Selene is a "non-essential" crew member on a generational spaceship that classifies artists as insane. She and her fellow non-essential artists are given a rather unique assignment: create art they find beautiful, with no angle of making it essential for life on board the ship. As they hone their art skills, Selene teams up with a troubled sculptor and learns just how dangerous art--and being non-essential--can be. This novella takes place on the spaceship Godspeed and deals with characters seen in the Across the Universe series. You can read it without reading the novels, although it might be more fitting to read it after A Million Suns.

Autumn Among the transitional winds Of decline and melancholy, She silently bleeds In exhilarating beauty.

We all live with memories, memories of all kinds which engulf us until we either reminisce or relive them. Leading us to the feeling of bittersweet intoxication, overwhelming the very core of our being. Perhaps the recollection itself coupled with these powerful emotions reverberate through places, through time and space leaving us somewhat powerless to this magnetic chain reaction. The hushed words totally comprehended, the darkness of the night in utter bareness, the unspeakable sorrow deeply rooted, splintered hearts scattered, forgotten, abandoned and the physical emptiness of everything yet the presence of another. And despite all, we still find strength in the fragility of these moments, outlive and conquer them however difficult, heartbreaking, or unbearable, they are but most of all, transcend. These poems somehow cover them all. So hold my hand, walk with me, see through my eyes, and cradle my soul as I serenade you to my crib and beyond.

The sun shines A bit of warmth, And the world Awakens. He revives the earth From death itself; His kiss, immaculate, Elevating and Illuminating, Our Spring.

This is a follow on collection from Windswept. In this collection I will examine the concept of love from a more ethereal perspective.

If the title didn't tell you want this story is about then there's no way I can explain it to you.