And So, It Happens...

Well, here I am again. Hello.... um...

Life continues. That's just it. There are so many things that have happened here, in myriad worlds of imagination and dreams. Looking back from all I know, reading the journal I originally scribbled these in, it is strange to see how much and how inconsistently I have changed. Probably the result of unusual dinners. Anyhow--what I mean is, so much of my life is spent here that at times I lose touch with that other place, Reality, and merely dwell within the pages of crazy neural eclipses.

So, from many perspectives and ages and immaturities, you may follow the stories I am now chronicling, exactly as I lived them. They don't all make much "sense." They are all more vivid than breath on a snowy morning, or kittens attacking string, or high school finals, to my brain.  Here is the next, exactly as I first printed it, though others will change, I know, under the scrutiny of an older eye.

"The Unexpected"

A regular crime-fighting Nancy Drew, Kate Summers finds herself running for her life. When one day she discovers the secret warehouse full of stolen SpyWere technology, sneaking away and reporting to the police, she is assailed by the evil mastermind of the place, who plants a promise as he is taken away: "Before four days and four years are out, I will find you and kill you for what you have done." (The guy really liked fours)...He tries over the years to gas her, drown her, strangle her, explode her...but as time continues, he disappears, and Kate forgets it all. She discovers by chance a world of fairies and nymphs, and feels at home flying through the forest and singing with animals, away from the foreboding of humans and taxes. Then, one day, an injured young man stumbles across her forest home. He is lost. Kate decides to help him, and over a very short time the two forge a deep, close bond--but one day, as they are walking through a new meadow, Kate falls into the spiked pit of a trans-dimensionally traveling poacher, slicing her thigh deeply. The young man tries to help, desperately, asking her name (though no one knows why he didn't think to ask before)-- then reels back in shock.  He is the evil old man, given a second chance at life--but she has no such thing, and fulfills his age-old promise on the cold forest floor. Until, the man, truly sorrowed by the debt of his actions, gives up his second chance to restore her life--and the magic regenerates them both. They live in the forest forever, telling stories to the birds and trees of the Worlds of Men.