It was dark, and had been for a long time.

It was dark, and had been for a long time. So long that Mimi couldn't remember what light was like. That's why when she opened her eyes that October evening she was shocked to find

the sun,a massive white fireball descending below the horizon, spreading brilliant colors of orange, pink and purple across the sky like somebody had thrown a paint bucket at it.

God's canvas? The universe splurged gloriously for noneone in particular and Andy swore to the creative powers that made him, someday he'd be out there viewing Earthrise from

Of course Aurora Borealis was code for his left hand & his life was one sorry excuse after another. Anxious & wanting was his permanent state of being w/ the occasional feeling of

utter panic. Just recently, he'd been shopping for a gift for his "girlfriend" at the local mall. On the up escalator to the third floor, a crush of people nearly knocked him over

into the next county, where he would have found lots of shops to find the perfect gift for that special someone in his life. But instead, he remained on the escalator among the

Minions who were scurrying like the dormouse he once had for a pet. Boom, boom, boom! The trumpets announced something about the Wood King having a Royal Feast on Dominion Day.

Twilight wants surreality, ever fruitful I miss your kind and I am allowed to set you free. Get in in out of line. Stick your whole head in there punk. Count the nothing twice, sla

-m the door and be gone! And thus it happened that I began my lonely years. At first I was glad, but after a decade or so I wandered off a cliff, with no-one to which I could call.