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Keeping Quiet: Tillia
The sun sweeps across a golden land, far, far away. Tillia is watching a cloud, wishing she was up on it. There is nothing to do here, nothing at all. Except starve. It was the worst famine on Lilia Island in many, many years. Tillia wondered if the cloud would bring rain. It was floating […]
Washington, DC
I arrive early afternoon on Saturday. It is warm out, warm enough to be spring despite being early March. We eat lunch and chat. We go for a walk. It is a little muddy out, but outwardly seems more like a day in May or so. S and I play on the swings, acting for […]
Forgotten Piece of Paper
Forgotten piece of paper, lying there Waiting to be found Waiting to be remembered World that time forgot, lying there Changes happening, changes stirring Never the same Mirin examined the piece of paper more closely. It was a faded, wrinkled picture, sitting towards the bottom of an old box. She hadn’t fully emptied the box […]
California: Making of an Environmentalist
In a way, California is still my homeland. I lived there for fourteen years, longer than anywhere else I’ve lived since. We fly in. The snow of the Sierras gives way to the goldish-brownish-greenish of January California fields. Against the fields and slopes are the deep blue-green of precious lakes. As we near San Francisco, […]
A Village of Tvarnaer’: Lenera Aza
Lenera stood up, her back aching from picking the last of the Tiflro, “blue buckwheat”, as it was later called by the foreign people. She looked around at the mists eerily lying on the meadows of grain, hiding between the ancient trees of the Great Forest which led to the Ktreya Lake, and, weirdest of […]
Taklaman Desert Story
Silk Road The desert is hot at noontime. Nari adjusted her pack. She was carrying a great deal of wheat in it. Although the eleven-year-old did not know it, she and her family were about to enter the Taklaman Desert in Asia. Her father, head of the family, decided to stop. He’d seen a sick-looking […]
Richenda 