Despite time’s weathering, I can still find each daughter in those scattered marks, an alphabet of memory.

But my life has since multiplied beyond reckoning.

kikiloachronicles.substack.com/p/prelude-i-...

...a meditation on Hawai'i's origins and human individuation, a cat, clever teenage banter, philosophizing, thrifting as a battle with entropy, an archetypal dream, , love as physics of life, and relatively few Oxford commas.

Not much romance. Not really YA.

#literaryfiction #philosophicalfiction

Genre? Maybe: contemporary-metaphysical-literary-time-travel-epic?*

Just sent it to my dev editor this week. 😬🤞🤙

*FYI, the book includes Kiki as unreliable jester-narrator, a forever-coming-of-age arc, prehistoric trauma, cookie baking, wildfire, time surfing, tsunami surfing, a sniper, glitter...

With another tack of our canoe, movement returned to my world. Even after a thousand visits, that place still steals my breath.

But that first time? That one most of all.

I’m connected across more of my selves and a longer span of time than all we will ever be.

With a flicker, I can find you in any moment. And perhaps I found the girl who can save everything.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you what I’ve seen.

With a flicker, I can find you in any moment… perhaps I found the girl who can save everything.

But I’m getting ahead of myself. Let me tell you what I’ve seen.

We share our genes. We share our deepest dreams.

I’m connected across more of my selves and a longer span of time than all we will ever be.