Here is the short story as promised. In case you missed the first part, you can read it here (https://joebroadmeadowblog.wordpress.com/2024/04/22/an-experimental-short-story/)
I have embedded it here as a pdf to accommodate formatting. if you have any problems reading it. I have also put a link to the story as a download after it. Hope you enjoy, but no matter how you feel about it, please share.
Good, bad, or indifferent the more I hear from people who read my writing the better I can become as a writer.
The file is embedded here as a PDF to preserve the formatting. If you put the mouse cursor on the file you’ll see an icon with four arrows in the grey control bar. Click that to open in full screen. If you prefer, I also put a link to the file to download.
Enjoy!
Here’ the downloadable link version

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Joe, your best work to date. As the voice of truth in your story reminds us, ‘we are all stardust’, that there is no distinction between who we are in the present, to what we were and what we will become. When we in this present life takes our last breath, our essence simply moves on to what is next. Yes?
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Thank you Kent, it was s story roiling around for a bi in my mind.
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Joe B:
Thought provoking. An occasionally seen image floats into my consciousness: it is a pencil drawing of a hand engaged in writing with a pen. Or is it a pencil. Don’t recall that detail.
Query: Doesn’t Joyce Kilmer deserve a credit? Shouldn’t her name be mentioned?
What happens to all the existences that have come and gone? I wish I knew. Are we all destined to be part of a mammoth collection of cosmic dust?
John Austin Murphy
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I prefer the concept of continuity. And you are correct, I should have given credit. I should never assume people would know the poem
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And “Joyce” is a she Alfred Joyce Kilmer
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