secure this beckoning sunshine

( two tales )



Verginia by Alex Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Two cities stand on a plain.

( Inhabitants of the city in the west look eastward with scorn. ) What brazen people live in Inferno, and how marvelous a place is Paradiso!

Inhabitants of the city in the east look westward with pity. What tragedy, they say. What unnecessary shame. Do you know, they actually think it's possible to be expected, required to have sex? How horrible to be someone who is expected, required to be ashamed of who one is! Or of what one does, when what one does harms no one! What small dull painful lives people live in Hell, and how marvelous a place is Heaven!



Walls of Jasper by Elizabeth Conall is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.