Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Strange. Surreal. Shocking. Beautiful.
Listen to our audio presentation of “The Face of Heaven So Fine” by Kat Howard. Narrated by Lynne M. Thomas.
I am not going to begin this story at the beginning. That would be the easy thing, and stories are not easy.
There is an entire history in the stars. Light takes time to travel, to get from wherever the star is to wherever we can see it, here, on Earth. So when you think about it, when we see the stars, we are looking back in time. Everything those stars actually shone on has already happened. But just because a story already happened, that doesn’t mean it’s finished.
Kora had heard the rumors. They were everywhere that fall, blown on the wind along with the golden fans of fallen ginkgo leaves. Everyone claimed to know someone who had been invited, though Kora spoke to no one who had attended.
He wrote me into a story again. I told him to stop doing that, after we broke up. In fact, it was one of the reasons we broke up. I mean, being a muse is all well and good, until you actually become one.
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