Deeper

An excerpt from Evelyn Alvar’s first book in the Memoirs of a Tourist series, in which her heroine, Tara Midas, tries to describe her journeys:

“This world is so… three dimensional,” Tara said.  ”So flat.  You can only move along its surface, back to front, side to side.  The circumference of a clock.  But I’ve learned how to slip past that, through it.  I’ve learned how to fly.”  She considered these words in silence for a moment.  ”It’s not something that can be described.  Words are only symbols, after all, representational.  Powerful only because of what they describe, powerful because they bring a flimsy sort of tangibility to the intangible.  But the actuality is so much greater.”