However, I did not feel threatened by her, but rather, for the first time in a long time, I felt completely protected.
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The Long Way Home
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The Long Way Home
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I had no idea where she came from, and no matter how I inquired, her response was the same – silence.
The Long Way Home
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I could not believe it myself at first, but there she was an aggregate of what seemed to be a million tiny, incandescent balls of plasma held together by gravity just staring at me, or at least that was what I thought she was doing.
The Long Way Home
Posted in stories, tagged alexander, blood, coldplay, comfort, darkness, distinguish, doctor, ecouter, explore, fear, flesh, francais, french, frenchdashmusic, hakodate, hakodatedre, historian, history, home, hope, life, love, memoire, music, nightmare, nightmares, oasis, radiohead, refer, sex, stars, stories, time, unlike, writing on June 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
She, as I would refer to it from now on because I could not distinguish its sex, even if it had one, was unlike you or me in that she was not of flesh and blood, but rather she was completely made up of stars.
The Long Way Home
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This time I was accompanied by a most unusual fellow, or perhaps being or entity might have been more appropriate.
The Long Way Home
Posted in stories, tagged alexander, alone, coldplay, comfort, dandelions, darkness, doctor, dream, dreamt, ecouter, explore, family, fear, francais, french, frenchdashmusic, hakodate, hakodatedre, historian, history, home, hope, life, love, memoire, music, nightmare, oasis, radiohead, scared, stories, story, time, worried, writing on June 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I dreamt that I was far away, farther than anyone had gone before, but I was not scared, nor worried because I was not alone.
The Long Way Home
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The dreams I had that night were unexpectedly marvelous.
The Long Way Home 070
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The last image I remember of that night was the glittering of all those stars, as if they were calling, beckoning me to come up and visit them.
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The Long Way Home
Posted in stories, tagged alexander, awake, comfort, dandelions, darkness, doctor, dream, explore, family, fear, frenchdashmusic, hakodate, hakodatedre, history, home, hope, life, love, memoire, music, nightmare, short, story, time, writing on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As I was doing so I could feel my eyes growing heavier and heavier until I could no longer stay awake.
The Long Way Home
Posted in stories, tagged alexander, ceiling, coldplay, comfort, count, dandelions, darkness, doctor, dream, ecouter, explore, family, fear, francais, french, frenchdashmusic, gaze, glow, hakodate, hakodatedre, historian, history, home, hope, life, love, memoire, music, nightmare, oasis, potter, punk, radiohead, rock, short, sprawl, star, story, time, writing on June 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I didn’t start packing right away, but instead I sprawled on my bed gazing up at the ceiling covered in tiny stars that glowed in the dark, and started to count them one by one.
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