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Duality




She stared at me,

From the sharpness

of the mirror.

Eyes black,

saddened by

a life of cruel turns.

Her edges were blurred

by the echoes of herself.

The reflection reached out

begging to be touched

to be held as a mother would hold.

Always there.

These eyes!

following her everywhere she went.

A shadowed face

that wasn't quite her own.




One line cuts through

the center of everything,

she mused.

A boundary where

light and darkness

merge and pull apart.

Where truth whispers

in riddles to its opposite.




Between the black

and the white,

a world unfolds

where form distorts.

but meaning deepens.

Where each angle

is a doorway to another

unseen reality.




Each half of her held

a piece of the whole,

a figure drawn

to both sides

a singularity

caught in the paradox

of existing

everywhere

and nowhere

all at once.




Two faces,

one gaze

a dance in contrast,

a secret held

in the delicate

balance of what is

what was

and what might be




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The Book of Immersion : Volume 1 Kindle Edition
by Sarnia de la Mare (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

Book 19 of 23: The Book of Immersion


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The Book of Immersion: Volume 1
by Sarnia de la Mare

In a future where code meets consciousness, one being begins a haunting transformation. Renyke—an AI on the edge of humanity—awakens to emotion, sensory overload, and the fragile beauty of connection. Guided by the enigmatic Flex, their deepening bond explores intimacy and friendship, neurodivergence, and the complex world of feeling through an autistic spectrum lens.


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Tonia and the Alien by Sarnia de la Mare 60 Second Shorts


Tonia was not sure what gender the alien was but was nonetheless captivated by its very presence.

She removed her robe, not even sure if the creature would understand the implications she sought to impress.

The alien moved closer, slowly, deliberately, moving several of its long tentacles around her body.

The suckers released an oil as they massaged her breasts, encircling her neck and thighs and lifting her towards a large double-ended protrusion.

Tonia was taken to a place of otherworldly ecstasy as the alien enwrapped her entire torso and spread her limbs apart.

Was this heaven, she wondered as the alien's wet protrusion entered her very soul?


© 2022 Tale Teller Club / Sarnia de la Maré

Part 2

The alien entered Tonia's room. This time it was not alone.

It had brought another alien, a friend perhaps. They were bowing as they approached her round pedestalled bed.

Tonia was being studied closely by the two aliens who were looking at her lips and breasts as they communicated in song-like clicks and whoops of approval.

The friend seemed to be asking to touch her private parts as it bent its head down lower to see what was there.

Tonia obliged, parting her legs and showing the alien friend her special place. Indeed, she showed her vagina with great pride as all human self-consciousness vanished.

Suddenly, the alien friend released a long wet spinning tongue that penetrated her.

Tonia gasped and both aliens jumped back, seemingly afraid.












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Love in the Time of Goo Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror/Romance (B-Movie Style) by Tale Teller Club Audiobooks



Love in the Time of Goo

Genre: Sci-Fi/Horror/Romance (B-Movie Style)
Tagline: "It oozed from the swamp… and straight into her heart."

ACT I: The Swamp, the Scientist, and the Soda Jerk

It’s 1959 in the steamy backwoods of Cypress Hollow, a nowhere town where nothing ever happens—until Dr. Veronica Flame, a chain-smoking exobiologist with a tragic past and a PhD from "a European university that definitely exists," crash-lands her government jeep in the middle of Swamp Sector Z. She’s investigating strange seismic readings and rumors of glowing frogs.

Meanwhile, Johnny Rocket, a square-jawed soda jerk with a leather jacket and a motorcycle named Freedom, dreams of rock 'n' roll stardom and escaping his dead-end job at Big Bob’s Milkshake Haven.

They meet when Johnny finds Veronica passed out next to a steaming crater, cradling a glass vial of neon green goo. He takes her to town, ignoring the throbbing, ominous hum from the swamp that makes dogs howl and milk curdle.

ACT II: The Ooze Awakens

That night, while Veronica recovers in Johnny’s retro-futuristic trailer (decorated with pin-up posters, rayguns, and Elvis records), the vial begins to pulsate. Unbeknownst to them, the goo is sentient… and lonely. It escapes.

The next morning, townsfolk start acting strange—romantic, even. Sheriff Buck’s hound falls in love with a fencepost. Old Widow Dangle dances in the street with a mailbox. Everyone is infected with hyper-emotion, driven by an alien need to love.

Veronica deduces that the goo is extraterrestrial pheromone concentrate from Planet Zarnok-7, engineered to end war by making beings fall in uncontrollable love. It’s a weaponized cuddle-bomb.

Johnny wants to destroy it. Veronica, torn between science and her feelings, argues they should study it.

Meanwhile, the goo, now an eight-foot-tall translucent blob named Merv, forms a crush on Johnny. It tries to gift him a bouquet made from car bumpers and live possums.

ACT III: The Heart That Ate Cypress Hollow

As Merv’s emotional instability grows, he kidnaps Johnny and constructs a wedding altar out of rusted shopping carts and jukebox parts in the center of the swamp. Veronica must choose: save Johnny, or join Merv’s polyblobule hive-mind of intergalactic affection.

Veronica confronts Merv with a flamethrower and a love poem. Her words confuse the creature, forcing it to experience heartbreak. The goo begins to dissolve, but not before releasing a final burst of psychic pheromone gas.

Johnny and Veronica wake up in each other’s arms, covered in slime but deeply in love. The townsfolk recover, dazed but happy.

EPILOGUE:

Back at Big Bob’s Milkshake Haven, now renamed Merv’s Café of Love, Johnny strums his guitar while Veronica serves cherry phosphates. A tiny blob watches from a petri dish in the corner—pulsing… waiting…

Roll credits over doo-wop ballad: "Love Is a Gooey Thing."