The Natural Order_The Divine Plan_PLANT_Observation
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The Natural Order
The salt air burns her eyes.The cold wind lashes at her face, and the ocean waves assault her nose, her ears, the back of her throat, with their smells and sounds. The sand beneath her is soft between her toes, and the sky above is infinite and cloudless, studded with a thousand distant, blinking lights.This then, is Nature.****************************************************************************The people of Tyl live by a single tenet: ‘Do not disturb the natural order.’It shows in their every action, in the homes that they build among still living trees, in the food that they refuse to fa...
The Divine Plan
I’ve been waiting a year for this day. I sit at the bar, chew on peanuts, and swill the last of a Pabst Blue Ribbon. It’s 2:59 pm. The ceremony is about to begin. The Steelers just scored a touchdown. The sports bar jumps with cheer. Five bucks says, right about now, she’s thinking about peaking her head out of the bride’s room just to see what all the commotion is about. When she does emerge from that soft shelter, she’ll shield her eyes from the altar. She can’t see me before the ceremony—that would be bad luck. “I’ll take another,” I say to Jamie, the bartender. He brings me another PBR. ...
PLANT
I listened to my dad’www.onedoor.ccs story for the 7th time. I sat down on the floor that was covered in a pile of masks - cushy cushy for the tushy, as he sang. His story followed:“The pandemic began with a seed. It was a seed that prospered in an old pot that I got from my mom when she was going through my Grandpa’s old stuff. It was this old porcelain thing, sturdy enough to grow whatever I put into it. As soon as I saw it, I knew it belonged on my studio’s dusty windowsill, next to my laundry basket where I threw my comfy pants that I wandered the street in. Next to where your crib is now. Perfection.Bu...
Observation
She sat in a crowded train full of restless people awaiting their arrival. The atmosphere smelt of garden-picked berries and freshly brewed coffee from the cafe at the end of the car. The speaker overhead screeched of direction for our estimated time of arrival and pressured conductor humor. “On your right-hand side, you will notice a field of stray sheep and brown cows wandering the grounds in search of tall grass. On your left, you will see an arrangement of sights. Beginning with a glimpse of the Smoky Mountains, which are nearly 300 million years old, and were discovered by...,” I watched...