Tarazedi Posts

A long time ago when all the worlds were new and your grandparents were yet young, there was a speck of gold.

It rests on a black disk the size of your hand. The disk is so dark you really can’t see it. There are voids in the modern universe, billions of light-years across, so profoundly empty and vast the surrounding galaxies cannot be seen within them. This disk is dark like that, a hole in the light surrounding it, finely made. You cannot tell if there is even a substance here.

If you reach out to touch it, will … click to continue reading

“The Flowing Star” (Kindle)

Five billion years ago, a blazing energy is freed from a star going nova. But what happens when she falls in love with the rains of a new world?

Chapter 13: The Flowing Star

Hey! How much of you is there?

A few octillion atoms? Oh, so tiny! You’re absolutely adorable. I’d give you a hug if I wasn’t already.

I see you’re confused. Or is that irritated? I’m sorry. Let me try to explain.

I’m about four point seven billion years old. Yes, I’m older than your beautiful planet. I’m also bigger than … click to continue reading

“The Spider and the Mala” (Kindle & Paperback)

When an actress hears the call of the stars and travels ever outward, where will her heart take her when her beloved calls her back to the Earth and the Moon?

Chapter 1

Perhaps Aranti fell to earth in a shower of red rain, or perhaps it was just raining on the day she was born during the joyous bustle of Onam. Some historians have claimed with a great sagacity that since her birthday fell on Thiruvonam, her mother’s brow would have been adorned with the special bindi … click to continue reading

“The Prince and the Dragon” (Kindle & Paperback)

When a young prince meets a beautiful girl from a faraway world, what gift might he give her to prove his love, and dangers await when his quest leads beyond time and space, beyond himself, into the World of Dream?

Chapter 1

A long time ago when all the worlds were new and your grandparents were yet young, there lived on a distant world a young prince whose name (as closely as we can spell it in the letters of this day and age) was Yian. Of his … click to continue reading

I walk in the beauty You have surrounded me with, trees lush with spring bloom, adorned with new green and flowers of red and white and purple that did not trouble to wait until May. Your sweet, gentle shower sings softly upon my umbrella and the pavement I walk. Birds darting tree to tree over power lines and houses are surely laughing at me as I plod over slabs of fake stone and dodge dark puddles in my futile effort to remain dry.

I look into Your silvered sky with clouds drifting by and feel the love everywhere within … click to continue reading

“The Jewel and the Stage” (Kindle)

When all the world is a stage, what precious things may one find upon it?

Chapter 1: The Amethyst

02 October 2155 CE (14 Kanni 1331 KE)
Sol III

The audience sits in respectful silence as the sun sets over the Pacific, outside the Temple theater’s great western window.

Waves of purple bioluminescence—temporary, of course, and carefully managed by the environmental control staff—lap at the base of the window, dappling it with a subtle glow well-matched by the deep violet dusk. The subtle pulsation of light from the screens surrounding the window underscores … click to continue reading

“The First Star” (Kindle)

Thirteen billion years ago, the First Star and a tiny Diamond Planet fell in love. But what gifts can they give to each other and to the universe?

Chapter 1: The First Star

A long time ago, before there were worlds and your grandparents were not yet born, there lived the Star.

She was beautiful beyond words. Beauty had not even been named except perhaps by the split-second sentient sparkles spilling the soup of primordial ylem in those first days before time had fully taken hold. If any of them had the privilege of … click to continue reading