Fiction: *Time Nymph*

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TIMELESSNESS.

I slice through past and future, no longer wavering; the fear rendering One discombobulated in present time empowers in other time.

Superior Being.

I am a time nymph, buoyant and light. We do front flips, back flips, spin side to side like a shooting top, do head and handstands. Anything is possible in time which is not now: ballet, grace, en pointe –

Liberation.

They are one time traveler. She breathes in ecstasy of the future yet passed, glimmers of past once future. Seconds once ephemeral, millennia now prisms. Day Halos. Nymphets sparkle like –

Sapphire years.

They remember, once afraid of passing time and time not yet, time pluperfect.

Laser time, razor-honed present imperfect.

One day – future perfect? – time tricksters suspend An Other over swirling currents, toes poised for time/space continua –

 

~future~^~present~^~past~^~past~^~present~^~future~

~f~u~t~u~r~e~^~p~r~e~s~e~n~t~^~p~a~s~t~^~p~a~s~t~^~p~r~e~s~e~n~t~^~f~u~t~u~r~e~

^f~^p~^p~^p~^p~^f~^u~^r~^a~^a~^r~^u~^t~^s~^s~^s~^e~^t~^u~^e~^t~^t~^s~^u~^i~^n~^e~^i~^

~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~

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 – like a ballerina’s.

“What is this wonder, these flowing ripples kissing All?”

We signal acceptance of time bent slightly forward and stretched eons backwards. Unknown Strangers gently guide Nymphet through future red giants – or is it past present blue dwarfs? – bodies reeling through galaxies, chrysalis birthing –

 

~^~c~^~h~^~i~^~m~^~e~^~r~^~a~^~

 

– Us.

It’s time; it’s about time.

Split of split seconds:

Goddess, swim the seven sisters, navigate your vessel, all time, whirling, all time...

Splash.

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“*Time Nymph*,” © copyright 1994 - present, by Jennifer Semple Siegel, may not be reprinted or reposted without the express permission of the author. From Are You EVER Going to be Thin? (and other stories), published 1994 and republished 2012 on Amazon.