"Energy Meets Energy"

Can you see this in your minds eye?

Two moths fanning a stone and fanning themselves with their soft wings in the blue moonlight – energy meets energy.

Two planets sailing through space impacting each other with a titanic crash – energy meets energy.

Wisdom meets wisdom - energy meets energy.

Strength meets Strength – energy meets energy.

Depth meets Depth – Energy meets Energy.

Passion meeting passion finally in one long, bodily embrace as energy meets energy and energy meets energy and energy meets energy ...

From Nikita Abrams Stories

 (Summer of 2013, Just Outside Erie, PA)

Nikita stands in the middle of their small backyard. 7:30 PM on one of the longest days of light in the year. Temperatures and humidity both unusually low. She barely works up a sweat mowing the whole yard. Nikki is pleased to hear the bird cacophony return quickly after shutting off the lawnmower. She breaths deeply now of that fresh cut grass smell filling her head with “SUMMER”. This place is heavenly, she thinks. But she knows what waits only a few precious months away as she drinks deeply from a glass of water on the picnic table.

Shit, she says out loud to no one. This water taste like … don't even know what this shit tastes like some chemical taste that is just … bad! She reminds herself to put bottled water on the grocery list. God only knows what's in this fucking water.

She sits on the picnic bench when her cell rings – it's MICHELLE – yay! How's my Baby?

Michelle laughs – I'm good, Nikki. I love you. I miss you.

You too, Michelle.

Look I've been in meetings with them all day here and like we discussed cannot say too much but this is it, Nikki. We got to move on this say be here by end of this month? The deal is we work our way through pretty much like we talked about. I'll be The Doc and you'll be The Sheriff, Michelle finished happily.

Okay, Nikki, said. Just like that?

Just like that.

Seldom in their relationship had Nikita been willing to follow Michelle's lead unquestioningly but she did so now – how big is our room? She asks even though they were told not to discuss any details on the phone or email.

You remember that HUGE walk in closet we had in our first place -

Augh, Nikki groaned interrupting, seriously, that's it?

That's it for our personal quarters, Nikki. There's various common areas -

Still, Nikki interrupted, thinking how for so many years she had somehow managed to stay out of prison only for this. It's daunting, she said - what do you mean “I'll” be the sheriff? By myself?

They said it's not that big a facility and you'll have plenty of backup. They only want one cop, Nikki. These people don't exactly like authority, I'm guessing? Mostly a bunch of geeks we're talking about here, Nikki. And its mostly a young crowd so easier for me, too. It's a cake walk for both of us.

It's a big step, I'm just saying, Michelle. She could still taste that indescribable chemical water. I'm walking up to it, Love. I'll get there. There are huge up sides to working alone. What if twelve months go by and the shit still hasn't hit the fan?

They still need a core group there to be ready. They won't be socking the top over us until it's necessary. It's not so bad, it's kind of cute. I figure we'll each get some me time in the room each day. There's a big gym that has a big pool, saunas. A beautiful media room. A big, comfortable library and reading room that you will love that I swear, Nikki.

Nikki smiled – I wasn't built to live either underground or in a closet, Babe. But all for a good cause so 'here we go'. She mustered some enthusiasm.

I'll be back tomorrow sent you the flight information did you get it?

Got it. I'll be there, Nikki said.

Love you, Nikki.

You more.

Phone off Nikki says out loud again to no one – eight to ten months? Thinking then, I don't know, girl, I just don't know about this. Things are getting pretty fucking weird that's for sure? It's such a perfect evening that it's hard to think about the apocalypse. Cognitive dissonance is a bitch. Nikita tending to see life as an adventure, tended to like 'off the wall' and this was pretty off the wall stuff. Besides, she loved Colorado and had never lived 8700 feet in elevation on the side of an alpine peak before. They would be able to go top side as much as they wished, Michelle had already learned. At least until they screwed the top hatch down. I Haven't cross country skied in years, she thought. She felt herself softening to their outrageous new plan. Why not? What else do we have to do?

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The Ant Who Found Heaven - Short Short Story

 The Ant Who Found Heaven

Short Story by David Sky

The ants had lived forever in a world of want, always struggling and surviving only by the barest margins. A lone ant, called Aquarius Sun/Sagittarius Rising, took it upon herself to seek out a better world and left the others behind traveling for days then weeks even months until almost dead from starvation, she turned the corner of the bathroom hall way and through some divine providence or just dumb good luck, who knows with Sagifuckintarius, she made a hard right heading on her last legs and unbeknownst to her at the time - to the kitchen.

She noticed that she began to find some food, then more food, and thought, “It is a miracle, we are saved!”

She had almost given up hope but now her tiny body surged with a second wind and she picked up speed in her excitement. Soon she came to what at first appeared to be another world much bigger then their world she had left and felt in wonder. She discovered that here in this world, there was plenty, that in fact, it was a world of miraculous abundance so much so that she had to wonder if this were not heaven she had so often heard of?

She made the long trip back fortified by the strength gained from foraging in the kitchen and when she showed back up in the colony, they noticed not only that she was back but that she looked really amazing. The Queen gave audience to her and listened to the tale of her long, arduous and lonely adventure to “Heaven” this land of magical abundance beyond belief.

The Queen, of Pentacles, of course, practical bent of mind, thought about this and said, “we do not have enough Workers to make a line to this heaven you speak of, if it be so far as you say, Love, so I don’t know what we can do with it if we cannot move there. I don’t see any practical use, then, anything else would be too great a risk to our Colony since we are struggling well enough as it is here, we dare not take a risk of what little we do have upon something so far away and uncertain as this heaven.”

Aquarius/Sagittarius ant took it hard at first but spent the rest of her days regaling her sisters with her many stories of all the food waiting for them in heaven. The ants loved these stories since they made their hard lives a little bit better just being able to believe that there actually was a Heaven and one of their own had been there. And that is how The Bathroom ants got their ant religion.