Excerpt from 'Dystopic of the Prodigious' (THE PRAXIS CONTINUUM Adrian Glass 2018)

"... He glances at Elspeth, her eyes closed.  At peace.  An ex-solider, lost and wounded.  Her mind saw the trauma and suffering of war that became imprinted into her consciousness.  Through meditation and clearing the mind of all present and future thoughts, focused only on the now.  A point in reality that is contained within the self, as the self is all that matters within existence.  We stay connected and disconnected at the same time.  As an old Locus Aether Master once said.  "We absorb memories while at the same time ridding ourselves of them, the mind stays full and empty ad infinitum."  Master Daevian then looks at Liliana, an orphaned child who then later lived on the streets, from the sub-levels of the city she used her belief in herself, intrinsically, in her own mind to build herself up from the misfortunes of life, but struggled.  When the inevitable fall came.  She returned to suffering.  Until I found her, brought her back, taught her to focus on the horizons of single-mindlessness. We rise and fall, consciously and unconsciously.  What we think we have grasped, always disappears.   As the only stability one can attain is the stillness of mind for that we do not cling onto to life too intensely.  As it will bring us closer to death.  We intrinsically all have the core human trait of survival.  It just needs to be cultivated.  Master Daevian bows slightly towards Liliana, who is asleep, lying beside Elspeth.  Acknowledging her integral powers of survival, that were once undisciplined and unfocused."

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From the short story Dystopic of the Prodigious of the novel THE PRAXIS CONTINUUM out now available from Amazon books