Time-and-space Stories

There was a time when man was damaged. They fought and killed--utterly consumed by their lust for power, knowledge and immortality. But now they longer need to. When an alien race, known as the Prym, offers to give humanity all they desire, man accepts it-even when the price is the temporary forsaking of their firstborns . However, the cost of power is always more than it seems... ...and man should remember just how damaged they truly are.

In a cemetery shimmering with autumnal light, L.C. confronts the fresh grave of her beloved J.S., paralyzed by grief's crystalline weight. As memories of hospital vigils merge with the chill of an iron bench, she encounters a mockingbird-not merely a bird, but an echo of urban dawns when J.S. marveled at its alchemy of transforming city clamor into elegiac melodies. This feathered sentinel, motionless as a Vermeer subject, becomes a catalyst for transcendence: when L.C. attempts to photograph it, the creature vanishes, replaced by a spear of light that seems to carry the warmth of J.S.'s final touch. Through this luminous metamorphosis-where a smartphone captures stardust instead of wings-she apprehends love's alchemical persistence beyond death. The mockingbird's resumed song, now interwoven with their shared joys, etches a bridge between memory and eternity, as twilight's indigo embrace affirms that sorrow sublimates into enduring light.