Chapter 1: Star Hopping

[Book II will now get it’s own creative workspace (_woohoo!) here!]

As I emerged from the darkest lapse of inter-dimensional travel, I found myself on a desolate beach on a distant planet. The sand beneath my feet was a peculiar shade of iridescent tan, shimmering like stardust. I could feel the ground vibrate; my body shuddered in resonance. After a moment the strangeness of the experience passed. I was quite accustomed to strange new worlds, they would say. I love my job, I remember thinking. Wouldn’t trade this for anything in the worlds. Anything that would tether me down.

It was then that I witnessed a captivating spectacle. A being emerged from the sand, seemingly growing right out of it. A being of the sand. Its slender white form emerged, unfolded and gestured toward me. There was an intelligence, and the intelligence was communicating through its movement. But I surely could not decipher it. The being then took on a form more familiar to my terrestrial earth sensibilities.

It developed a slender neck and a rather bird-like beak. The being displayed paper-thin folds of translucent glass, in other instances would show rows of long feathers that grew into translucent, ethereal wings. The feathered body glistened in color and texture; it produced its own light’. I had never seen anything like this on any planet; in any dimension. As it rose into the low-gravity atmosphere, it radiated an otherworldly aura, casting a soft, iridescent glow that illuminated the surrounding landscape.

If only I knew what shore on which planet in which galaxy. We both pause to observe this strange emergence into the world of another.




This one should be moved over to PROJECTS.