SOMETHING UNTOWARD
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This was potentially my first time having a good, long night sleep in years. My brain was usually like a skipper butterfly; constantly fluttering, even in my sleep. Sometimes, when I think I am sleeping, I am just lying semi-conscious, staring into the void, tormented by ideas that never come to fruition, inventions I never get the courage to patent, dreams, visions, the trifling memories of yesterday, and fantasies of the future. Most times however, my thoughts were about the immediate tomorrow; the people I planned on slighting and the mood I was likely to be in. I usually planned my moods in advance, and most importantly, the frock I was likely to wear for the mood setting effect. Other times I amused myself, by deciding on the people I should disappoint, and rehearsing the conversation to produce it. Food was importantant in maintaining my selfish disposition, and a vinagerett salad was bound to be included in my plans of my daily meals. Night and day I lived in a well-strategized fantasy. My life was a calander of planned activities and a schedule of management tools.
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The Heart Sees is about a woman, June Mitchel, waking up in what she thinks is a utopic dream. This dream turns out to be the bed of stranger who is apparently not that much of a stranger. It takes a while for her to realize that she met this stranger, Alrick Samson, the evening before. Alrick Samson is someone she should not have been with that night, and someone she definitely cannot be with in the future because of her many other relationshps. However the morning after is not the end of their affair, and neither was the evening before the beginning of their acquaintance. The only trouble is that she does not know it, and Alrick delights in the act of torturing her about what role he played in her life thus far. For the most part she does not believe him, but Alrick finds ways to make her swing back and forth between submission and defiance. She is on this teeter totter because she can't remember anything about the evening, how she seduced him, or vise versa, or why her heart seem to intent on having him to herself; especially when he seemed so determined to love someone else. Did her heart see something that only time would tell? The story helps sort out this conundrum.
About the Author
Cyndiann was born in Grenada and is now a Canadian citizen living in Toronto with her family. She has a B.A in Georgraphy from York University, a post-grad diploma in Research Analysis from Georgian College, and a Electromechanical Engineering Technician certificate from George Brown College. She loves cultural studies, history, georgaphy, philosophy and psychology, and strives to maintain a marriage between these many aspects in her writings.