Month: September 2020

Time moved slowly in the night desert. The Star poured the pitchers continuously into the oasis and the parched sand. A howling wind made the night scene haunting. The Fool thought of ghosts watching him from the darkness beyond the Star’s light. A shiver went up the Fool’s spine. He heard whispering from somewhere in […]

Time with the Lovers moved slowly, like cold molasses. They played all day and made love every night. The Fool would sometimes not talk to them for days. Rarely the time would come when the Fool would spend any time with either of the Lovers one-on-one.  I was the queen of a far off land, […]

The Fool could smell smoke as he walked deeper into the cave, away from the Devil. He felt his way further and further from the opening, where the giant silhouette of a demon still waited for him. Forward it got darker until he couldn’t see anything at all. Suddenly he found himself on a great […]

As the Emperor dealt with his subjects, the Fool walked around the canyon and found a large oak tree. As he got closer he could see a body lying in repose on a catafalque in the shade of the giant tree. Four swords hung above the body on the tree by heavy nails. A familiar […]

Death stared at the Fool with grinning menace, the scythe leaning on the bloody soil amongst the talking body parts. The Fool was filled with dread. He couldn’t read the skull’s facial expression. Was he to die now? Was Death just waiting for the time to come? Raindrops started falling from the sky and onto […]

One day of the many days that the Fool studied under the Priestess, the Priestess told the Fool to approach the far end of the room. The Fool walked for many minutes across the black and white tiled floor. His footfalls echoed across the vast room. Soon he saw a figure kneeling next to a […]