cosmic consciousness

  • Consequences of Division

    The demons had been unusually restless since the veil began to thin. They had always lived among us, although in earlier centuries they possessed the dignity to remain mostly invisible. They preferred cathedrals after midnight, the bedsides of dying kings, the corners of rooms where grief had been left unattended for too many years. They…

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  • As you wish..

    Perhaps the cruelest thing God ever did was remember everything. Imagine eternity with no locked doors. No unanswered questions. No accidents. No wrong turns. No lovers who leave before morning. No death waiting somewhere beyond the candlelight. No possibility that the thing standing in the shadows might actually hurt you. You know everything. You are…

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  • (It was the last summer I spent in P-town before adulthood found me. I lived on American Beauty that summer, letting Sugar Magnolia play again and again like it had just come out. It became the backdrop to everything. That summer on the Cape felt endless, like time loosened its grip just long enough for…

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