[Critique Group 2] Emailing: Meet you in the Intermissional sauna...piece for next critique session/once again, my apologies for forgetting to paste the piece in the body of the email. This happens because at work I only send attachments and am programmed that way. BC

[James]

Meet you in the Intermissional sauna
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 961

"Hello, my old friend, I have been waiting for you. But where were you, you
look terrible!" 

"I was on a small obscure planet named Earth. I don't recommend the place at
all. I mean, the planet was beautiful once but the highest level life forms
have turned the place into a workhouse out of a Dickens novel." 

"What are you talking about and what in the universe is a "Dickens novel?"

"Oh, sorry, Dickens was a great story teller on Earth. Hey can someone pour
some more water on those rocks, I really need to cleanse Earth off myself!"

"Yes, sorry I have been ungracious. More water and a soft cloud towel for
your comfort." 

AH, balm for the returning warrior. I really do need some to recover from
that last mission."

"Of course my friend, decompress for as long as you need. I won't bother you
with annoying questions until you have sloughed off the detritus of your
trying mission."

"Thanks, I will tell my story after I have chilled in this lovely warm
place---well you know what I mean." 

"So, wake up my friend it has been one half an era and you appear like your
old self again." "Yes, thank you I do feel fully unburdened. But how long
have you been here?" 

"Oh, quite a while. My last mission was on Eridani-B-prime where the life
forms Clantajanet living rock beings have 10 Era long life spans. So, I had
no trouble getting extended time here in the sauna." 

"Well, good for you. One good thing about these crazy multiple mission
journeys that we're all on is , they do allow for much quality time in
between." 

"Oh sure, they are very lenient about time. I mean, you could remain here
for an Eon or two before anyone even began to try to move the process along.
And, even after this there is the cherishing and channeling to go through
and that also takes a good long time. When all that is over you are all gung
ho to choose another suitable mission and take the next step on your journey
back to The Clearlight."

"Perhaps, but even after all that, I think I will retain some memory of my
Earth mission. The highest level beings; they call them humans really, well,
suck!" 

"They do what?" "Oh sorry again just a term they use a lot down there. For
example, when I was a roving wave lattus on Aldeberon-4, it wasn't the best
of all missions but at least things made sense there. Earth, forget it! The
creatures there-wow! They have such great potential but their most important
values are greed and popular fancy. It is so discouraging!"

"Well yes, that doesn't sound like much fun. Is it worse than a mission as a
Plutonian cave slug?" 

"Oh yeah, I'd be a PCS anytime over a human. They do have lower life forms;
I think they call them dats and cogs which are pretty cool. I suggest if you
are ever mad enough to choose to mission there, be one of those. Just forget
about being one of those totally frustrating human creatures. You won't
believe it but they have actually created a mechanism to destroy their
entire species and much of the planet and its other life forms."

"Really? I mean, why? Are they extraordinarily stupid?"

"No, they are not exactly stupid but they don't work and play well with one
another. They love to create artificial divisions between groups of
themselves so they can fight."

"Why do they do that? I must say it sounds pretty stupid to me!"

"I really don't know why. That is the frustrating part as they also do
things which cause them to appear as beings with great compassion. It is so
confusing. The dats and cogs try to help them by offering unconditional love
and the humans do love their pets but they never learn to extend such love
to each other."

"Wait a minute, what is a pet?" "Sorry again, I really have to stop using
their expressions. When a dat or cog lives with them, they call it a pet. I
think this means that this is a designation that the dat or cog is a
delightful and enjoyable possession of the human it lives with."

"Very curious and strange! How can other living beings be possessions?"

"It is even worse than that, in their recent history, they did the same
thing with members of their own species."

"Wow, so they have created the means to destroy themselves and they enslave
their own kind and other intelligent species. I am beginning to understand
why you have been so affected by your mission there."

"I am just hoping that when I receive the cherishing and channeling that I
gain a greater understanding of that place through The Clearlight."

"For your sake, I hope so too! I would suggest (if it fits your development
profile) a mission on Synclavier-2 as one of their cloud beings. It is very
peaceful and you get to observe and learn a lot." 

"Well thanks, I will keep that suggestion in mind and will consider it very
seriously at the time of choosing. But wait, another of our old companions
has just entered the sauna. Let us greet our old friend."

"Old friend we both welcome you! But you look awful. What happened?"

"Oh may The Clearlight preserve me. I just came from a mission in a terrible
place called."

"Don't say it" said the first two old friends "I think we can guess!  More
water for the rocks, quickly please!"


Dedicated to the memory and work of Kurt Vonnegut.
 
 
jamesstarfire at gmail.com


  
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