“Surprise!” God implies. Our lives take a sharp turn in moments of the absurd. You opened a window, and a hummingbird flew in. You took a left turn and met your new best friend. Your life was spared when you walked through a door, not realizing it was there. Everything, everything, a calculated accident, something kept hidden from perceptual faculties, a Nothingness, God, the creation of surprise splitting masculine and feminine to what was, what is, and ever shall be …in a

We tend to think creation comes from effort or imagination, but sometimes something simply arrives. Not built, not planned, but maybe recognized by accident. When action and possibility meet at the right intensity, a third energy emerges. It feels like a mistake, yet precise, like noticing something that was always there. Maybe serendipity isn’t luck at all, but what happens when we allow ourselves to meet fully in both.

“What is 2 + 2?” Winston turned the electrical machine on. The dial was all the way down. The woman giggled, “What would you like me to...

Strawberry “Why do you want this job, Cecil Caperna?” The rain was seeping through the drain, running all the way to toska. The woman...

What pops up in my mind when thinking of the void. Some discussion has been roaming around about my story, The Mermaid, and my ongoing...

Mermaids slumber in the quatervois of spring “Why do you not submerge, sweet little things?” But they titter at one’s thanatophobia because— “Stulta mulier.” If you touch reflecting waters, time will not lose grace. “But will it take my pain away?” “Meliorism will get the best of you throw down your sword of virtue. Submerge into the deep. Laugh with us as we sing: The fishermen are coming. The fishermen are coming. Don’t you swim under... Oceanus absorbebit te.” There are m

When I began studying Metaphysics and Phenomenology, I thought about the sensation of peripheral vision, of knowing something is there. Still, it sits behind a veil of what is to be revealed. The way I describe the metaphysical is like a net with a hole in it. When discussing philosophy, we submerge a net with a large hole into the water. We know we have caught something , but by the time we bring the net back up to the surface, the something has already swam away into the de