Xanthic
It was a xanthic apple, flush with gold and light as if it had soaked up the last beam of sunlight through its smooth skin. It hung high on the single branch still ripe with leaves and shoots. He hadn't climbed a tree in years but found the skill just slumbering in his brain, his fingers remembering how to grip and hold the knobs of the trunk, how to bend his toes into the narrow crevices in the crook of the branches. One branch broke, unwilling to hold his weight, and he hung in space for a minute, the crackling echo of the branch's betrayal ringing in his head while his toes scrambled in reverse back to a previous, more solid, hold. He hugged the tree, wrapped his arms tight about its broad warm trunk and waited for the echo of the falling branch to fade. The wind tugged at the tiny whips of winter branches, brushed his hair from his eyes and dipped the lone apple-laden branch towards him. Just a little higher, the wind whispered.
He climbed the tree for the golden apple. There was a girl in the city, a girl he wasn't supposed to see. She wasn't invisible, just so pale as to be nearly translucent like all the others who came from the cathedrals in the clouds. He could see through her and the only hint of her presence was the white robe that floated in much too geometric of a path to be a fluffly little cloud. Since he had seen her colorless face, he had wanted show her the beauty of color.
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
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