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From the
Introduction to
Missing Time and
Other Stories: 13 Sidereal Crossings
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… All this to say that some very strange stories lie in wait for you in
these pages, stories, hopefully, like none that you have ever read before.
My dictionary has a second definition for "sidereal": Measured in reference
to the apparent motion of the stars. In this, we come closer to my
reason for including that word in the title of this collection. We are
all moving in reference to the apparent motion of something - significant
others, employers, religions, governments, cultures - the list of "realities"
we measure ourselves by and against is a long one, and personal to each
of us. But by what process do we select the measuring rods we will label
"real" for ourselves? To what degree do our choices connect us to or separate
us from other people and "consensus reality?" And what happens to us if
our chosen "realities" prove unreal?
If there is one overriding theme to the stories in this volume, it is this:
An ordinary Joe (or Joanne) faces extraordinary circumstances, and discovers
that everything he/she thought was real is not. He/She must then be transformed
to survive. This is literature of transformation…
- Missing Time and Other Stories:
13 Sidereal Crossings, Page 6
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