Hello Forum Friends (and Happy Easter, those of you who 'do' Easter; everyone else: Happy Season, Whatever it May Be for You!)
A little while ago I began posting a narrative to this forum with a very slow, near-absent plot, which was meant to start to make sense over time and slot in with some other work I'd done (some of which also appeared on here). This met with fierce opprobrium from one member here, and I was so taken aback I thought I'm probably in the wrong place with this kind of thing. So I paused that story and stopped posting anything for a few weeks because I don't really want to (nor do I want to have to) argue about or defend my writing, I'm just happy to share it in case anybody finds anything in it that speaks to them. Still, I was travelling for a bit, and now looking back at that little episode I reckon I may well have overreacted, it was, after all, just one reader who simply didn't like what I'd written.
So what I'm about to start posting now comes with a BIG CAVEAT: The Planet Walk is really not so much of a story as an exploration. Like The Snowflake Collector, The Ice King, Pyromania, and the half-abandoned, half-stalled Revival referred to above, it forms part of an ongoing experimental online publishing project called EDEN by FREI, but unlike The Snowflake Collector, for example, which is a 'proper' traditionally structured story with a central character and a beginning, a middle and an end, The Planet Walk has none of these.
So: I offer it here in the spirit of sharing and communion. It may not be your cup of tea. If that's the case, fair enough. Just hit the back button or some other link and stop reading it. You may find it hard going, fair enough. If you relish a bit of a challenge, you might just like to persevere, but if you don't: there's another story by someone else just a click away. If it raises any questions or if you have any comments that are in some way or other constructive, or if you find a spelling mistake (you may and will find some unusual, as in hitherto 'non-existent' vocabulary...) – I welcome your communication. But if it causes you pain: please don't feel obliged to read on. Just shut the computer and pick up a good book.
That said: if it is your cup of tea, or a taste you think you could (or could wish to try in parts to) acquire: enjoy...
LOVE & PEACE
FREI