by Bela Johnson | Sep 10, 2026 | Uncategorized
Explosive, it arrivedjust after we had gone to bed.Sleep was underway. I sat up, startled into wakefulness.What was that? I said. Groggily, he turned to me,saying, I know what that was. And told me that, years ago,he had been working on a housesituated amidst Norfolk...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 8, 2026 | Uncategorized
Today the ocean is a turquoise jewel,sparkling, crystalline and inviting. Fins and mask in hand,I wade in. The first wave fails to render me breathless,a sure sign that winter has passed for good. The sea never lies. Stroking out into deep water,the bay, once shared...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 5, 2026 | Uncategorized
All these years later,I wondered if he still lived. He died in 2014.Cancer. The obituary tells me nothing. He was a kind,thoughtful, compassionate man. A physicianwith a passion for homeopathy. I climbed the old, groaning stairsto his tiny second-floor officein...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 3, 2026 | Uncategorized
A sparkling flash of white catches my eye. Having more than once spotted dolphinsout in this stretch of ocean,I know those cetaceans would make more of the water. As my attention narrows,there appears a circlingaround that tiny eruption. Perhaps it’s only...
by Bela Johnson | Sep 1, 2026 | Uncategorized
There is no room in a worldconverging on the hybrid human,possessed of both its innate natureand artificial intelligence,for the magical, the imaginative,the unknown. For these under-explored regions,these frontiers of human potential,inhabit the middle world – a...
