The Wonders of Ancient Venise_Grandfather Clock_Gashi and the Runt_By the Light of all the Lanterns
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The Wonders of Ancient Venise
"Stella!" My mother's voice woke me up abruptly at nine sharp, like yesterday, the day before and every other day. I got up and met her downstairs, expecting pancakes or waffles on the table. But as I hopped off the last stair, she was grabbing her purse and putting on her high heel shoes, ready to blast out the door."Mom," I started flatly. "Why did you wake me up if you're not even staying?"Putting her last heel on and bending over to push her foot in, she looked back at me, a smile on her face. She was wearing her usual knee-length tight black skirt, a tucked-in white blouse, and her black ...
Grandfather Clock
The dream began underwater, it was milky and shady in spots. My breathing underwater appeared to not be a problem. I was swimming barefoot in blue jeans and a white t-shirt under this massive object above me that was blocking the sun from lighting the water. As I approached this thing, it was big like a whale floating, but upon a closer inspection, to my dismay and disbelief, it was a brain, a human brain, the size of a blue whale - just floating there.After recovering from the shock of what I was looking at, I found myself quickly shifting to asking the question why. Why was I there swimming ...
Gashi and the Runt
“Welcome to Zoo Earth. The only zoo for you. That will be fifty Zlatkos.” the employee mutters in a tone that seems to say “I’d rather cut off seven of my arms than speak to you.”I transmit the money while the little runt who dragged me to the hick country of the universe zooms past me to look at the outdated holograms of the Zoo’s main animals.“Wow! Do they really look like that! Hey, Gashi, why do they only have two arms? Do they really walk like that? What’s that weird stuff on their face?”“They only have two arms because whatever God the animals worship failed them. They walk like that bec...
By the Light of all the Lanterns
He had been gone a long time. Even now, after all this time and all these many seasons, he was not quite sure that he was back. He stood at the end of the world and the edge of the world (for all worlds have an edge, just as they have awww.onedoor.cc center or a sky), and he stood so firmly that the stones groaned and shifted under his weight. When he departed, there would be left in his wake two footprints, left as clearly in the rock as if the hard granite had been dust on a windless moon. Today there was a firm breeze from the north, which forced him to squint a little so as to resist the temptation to b...