Amber-Heart

It's just about the most beautiful place on Earth. Near the waterfalls and streams laced throughout the park everything is layered with a blanket of mist that makes the air feel heavier as you pull it into your lungs. When you close your eyes at night, you can hear a million little dripping noises over the crackling fire that we always keep blazing. There are trails everywhere, but we always chose a direction with a compass and walk off that way in the afternoon, and stay out in the woods for hours, stalking deer, or watching lizards. Sometimes we go sit out in little empty glades we find up at the summits of hills, and when you look around t

So...now you say, "But Michael! Surely there is no possible way that the church and science could ever possibly agree on something!" But that's wrong. As Dad tells it, the shockwave from his clap released a cosmic amount of energy and heat, which somehow formed some tremendously dense matter. Later on, when you hairless apes became "civilized," you named it the universe. It's still growing actually. I remember when it was smaller. So, after Dad did the whole thing with the Big Ka-Boom, the matter spread, and began to make stuff. Stuff…I love the word stuff! Best thing since the Neanderthals' poetry. And they were good. It was beautiful. I w

Chapter One: A Dire Warning No, I will not explain the meaning of life. I honestly don't even know what it is. As far as I'm concerned it's just because Dad was bored of empty nothingness. I'm told it's no good for parties. In any case, no heavenly secrets out of me, you little ingrates! Or not many, anyways. Being trapped in a little tiny box like this with Lu tends to make you forget boundaries, 'specially since we've spent forty years ripping out each others hairs one at a time. Or four months. I don't know anymore. I lost track of time. It's different down here. As an author's footnote, I think it's pertinent to add that this probably