John Sandbach

Virgo 26. Under the full moon, a sagging balcony. She peered out the door at the balcony, yearning to step onto it and enter the moonlight. She knew, though, that…

Virgo 25. A man crawling on his hands and knees through dust keeps finding jewels and other valuable items. He wondered if the dust was a kind of magic soil…

Virgo 24. A satyr sleeping standing up. Roots are growing from his hooves into the ground. One of the most gratifying aspects of being a satyr is this tendency to…

Virgo 23. A library is burning. A man therein continues to read. Out of the corners of his eyes he saw the flames, and could smell the smoke, and hear…

Virgo 22. A fruit whose seeds always produce a new and different type of fruit. To enter into seeds he had to first make himself small, to return to the…

Virgo 21. A geologist studying bands of rock in a cliff. Surfaces continue to pile up as the sea watches. These are not histories with a remembered beginning, but eras,…