SHORT STORY: PORTALS

“When you are crazy you learn to keep quiet.” – Philip K. Dick "The portals are everywhere. And they lead to other Earths...right beside this one." At first, I thought, when I went to sleep at night – I was small then and new to reality -- someone came in to the house to change the whole thing, and that it was some kind of test, and the point of my day was to expose it, or to get back to the one I liked. The one from the day before. Or the one I started at -- I DON’T KNOW WHICH I STARTED AT NOW. It has been so long that I have been doing this... I keep losing track?...

THE END 1.0

Think how it wakes the seeds-

Woke once the clays of a cold star

Are limbs, so dear achieved, are sides

Full-nerved, still warm, too hard to stir?

Was it for this the clay grew tall?

-O what made fatuous sunbeams toil

To break earth’s sleep at all?

WOMAN IN A TIGHT GREY SUIT

“What is now proved was once only imagined.”
― William Blake

A story by Michael Burns

It was one of those, afternoons. Sitting at a small café, light diffused, not quite there — surreal.

Light waiting to happen. On the edge of waiting to happen…ready.