Eternal, not Ephemeral

© KJ Hannah Greenberg, 2023

Eternal, not Ephemeral
Seashell Books, USA
Jul. 17, 2023. Buy It here.

Since ostensibly forever, yampy grands have been mindful that fashioning fiction endures as a means of providing future generations with knowledge, no matter those young’s storytelling habits. Consider that when new steamship captains, fresh fried rice entrepreneurs, or untested students of veterinary medicine will seek insights within contemporary society’s lexis, given our culture’s complications, weak men will cry, strong women will jump from undersized buildings, and imaginary hedgehogs will shelter with unicorns.

Granted, many daughters write beautiful prose, many sons are prolific raconteurs, and large numbers of grandchildren have keen imaginations. Nonetheless, it continues to be up to grannies and grandpas to use words to complete the difficult parts of consciousness-raising because stuck positions, stifling strictures, and infighting are laughable to persons who care nothing for external validation.

It’s not so much that youngsters quell the number and kinds of questions that they proffer, as much as it is that until people age, they are uncomfortable holding, let alone articulating “ghastly” sentiments. More exactly, hoary individuals, unlike fresh faces, are prepared to cleave to robust beliefs and to distribute them as congregations of words. Ancients, not adolescents, overall, are responsible for intrepidly crafting chronicles that focus on society’s “overwhelming” issues.

Even in cases in which barflies, Komodo dragons, or British dragoons feel constrained by dogma, silver-haired folks continue to utilize tall tales and short ones to laser through goings-on; OAPs have lived too long to allow any miasma of misunderstanding to shroud their rhetoric. Notwithstanding specific misdirection issued by toxic wildebeests, magniloquent politicians, and other gabbling revolutionaries, elders’ narratives, built from small portions of phlogiston and larger measures of heart, uniquely promote critical and creative thinking.

Preface: Since Ostensibly Forever
1. Then
1.1 Pretty Little Miss
1.2 My Children’s Mothers
1.3 Pirate Ayana and the Seagulls
1.4 Fecundity
1.5 Scurryfunge
1.6 The Wedding Fee
1.7 The Little Pepper
1.8 Transitory Unease
1.9 Death by Competition
1.10 Isabelle
1.11 The Summer of 1971
1.12 Herr Mittemeister
1.13 The Pearl Stringer’s Mother
1.14 Purple Cat
1.15 Construction 101: Entertainment for Neighborhood Children
1.16 Do Good or Feel Good

2. Now
2.1 The Bearded Lady and the Garbage Truck Driver
2.2 Marybeth’s Predicament
2.3 Free Pet Grooming Class
2.4 Tête-bêche 
2.5 FOMO
2.6 Sea Glass
2.7 Awful Aim
2.8 Another Day
2.9 If You Call Me Again
2.10 Partula’s Aspiration
2.11 The Weighty Decades of Yehudis Blau
2.12 The Summer of Pink Tea
2.13 Paper Hearts
2.14 Don’t Take It Personally
2.15 Not this Week
2.16 Archetype Shift
2.17 Ingus
2.18 Before Paying

3. Later
3.1 The Green Witch
3.2 A Change of Heart
3.3 Not Rumpelʹštílʹcxen
3.4 Special Teeth
3.5 Compassion for Dark Siders
3.6 Temporary Graciousness
3.7 The Peeler
3.8 Momentum or Position
3.9 Salutogenesis
3.10 Three Ways to Ride an Elephant
3.11 Live Chat with Gremlin
3.12 A Different Hue
3.13 Color, Texture, and Protection
3.14 Absinthe for Aliens
3.15 Jurisprudence
3.16 The Antics of Certain Profligate, Spacefaring Penguins
Credits
Acknowledgements
About the Author