Nearly a Stranger

How could you ever know how it is to have a universe roiling around you—in you? Tearing you apart limb by atom, while not giving you the courtesy to scream? Humbly presenting love and laughter with its back turned to you?

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The story of a meeting between a bodyless, multiversal entity and a middle-aged woman named Veronica. Is it possible for anything approaching friendship to exist between people of such different experiences?

It isn't cosmic horror. Cosmic beauty, perhaps? It is a surreal, expansive-yet-intimate, and often mindbending story told from two perspectives: one human, one far beyond human.

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Read the pdf or epub for free! Or you can get the recording for $1.50.

The text's a little over 5600 words, or about 20 pages (with big font), and the recording is about 35 minutes.

Let me know what y'all think of it, either in the comments of this post or through my email (uluscri@gmail.com) :)!