It seemed to me that I was high up in space. Far below I saw the globe of the earth, bathed in a gloriously blue light. I saw the deep blue sea and the continents. Far below my feet lay Ceylon, and in the distance ahead of me the subcontinent of India.

Only an anachronistic lack of informed self-reflection would lead one to suppose that an intelligent, alien life-form would be even remotely like ourselves. Evolution is an unceasing river of forms and adaptive solutions to special conditions, and culture is even more so.

The distorted energy fields around the demon scrambled radio communication nearby and made people dizzy.

a cosmic journey

Many things happened which do not survive as words.

I opened the bin and a tiny fruit fly flew out, going right into my eye.

We were gathering at the academy for a new lesson, it was a right of passage for new alchemists to learn how to work together in guilds.