Totally Made UP Stuff

  • The Island 29

    Renate seeks closer by revisiting the cave. She is surprised to find the cave blocked by a cave in. David decides it’s time to take their mind off the cave and build a luxury bath house.

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  • The Island 28

    David discover’s Renate has a high fever and awakens still in a fever dream. She wonders what was real and what was delusion.

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  • The Island 27

    Renate and David finally understand their experience in the cave and make their way out to a knew life on their island paradise.

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  • The Island 26

    The Path of Shared Rhythm Every living thing moves with a rhythm that echoes through the land. When you match your breath to the world, you feel the pulse beneath all things. This is the first doorway to resonance with nature. Light brightened until the air felt energized. Renate kept her palm on the stone,…

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  • The Island 21

    Renate and David feel compelled to venture deeper into the cave. The spiral, hand-carved staircase gives them time to remember how their journey began with the Monks in their garden of the roses.

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  • A brief look at the woes of using AI to assist with writing tasks for The Island story.

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  • The Island 11

    Renate and David test their new kiln and a new way of self reliance is born. Not ones to live with mundanity, they conspire to make their pottery works of art.

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