A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 2: A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 2, #12

By Cyril Sumagaysay

This book contains a variety of fictional incidences that could possibly happen in a certain place in a certain time on this planet. It provides not only entertainment but a profound understanding of life, universe and the mysteries in some dark regions only plausible in our imagination. It may talk about some strange objects, strange people, strange places and extremely rare events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cyril Sumagaysay
• Release date: Jan 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393732334

Cyril Sumagaysay

I am a musician by profession but I love to write novels, short stories, topics on cosmology, aircraft design and I'm also a sculptor and painter. 

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A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 2

A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 2, Volume 12

Cyril Sumagaysay

Published by Cyril Sumagaysay, 2021.

This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.

A COLLECTION OF SHORT STORIES: VOLUME 2

First edition. January 16, 2021.

Copyright © 2021 Cyril Sumagaysay.

ISBN: 978-1393732334

Written by Cyril Sumagaysay.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

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Dedication

A Collection of Short Stories: Volume 2

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About the Author

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This book is for my friends who still find it a pleasure to read. Nothing can replace the pleasure of reading. Entertainment technology makes exponential leaps in every decade but there are thoughts and emotions that cannot be communicated through movies. Some people even read the books from where these movies were taken. Who knows? Some of these stories will be made into movies one day. 

The Secret of the Black Lantern

Warren loved open spaces. He could sit on his favorite spot like that Piscean sort of thing and spend a century motionless. But it was no mystic contemplation at all. It was as simple as the luxury and rest one can get from thinking nothing. And most of the time, creativity makes sprouts of inventions and innovations. He experienced the hustle and bustle of Busan. And he felt that man is constantly wasting a lot of energy for nothing except a set of joys that lasts for a few minutes. And we fool ourselves to believe that we can own things as ours forever. He loved Colorado. He grew up in Busan until his twenties with his Father Jules. Jules was there for diplomatic reasons. More than that, he knew nothing. Warren was a person who wouldn’t ask questions when he felt that the answer would just disturb his peace and there was nothing he could do about it anyway. His mother left them when he was fifteen for an unknown reason. And his father was arrested by the Korean Authority for an unknown reason. He never came back. He thought that his father was probably killed. Now, he was back with his mother, Sarah in Colorado.   

Warren was still there in perfect stillness. There are so many beautiful things in life that most people could not see. They die without seeing these elegant and wonderful shapes of things with temporal existence. And he did not want to miss any of them. He could tap into different dimensions beyond the space-time curvature that we know. He believed that the mind is the door to any of these dimensions. There was no way, he believed, that the five or even six senses perceive these dimensions except the mind. His question was this. Can you conceive them? If not, these doors are forever closed.

What have you been doing? Sarah asked, preparing the cookies.

Climbing the slope. The mountains are awesome.

You’re like your father. He ponders on things that never change.

Like those mountains. They never change. They stay beautiful. People talk about faith that can move mountains. Why move them?

Son, mountains, in such context, are problems, big problems. They are not talking about the pride of Colorado.

Are there problems that can’t be moved? Warren asked.

Oh yes. And most of the times, we give up. There are problems that will take God to move them. That’s what faith is all about. We pass the problem to someone else, in this case, God. God is the only Immovable Object and the Irresistible Force at the same time. Sarah replied.

Is it possible that there is such an object in the universe besides God?

Well, then, that object must be God, Warren.

"Not necessarily, Mom. God is a conscious being. This thing is not. God is infinite. This thing