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 traveller 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 63 of Stories from the Borders of Sleep,
a podcast of curious tales created and voiced by your host Seymour Jacqueline.
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Brotherhood by Seymour Japlin Facing out to sea,
one of the brothers was muttering that our father, long before word spread of the discovery of the woman.
The sound of his voice had been a constant back noise to everything,