zanelle

zanelle
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Alpine, California, United States
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December 07
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I am here in cyberspace trying to understand the true nature of reality. My artwork can be seen in the blog link below. My 'Sex and Love' articles can be seen on Hayley's Comments http://hayleyscomments.com/

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FEBRUARY 17, 2012 9:19PM

The Misplaced Book / OS Weekend Fiction

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    Down below the street there was a small room.  In that room on a table was a book. 

     The book tells you how to survive.  If you are involved in an end of the world scenerio you should have some information handy and this was the only book in that basement room.   

       In the book on the table in the basement room were the signatures of two people who had been in that room during a catastrophic happening.   They had used the book and written notes in the margins.   

      One thing they wrote was that they wished they had a weapon and lots of bullets.   There seemed to be an endless stream of desperate people around them until in the end they were shot and left for dead by robbers.  They managed to live long enough to sign their names in the book amid some spatterings of blood.

     Their souls departed this earth and the wisdom in the book stayed with them into other realms.  Nothing is permanent but that which we transfer from one brain to another.   

     The book on the table in the basement room had divine instructions about how to survive this life and transfer that energy to other worlds.  Inside the pages were drawings of other parallel universes that the couple had visited frequently.   They wrote that they had known each other in many lives and by dying close to the book they were sending a message out to others about eternal life.

       There seemed to be a holy glow over that book on the table in the basement apartment.  However there were no human eyes to see it.   Dead and moved on.  Nothing is permanent.  

     The book crumbled into dust.  Off in the distance you could see the wind advance to pick up the fine scraps and whirl them off to other parts of the universe.   Small specks of book went to places where the couple lived again.  They recognized the book dust sifting thru the blinds in a sunbeam as it shown on their bed on a morning in February.

Book dust 

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Agree w/John. Very deep!
Zanelle ~ this is a great example of words being worth a thousand pictures+! The sh0t of the blanket on the bed with just a bit of light on it evokes many memories and thoughts, too.
The blanket photo and the story just they became one-over and over..
HUGGGGGGGGGGGG
Brilliant! I loved reading this first thing this morning. I'm a believer.
Air mail? Well told tale of intrigue and where we go when we go.
Oh, wow! This is sheer poetry. Of course I LOVE the last paragraph. I am weirdly touched by optimism.
R
Wow - I love the vivid imagery and the profundity. I felt so immersed in this.
Hi Zanelle, I enjoyed the read very much. It took me to that expanse of thinking how -- exactly where, could the universe begin, end -- or is it all together, like the mall underground in Minn.,MN. Or the one in Vegas, at Caesar's. I know that this is miles from your story; but I had that feeling of the expanse of things, this wondrous reaching. Great sense of what is beyond us. Or maybe a part of us that you are here to awaken? Mission accomplished.
Z, Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Who needs them when you are timeless?
Z, Belated HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Who needs them when you are timeless?
Sorry I'm late for the read. Dust in the wind, indeed! Nice use of the prompt, and photo.
R
Desolate and hopeful, grim and beautiful, terminal and infinite: you've said a lot in a few words. Well done!
"Nothing is permanent but what we transfer from one brain to another."
Brilliant. R