Sunday, December 11, 2011

Six Sentence Sunday - From "The Fountain of Eden: A Myth of Birth, Death, and Beer"


All the beings that made up Trickstertron laughed at the top of their lungs. The cacophony of hilarity was deafening, and everyone in the universe could hear the insane hooting, giggling, cackling, snickering. The sound gave one the urge to laugh in the face of destruction, and made one realize that concepts such as birth and death were illusions. There were no such things as beginning and end, real and unreal, good and evil, order and chaos, creation and destruction.

These dual concepts did not exist, for Trickstertron was all of Creation.

And Creation was Trickster.

7 comments:

  1. My head is still spinning, lol. I don't mind birth and death being myths, but beer? ;) Very cool 6, Dan.

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  2. Thanks, Cara! And thanks for commenting. Yeah, Hoppy Heaven Ale is perhaps the most delicious fictional beer no one will ever drink. After all, it's brewed with the Water of Life. Six pints and Eternal Life is yours!

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  3. Sounds interesting. Where will you go from here?! :-)

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  4. Real far, Krystal, if I could get my hands on some of that sweet mythical brew. After a millennium or three of practice (yes, it might take that long) I'd be the greatest writer who ever lived! But if you mean with the story, it's already published. Just click the image above for the Amazon link. Irreverent comic fantasy at its finest, which means its lowliest.

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  5. Very distinctive voice. I love the idea of everything being a joke.

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  6. This is great, Dan--you're talented, you've got a damn quirky sense of humor, and I'm glad I found you :) Will be back for more--I cannot believe you'd let this Hoppy Heaven go undrunk.

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  7. Chrissey, the "life's a joke, so laugh a little more" theme runs throughout the novel. It's filled with Tricksters, and that's their MO.

    Guilie, there is most assuredly some imbibing of adult beverages in the book. But if too many humans attain Eternal Life, the Wheel of Birth and Death will be knocked from its axis and Shiva will appear in the sky as the Cosmic Dancer and two-step the universe right out of existence. Humans cannot become like the gods. It never turns out well (think "Great Flood"). For anybody.

    Thanks for the kind comments, guys.

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