This is a veritable lovefest. Fifteen Short Stories, some, perhaps, not so short, but all about... you've guessed it!
All stories—be they strange, visionary, comforting or enigmatic—are about love. Love of our home, our friends, the Universe, or even of a tropical plant; love of your daughter, or just each other… Of love before we were born, and lonesome love of that which is gone forever. Love of an idea. Or even just love of writing. If you love Love, you’ll love these stories. Love makes us all one.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
Ah, yes, Elizabeth's question was quite rhetorical. She knew. (1)
STUFFED PANDA
AROUND THE WORLD
THINGS CHANGE
DELICIOUS MONSTER
LOVERS
NINE MONTHS
THE MIRACLE
WONDROUS FLUTE
VIRUS
A NEW DRESS
ALMOST LIKE ITALY
MIRROR
FLASH
A MAN WHO COULDN’T DIE
THE JEWEL
Enough? Some of these stories inspired later novels. Some came to me on waking, or even earlier, when still in a loving if chimerical embrace of Orpheus or perhaps Eurydice. Or it might have been Erato strumming her lyre... she also had something to do with them. Yet of one thing you can be certain, love was by far the greatest inspiration.
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Love is a very enigmatic energy. While the centrifugal energy, fueled by diversity generated by our biological computers, is responsible of the eternal expansion of the Universe, love, the centripetal energy keeps us together.
It makes us One.
And it is by far the most powerful force in the Phenomenal Universe. No matter how many, probably countless, lifeforms throughout the countless planets circling the countless suns through the infinity of space, continue contributing to the expansion of our illusive reality, love still makes us ONE. It draws us into a singularity of Becoming that radiates from the originality of Being.
E pluribus unum, remember?
Most people must have forgotten what the expression means. And yet, is, or at least was, the most important factor in temporal success of the most powerful country on Earth. Alas...
Sic transit gloria mundi...
Yet love remains. Like all energies, love can metamorphose into countless expression, but it can never be destroyed.
Enjoy!
(1) Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnet 43
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