Chapter Seven – Data The sweeping winds batter the field. The rain, falling with the slowness and lightness of snow, knocks on the dome like soft pebbles. This light shower—an occurrence that happens every few years—now happens much more frequently. The hydrocarbons swirl through the cold outside like a twisted mist confused and uncertain whereContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Seven – Data”
The Mirror of Me – Chapter Six – Bread
Chapter Six – Bread The squeaky wheel of the grocery cart echoes hollow in the sparse vegetable and fruit section. I don’t hear it. I park in front of the asparagus, drifting in and out of awareness, as I pick through the sickly lot of them, looking for a good batch held together with threeContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Six – Bread”
The Mirror of Me – Chapter Five – Anderas
Chapter Five – Anderas Pale blue ice lights the world through the faint salmon pink haze of steady and sullen dusk. Sixty-five square kilometers, Anderas floats high amongst the chemically generated clouds in the low gravity, dense atmosphere, like an opaque silver disk and sphere—or a floating, flat-bottomed bubble. The nanite energy field protects theContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Five – Anderas”
The Mirror of Me – Chapter Four – Poetry
Chapter Four – Poetry The next morning, I sit curled in a comfy, cushiony chair on the veranda by the lake wrapped in his sweater. His smell no longer lingers. Like him, it’s long gone. The sun shoots odd rainbow-like rays through the overcast sky. Deep lilac clouds, bloated and bruised like violets faded byContinue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Four – Poetry”
She-Bear Thus Accosted – Chapter One – Cotton Candy
Chapter One She tasted him falling in love with her—felt it on her lips like blood. It was hot in the air—like coffee at a coffee shop, sea-salt on the wind, cotton candy at a carnival. She smelled his want and tasted his need in her bones. Through every nerve ending, shattered and uninterrupted, shardsContinue reading “She-Bear Thus Accosted – Chapter One – Cotton Candy”
The Mirror of Me – Chapter Three – Halcyon
Chapter Three – Halcyon I listen to her without words or response. Wynne pauses occasionally, a lurking question in her eye, gone within a blink, acknowledging that I have no questions for her before continuing in her discussion of what it is I will be participating. I silently observe what is around me, I imagine,Continue reading “The Mirror of Me – Chapter Three – Halcyon”
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