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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
In this all-new illustrated short story, 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; such as: "And then something went SQUISH! How that ‘squish’ made us flip! We looked! Then we saw it; we looked and we saw it step in with us! The upright walker! It stepped into the bowl with us, only to sink."
The Abandoned Shrubbery
Having been left to their fate by the original upright walkers, 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, inside what had been left of Paradise.
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 Garden Demon
Trapped in a world perceived as uncreated, and sucked into a realm unknown, a demon dwells on paths untaken, and amongst paths not meant to tell. Trapped illuminating the world from a lamp, the demon struggles to become complete and to seek One. In this story from our garden we learn more than what has passed from our own realms, we hear from our ancestors—we tap into Talmudic reverie (Gittin 68a/b) if only to understand that each being, in any moment, has a world that depends in some small measure upon the past, and also, inevitably, upon the world to come.
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
Under the Fig Tree
A story about garden creatures that are interrupted during their complex and overwhelming lives when humans that dwell in their midst break the world around them.
The Naming Queue
A story of a being, half man and half woman, who grants names, one at a time, to garden creatures that 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.
Outside the Garden
A story told in a lyric style of original humans that grapple with choices 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 very own hands.
Adam's Belly-button and Flying Fish
How Adam in the Garden of Eden discovers where his belly-button came from.