust sealed metal blinds. He tried to pull on that hidden cord, find a button to pull them up. With great effort they rose to bleary eyed tears, not of sorrow but of something else he could not yet feel. He could tell he was lying on his stomach so ...

With his tongue he flipped the lick of whiskey down his tumbleweed choked throat. Then with a stamp of his feet, the last of the sand slipped down the seams of his boots onto the floor. Now he could feel the road had ended, he was back in town. A town so far away from the wet isle of green that he would have shed a tear if any drop of moisture had been left in his eyes. He wanted to settle there, ...

Every year at this time they honored the one person, and only, they both knew who had died. They walked in holding hands, but Alicia felt as if something had changed, she wondered if after so many years together the life was going out of their relationship. She didn’t have time to dwell on that thought, their Guide had brought them into the exhibition room and then found an outlet in the floor t...

Her rubber soles carried her on the linoleum as if she wore sharp edged skates and figured-eight on ice. Years of practice brought her down those halls with a tray full of goodness for others. Between the doors of her visits, she flipped through the Bible verses she kept filed and stored in her mind. The only version she allowed to take up her gray cells were those from King James. Who wanted dry,...

His true love had been the passion for money. Money that was tactile, which he could hold. He was a man of the flesh, what he owned had to be embodied as well. He didn’t do something with his money, he made. More and more. Buildings rising high in the sky with full elevator walls filled with the buttons of floors. Golf clubs, artificial island resorts, he built and built. He still needed more. The...