The atom master smashed his club down upon the rock, and worlds he forged from the hearts of stars.  He pounded his rod down again, and universes hatched, squeezing through an orifice that had no size.  And yet, he fashioned the universes in ignorance.  Worlds within worlds he smelted by his surmises.  In the infinite shaving of each moment, he refined a dream, and each dream spawned an infinite outscape.  Yet he did not know it.

Each time he slammed down the hammer, he wrung gods from the blackness.  He welded a multiverse, and his mind housed the God he imagined had made him.  And he did not know.  He pawed and scraped before the God he had created in order to create himself.  The atom master had made God too small, and so he remained in ignorance.

Such was his illimitable power, and such was his supernal ignorance.  And he became afraid.  For without scale to see the megaverse he smithed, the atom master thought himself with beginnings and endings within the dream of space and time.  Subject to the laws of his own dream, he became lost in the labyrinth of his own creation.

Yet with knowledge of his own slumber comes the hope of awakening.

© 2022 by Michael C. Just

Mike’s novel, The Dirt: The Journey of a Mystic Cowboy, is available in softcover or eBook formats through Amazon.

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Mike’s other titles, including The Crippy, The Mind Altar, and Canyon Calls, are available through this website or through Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B002

Four of his short stories have recently been published online:

Lies, Ltd. has been published by The Mystery Tribune @ Lies, Ltd.: Literary Short Fiction by Michael C. Just (mysterytribune.com)

The Obligate Carnivore has been published by the Scarlet Leaf Review @ Category: MICHAEL JUST – SCARLET LEAF REVIEW

I See You, Too has been published by the 96th of October @ I See You, Too – 96th of October

Offload, a short story about a man who can heal any disease, is now live and can be read at The Worlds Within at Offload – The Worlds Within