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Category: Story

See What You Think About ThisXIV — I was wrong

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I was wrong. It did change. How can you hear the cries of others and not listen?

See What You Think About ThisXII — I get flashbacks of war

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I get flashbacks of war. But I wasn’t there

See What You Think About ThisXI — A man up along a road

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Now see what you think about this: a man up along a road stood next to a tan colored car.

See What You Think About ThisXI — Letters

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Letters. The writing on the brown envelope said: photocopies as requested.

See What You Think About ThisX — This isn’t my natural line of work

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

As I mentioned, this isn’t my natural line of work. I just fell into it.

See What You Think About ThisXII — Every now and then

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

Every now and then the old man would rock back on his heels. Every now and then.

See What You Think About ThisXI — You must listen intently to the sound in your ears

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

You must listen intently to the sound in your ears. It’s a carrier signal.

See What You Think About ThisX — March the seventeenth

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

March the seventeenth. Thinking about the body guard: got shot.

See What You Think About ThisIX — I spent two weeks in hospital

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I spent two weeks in the hospital. I can remember getting there.

See What You Think About ThisVIII — There’s a spider

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

There’s a spider crawling on the counter.

See What You Think About ThisVII – I awake with a start

By
  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I awake with a start, and then slip back to this time.

See What You Think About ThisVI — I stab the cherry tomato

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  • John Fellenor
| 10 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I stab the cherry tomato with my fork; trying hard to not let it shoot off the plate or squirt seeds at me.

See What You Think About ThisV — People get killed

By
  • John Fellenor
| 9 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

People get killed. Are hollow. They come up to me like clear outlines with no insides, no complexity.

See What You Think About ThisIV — The dirt falls from the shovel

By
  • John Fellenor
| 8 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

The dirt falls from the shovel all too slowly. I swear it doesn’t want to cover her body: it keeps slipping off to the edges.

See What You Think About ThisIV — People talking in the hotel bar

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  • John Fellenor
| 7 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

People talking in the hotel bar. A couple maybe mid-sixties.

See What You Think About ThisIV — I wait here every day

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  • John Fellenor
| 6 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

I wait here every day for somebody to come in.

See What You Think About ThisIII — And after the bar?

By
  • John Fellenor
| 5 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

And after the bar? What happened after the bar, he asked.

See What You Think About ThisII — We stop at the next bench

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  • John Fellenor
| 4 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

We stop at the next bench, only a few yards away and she sits gently.

See What You Think About ThisII — On the edge of a main highway

By
  • John Fellenor
| 3 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

On the edge of a main highway that runs through a small desert town.

See What You Think About ThisI — Nominal Starting Point

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  • John Fellenor
| 2 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

This acts as some kind of nominal starting point. Because it was.

See What You Think About ThisI — It’s a bit embarrassing

By
  • John Fellenor
| 1 Apr 2019 Filed Under:
See What You Think About This:
Fiction (Intensification), Hide from home page, Story

It’s a bit embarrassing. I’m worried about stretch marks on my back.

DeeAshley, The Day That The World Didn’t End. [CC BY-NC]

Testimony

By
  • Gurmeet Singh
| 15 Mar 2019 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Story

Maybe in the future she’d embody the pure-feminine-ideal or something, but right now Suraj had to explain just who Judy was and why she killed herself…

Minoan Fresco from Akrotiri, circa 1650-1550 B.C.

The Goddess as Active Listener (Parts 5–10)

By
  • Brian George
| 22 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Story

When I remember Sue Castigliano, I think of almost naked dancers vaulting above the gold-tipped horns of Cretan bulls, to the sound of waves breaking in the distance. Wandering with the ghosts of an exploded island empire, I enter the doors of a library that I first thought was an octopus. When I think of her, I see wheat bound in sheaves…

Victor Brauner, Disintegration of Subjectivity, 1951 (detail)

The Goddess as Active Listener (Part 4)

By
  • Brian George
| 12 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Story

“It is said that when the student is ready the teacher will appear. Luckily, the teacher may also choose to appear when the student is not at all ready. She drags him, if need be kicking and screaming, into a new, more direct, but also more paradoxical relationship with the self…”

The Goddess as Active Listener (Parts 1-3)

By
  • Brian George
| 3 Dec 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Interviews, Longform/Essays, Mythos, Poetics (Originary Powers), Story

Are we meant to have certain experiences, or to connect with certain people rather than with others? The more romantic among us are used to thinking that there may be one true soul-mate for each person. It is less common to imagine that friends or teachers may also play their parts in this apparent drama of predestination.

Tales of a Venezuelan ExpatTales of a Venezuelan Expat: Dispatch #1 (Don’t cry for me, Argentina)

By
  • Eduardo Próspero
| 3 Nov 2018 Filed Under:
Tales of a Venezuelan Expat:
Featured, Society (Multitudes), Story

I’m lost in space. Lost. As it turns out the poets were right, you can’t go back home again. The Venezuela that raised me doesn’t exist anymore, that much everybody knows, but the situation got so unendurable that I’m finally aware of my limits. As it turns out I’m not an indestructible machine but a leaf floating in the wind, directionless and at the mercy of the gods.

The Glory of Groove

By
  • Liane Gabora
| 3 Oct 2018 Filed Under:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Story

Meet Sidney (aka the Sacred Scribe)—a PhD candidate in Physics with a problem in the paradoxical human realm of love. What does a love triangle look like in the fourth dimension? Quantum indeterminacy rules, as Sidney and her friends explore a bold new cosmology uniting Science and Spirituality, and Sidney’s “wave function” must decide between the primal magnetism of Bruno, her friendship with Alyzia, and the life of her mind and creative soul.

Candy Countdown

By
  • Richard Sleboe
| 12 Sep 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

Did I dream it all? I guess I did. But then I see the card on the table. I pick it up. It feels real. TAKE THE ELEVATOR, it says. Did I?

Come Again

By
  • Joanna Hoyt
| 5 Sep 2018 Filed Under:
Featured, Fiction (Intensification), Story

These people in the church with him today have heard all those words over and over, they can’t really hear them any more. He remembers other words: If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead.

Thomas Cole, The Course of Empire: Destruction

The Mythopoetic Mind of PlatoThe Mythopoetic Mind of Plato

By
  • Luke Kernan
| 5 Oct 2017 Filed Under:
The Mythopoetic Mind of Plato:
Culture (Transformation), Featured, Longform/Essays, Philosophy (Eteolegeme), Poetics (Originary Powers), Poetry, Story

We are always living in a story, always present in a myth. The key is to possess mindfulness towards worldviews and their presence in the awakened self—they are analytical frameworks of the mind that first allow the universe to be experienced in a specific manner and then formulated into pure, specific “understandings” about the nature of that universe.

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    • Synthesis of Yoga Practicum
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    • Writing Off the Deep End
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Metapsychosis is a project of Cosmos Cooperative, a creative co-op for people with "visionary tendencies." Learn more at Cosmos.coop »

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