bookmark_borderCentric Shorts

Keep in mind this is ROUGH draft!

Part One – Prologue:

With the explosion, dust and other matter was blown in all directions. Some was sucked in but most was sent out. If time existed then, it would have seemed to be both extremely slow and extremely fast.

Swirls of dust and matter begin being drawn together, caught in each others minute magnetic fields. As the globules grew in size, they produced gravitational fields, influencing other globules around them.

Spheres joined with other spheres either physically or in the dance of opposing fields. Spirals of dust spheres and wafts of organized gas formed in groups.

In the distant future, these spirals and swirls and gatherings would be called wochat, brfxi, universes and other terms. Organic beings came into existence long after the explosion. Long after the dancing had begun. Minuscule organisms formed in the muck, some to go no further, others to grow until they could climb out. Some became vegetation. Others became beings capable of voluntary movement and awareness and understanding of that movement – chordates, ectotherms, herbivores, insectivores, bipeds, quadrupeds, more and any combination thereof.

But unlike the dust and gas spheres, these beings were capable of altering the space around them. They could choose where to go and what to do. They were noesis – the result of perception and learning and reasoning.

But the spheres could not choose. Long before choice was an option, they were caught in those magnetic and gravitational fields. The vast majority of them, roughly 99.99%, did not have the electrical capacity of cognition. Gas spheres never did. Dust spheres too far from a star were slowed by the cold. Too close to the star and they were over-heated.

On the rare occasion that the electrical forces formed with just the right amount in just the right places, cognition began.

bookmark_borderOut of Town

This message is scheduled to appear as I am getting on the plane.

I am heading to Orlando FL to “do Disney” with my brother (Kev), his wife (Col), my nephew (Ryan), and my niece (Kelli). The kids don’t know I will be joining them. It’s this huge surprise that we cooked up. I even called them today and said I wished I could have worked it so I could join them.

Anyway, no one knows. Lorna does, of course, kinda hard to keep that from her. But my parents don’t know, Col’s family doesn’t know, etc.

We won’t have ‘net access while we are there unless we find some connection somewhere. Not sure if we will soooo, I thought I’d do the snippet thing like I did before.

This time I will give post chapters of the SF book I keep picking at. What I have written is all short scenes to work out details. I’m thinking this will be this years NaNoWriMo project. It has been researched and planned to death for two years now. Reckon it is time to take it off the back burner, eh?

So, have fun reading it. I get back to the house Saturday (13th) and should be back online that night or probably not until the next day.