Category: The World
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The Wider World Within
Hold out your hands. Imagine a box, a box small enough to fit in your hands. Imagine this box in your hands. What shape is it? What colour is it? Is it heavy? Open the box slowly, and look inside. Inside the box, there is a door. An open door inside the now open box.…
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Sponsored by Twilight
In March 2011, I misread a label whilst out shopping. Not to say that I have particularly poor eyesight, I misread the word ‘pencils’ for ‘incense’. Yes, I know they are nothing alike, but when your mind is focussed on the word ‘Twilight’, it’s an easy mistake to make. If you’re me. And in a…
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Beyond the Horizon
The sky was exciting that night. Reds and golds, and blacks and purples swirled and blended, yet remained completely separate from each other. The colours cast their reflections and shadows simultaneously across the vast and empty ocean. The destination was far beyond what could be seen of the horizon, but the journey had to be…
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Fire and Ice: A New World Discovered
Reports are coming in of a newly discovered giant water-world, a mere 40 light years away from Earth. The planet is said to be over two and a half times bigger than Earth, and observations from the Hubble Telescope indicate that most of the planet’s mass is water. It is also said to have a…