Garden Stories

I've always been fascinated with the origin story and how our world has been partially shaped by many of these dreams of the ancients. Even parts of our most advanced science is still reflected in the so-called mythology of our universe, and vice versa. In this series of stories, I explore relationships between us and our origins, drawing from my studies and experience having thus far existed.

Fish Bowl - A Poem of Love and Dirt

A bowl of fish fills in the void between half-full and half-empty; written with Seussian glee into realms only gestured at in previous writings: "And then something went SQUISH! How that ‘squish’ made us flip! We looked! Then we saw him; we looked and we saw him step in with us! The upright walker! He stepped into the bowl with us, only to sink."

The Abandoned Shrubbery

Having been left to their fate by upright walkers who left their dimensional realm, a donkey and a bull discuss their predicament while sitting atop a broke-down Ferris wheel jutting into the air from an abandoned amusement park.

Under the Fig Tree

A story about garden creatures interrupted during their lives when humans in their midst break the world around them.

The Mission and Love Lost — an undated log-entry

While terraforming a planet buried within mechanical exoskeletons, our collective souls are ripped from one another ... but, as we realize our loss and the inevitable end of the world we once knew, we are blessed with a tiny window to love.

The Naming Queue

A story of a being, half man and half woman, who grants names, one at a time, to garden creatures who are standing in a very long line meandering down a wondrous valley, and bored out of their minds ... and also waiting to receive a name they already knew.

Adam's Belly-button and Flying Fish

How Adam in the Garden of Eden discovers where his belly-button came from.

Inside the Garden

A story that follows the creation of the world: starting from the depths of the known universe; a story of birth told through a poetic palindrome-driven exploration cycling back through our own forgotten narrative, and then expanding across our newly gained awareness of living — video intro: YouTube

Outside the Garden

A story told in a lyric style of original humans that grapple with choices they've made, the magic of industry, and the confusion of lost memory, while forced to survive and thrive in a brave new land built with their own hands.