Light and Dark: each was unaware that the other existed.

“At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light…

— Ashim Shanker

“A bracing wind swirls about the boy and alights gently upon his shoulder to gape frightfully at droplets of fate joined infirmly to a…

— Ashim Shanker

“The arrow of time obscures memory of both past and future circumstance with innumerable fallacies, the least trivial of which is perception.”

— Ashim Shanker

“While he lived on and on, freezing and thawing, these mortals went through routines, lived and died, unaware that he even existed. ‘It’s”

— Hugh Howey

“In my mind, I could sense their roots under the soil, creeping in helical tangles of ever-increasing complexity outward and in all directions—out beyond…

— Ashim Shanker

“His hatred for all was so intense that it should extinguish the very love from which it was conceived. And thus, he ceased to…

— Ashim Shanker

“The passage that he had found in the book had been riddled with ambiguities and contradictions only reserved for those most valiant in overriding…

— Ashim Shanker

“He had given himself over to endless wanderings, a life of migration from life-to-life, albeit not necessarily a set of migrations one must view…

— Ashim Shanker

“What indeed is the half-life of a mortal consciousness? What is the half-life of a memory of that mortal consciousness? Of course, this is…

— Ashim Shanker

“These facilities were relatively rustic even for this area of the world. Other inns at least had indoor plumbing and electricity. Most even had…

— Ashim Shanker

“There will be times in which things appear hopeless. You will begin to doubt everything around you. You will even begin to doubt yourself.…

— Ashim Shanker

“Fortunately, most of our vital physiological functions are involuntary, as some amongst us would forget them.”

— Stewart Stafford

“Each person has a self-image that, to some degree, does not match reality. A significant difference between self-image and reality can be harmful. The…

— Robert H. Bolton and Dorothy Grover Bolton

“Trust is an illusion meant to wrap one in a false sense of belief, in that moment of realization will despair ultimately set in.”

— Lolah Runda

“When we are healthy, wealthy and powerful, we forget about our mortality. It’s only when irreparable cracks set in that we come back to…

— Bangambiki Habyarimana