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Thirteen billion years ago, billows of hydrogen clouds filled the universe. You were there. Laplace’s demon traces back every hydrogen atom in your body to those cosmic cumuli. Let’s keep it simple and assume we’re just atoms and the void. Atoms self-organized over billions of years – into you. And what do you know? Astounding […]

Something changed in the night. Darkness, toiling against streetlights and the moon, thickened. An extravagant cry peeled from the priest. He dropped his crucifix and, slowly, as if melting, sank to his knees. Around him, razor lines of creased space folded near and far across each other in crazed Cubist angles. An owl’s eye glistened […]

Been a while since I published fiction. Here’s a postmodern paranormal plaything I wrote for the Halloween issue of Rabbit Hole Magazine: https://rabbitholemag.com/fiction-shadow-holds-the-shape/

What do we see? The struck posture of stars and stellar gas. It’s like we’re inside one of those ‘time-stands-still’ stories. (A favorite is Kingsley Amis’ The Green Man, where God visits the protagonist and time stops for all but them.) We can stare at a galaxy our whole lives and see hardly any movement. Yet, our […]

Darkness carries us. Dark energy bears the entire universe into a void of ever-accelerating expansion. Dark matter holds our ignorance in the gravitational grip of a mysterious voyager – starless shrouds enclosing galaxies – that comprise 21% of matter in the cosmos. Dark the self we think we are: dark our origins and the struggle […]

What we know about light we’ve known for over a hundred years: At the speed of light, time stops, space contracts to nothing. For light, reality is instantaneous. From our latest understanding of the very beginning of the universe – at the Big Bang – everything existed as pure light in a point a trillion […]