short story, Spirituality

The Great Wave of Synchronicity

Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa [Creative Commons License]

Wave. /weɪv/Noun: 1. a long body of water curling into an arched form and breaking on the shore.

August 2020. I tilt my birthday card back and forth. Waves, formidable and frozen behind plastic, shift, ever-so-slightly. They’re foreboding and grandiose, captured at their peak, foam overlapping seabed before the inevitable crash. 

short story

The Book of Secrets

The Book of Secrets. [Photo by Chris Lawton on Unsplash]

From a dream, or a half-sleep state, the magician awoke in communication with God. God told the magician that he was about to tell him all there was to know about life, the Holy Grail of truth.

However, there was one caveat.