Somewhere between waking and sleeping on our journey towards the unfathomable deep,
there comes a thin moment where we have one foot in the waking world and the other is in that other world where we relinquish conscious control.
Pausing here and straddled between two planets that drive one another like gears,
the attentive traveler will notice a narrow door only wide enough to sidle through.
This is the border of sleep, where imagination and reality are braided together,
a chasm in the crust of consciousness,
venting the hot pumice of imagery into the irresistible magma of narrative.
Welcome to episode 21 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep,
a weekly podcast of curious tales from bordersofsleep.com featuring original stories by Seymour Jacklin.
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Artwork is by Robin Traynor, production by me, Tim Wiles,
and the soundtrack for this week's episode is from Distant City by Daveed Viterbo and is available from magnatune.com this podcast is also available on itunes.
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Mysterious Ways by Seymour Jacklin it was all the bishop's fault.
He started it with all his theological speculation about what might lie beyond the chessboard,
and from the moment he had planted the idea in the minds of his congregation and things started to go wrong.
The queen,
who was accustomed to the feeling that she could go wherever she wanted whenever she wanted,
didn't like the suggestion that there might be somewhere else that she didn't know about.
The king began to fear that