“Good morning, mother. I just had the most wonderful dream. The air smelled like roses and the breeze shimmered and sparkled in the sunlight. You were there too and we had the most wonderful time.”

       “Come, child, let’s get you insid...

       Kiki lay on her bed finishing a letter on a piece of parchment. She stopped to look over her handiwork. Dear Teal deBrasse Nyson, it began. Below that, neatly penned, was her secret code. She had created it just for him.

       Kiki nodde...

       At the threshold of the end of all things, a moth lay sleeping in his cocoon. He had been asleep for a long while, slumbering through a dreamless depth to finally ascend in a silvered half-awareness. Then, he emerged to the shiver of cool air caressing newly for...