Euphoria: and other things

By Melissa Bentley

The story basically concerns the conflict between good and evil. Innocence is predominant in the relationship between Wing and Splendor, who seems to Wing to be the Mentor he seeks. However, what Wing is not aware of is that Splendor is as far away from understanding the truth as any one being could be. The new life that Splendor seeks for Wing

• Language: English
• Publisher: TOPLINK PUBLISHING, LLC
• Release date: Dec 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781970066791

Melissa Bentley

Melissa Bentley, MA in Clinical Psychology, has spent her years since the late 1960's until now, searching for a meaning to life and existence. She grew up in a small Mid-western town, left home at eighteen to attend an out of- state university primarily because she wanted to escape her restricted family home-life. She fell under the influence of several-ot-so-good characters, reminiscent of Evilness in this fantasy novel. However, Melissa survived, much like Wing, by finding her strength and power in a supreme being, a higher power in this little novel.

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Euphoria

– and other things

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Melissa Bentley

Copyright © 2018 by Melissa Bentley.

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Contents

Euphoria

Away

Dean

Don’t play games with me . . .

Downing another beer . . .

Escogiendo

Fear

Freight Train

He was like the bourbon in my cabinet . . .

Heartbeats

He’d Sold the Bees!

I Entered Her Waiting Room

I Learn to Be Quiet

I Like the Way You Look at Me

I Want My Goddamn Key Back!

I Will Always Love You."

If I Said I Was Hostile

I’m Lonely

Lost

Love"

Merkle

Merkle Part II

Minner

Misc

My Cat

Secret Despair

So You Thought He Was a Cop

The Eternal Struggle for Peace

These Days

Thoughts

Time and Space

Today

War

"Wish You Hadn’t Taken So Long—

You Left!

Horny Little Lady

Euphoria

Euphoria was where tree frogs chirped across the borders of a green pond. For background, Wing1.jpg Wing came to the pond quite unaware one foggy grey morning in the summertime. And the frogs were beginning to chirp even through the fog.

For further background, Wing had a friend named Splendor, who always seemed to know the best places to go and the best things to do. Wing and Splendor used to spend lots of time talking about what they wanted to do and where they wanted to go. Splendor knew about Euphoria and told Wing they should go there sometime. Wing had spent lots of time Splendor1.jpg throughout his youth wishing on wishful things and had failed to an extent to see much of the fog as appeared on that morning of the fog near Euphoria. As a consequence, and being unaware, he simply noted the beautiful green pond that morning – and the frogs.

Somehow the frogs knew where Wing went in his mind and they grew cautious and slowly quiet. However, none wanted to do the difficult and break the code of the pond and its surrounding Euphoria and tell Wing where he should be in his mind.

Part of where Wing was in his mind was in being alone and, because of this, he had developed a self-sufficiency that was not particularly stimulating, but at least it worked for him and was part of a long way from where Wing had once become. The inspiring portion of Wing’s behavior that morning in the fog was that somewhere in his being was a well-spring of newness and life as had been there before, but had lasted only spans of time. Wing had felt the stirring of this newness and could not resist the uplift he felt from it; at the same time he had a sort of dead hope that he could pursue what was in his mind on a realistic rather than Euphoria-type basis.

It seems once, a long, long time ago, Wing met Splendor, not quite so much by accident as Wing had at first thought. Splendor impressed upon Wing there were other things in the world besides the mediocreness of Wing’s days and nights. Wing glimpsed the other world through Splendor’s words and visions and feared his own entry into its aliveness, but the more these two spent times together, the more dissatisfied Wing became with his mediocreness and he began to grab for bits of Splendor’s other world. The day Wing came to the misty green frog pond, he could not help but feel himself enveloped in its Euphoria.

He sat down among the trees near the pond and began to meditate as Splendor had shown him, before and after Newness. He became quiet in his soul, far away from the fears and anxieties of before. He began to notice lovely green things beside and around him and he listened to the wind in the trees above him and saw the clouds far in the sky. The green things waved gently in the breeze and the tree branches made music to only