continued from previous Aspen had almost been chosen by the EoT. It was even possible that she may have been created by it, in much the same way that the phytoplankton variant had come into existence: born out of the conflict, chaos and desperation of climate change. A woman born inside a man’s body, Aspen … Continue reading A New Earth – Breaking Every Rule
continued from previous Aspen increasingly felt that she was not just Aspen. She was the plants, the animals. She was the ocean, the wind. She was Everything. But Everything was changing. And big parts of Everything were dying off. For Aspen, almost every day had become a living nightmare, because she was able to feel … Continue reading A New Earth – I am Everything (2)
continued from previous They parted ways, each one taking home one of Aspen’s delicious salads and heading to a cooler place. Aspen hadn’t told John her secret yet: that she had known where Petunia was buried from the moment that she stepped foot in that garden. That ever since her near-death experience and rescue by … Continue reading A New Earth – I am Everything
continued from previous Olivia waved from afar with one hand while resting her entire body on a big shovel. The early morning heat had pretty much exhausted her already, but the satisfaction that came from this morning’s garden work had brought a wide smile to her face. She had spent the past hour finally getting … Continue reading A New Earth – Petunia
continued from previous “Aspen?” John wasn’t sure if this was the real Aspen or the entheogenic one. His doubts disappeared when he felt the familiar imprint of her hug on his chest. He held her face up with both hands, as she looked up into his eyes with a curious stare: “How. Did. You...” John … Continue reading A New Earth – Night (4)
continued from previous He reached deep into his jacket and took out the packet of Black Sky that one of the Revelers had stuffed into his pocket as a goodbye present at the shelter. He held the tiny ziploc bag up to the faint light, looking at the transparent crystals inside. Turning the bag sideways … Continue reading A New Earth – Night (3)
continued from previous “What if the dawn never comes?” – John thought to himself as he sat in the twilight, right at the center of the three-seater couch that the previous tenants had abandoned when they left in a hurry. It was a fear that he had as a child, every time he went to … Continue reading A New Earth – Night (2)
continued from previous It is ironic how the search for perfection and order can be such a destructive force. Those who look for perfection will often end up achieving exactly the opposite: creating chaos. They will destroy everything, with the rationale that it wasn’t perfect. It needed to be rebuilt from scratch, bigger and better. … Continue reading A New Earth – Divorce
continued from previous “In fact, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. It would be perhaps the missing perspective in our understanding of life, and the way that our genetic code has been put together in a disordered, yet ordered way. All of this time science has been focusing on the sequences within our DNA that … Continue reading A New Earth – Made out of Chaos
continued from previous She closed the notebook shut with a single, slow but decisive hand movement. She kept on staring at it for a few seconds, almost in a comatose state, as she tried to wake up from her daydream. How could it be that the entire world was sitting inside a notebook, in a … Continue reading A New Earth – Disaster Gene
