by Stephanie Benedetto | May 14, 2022 | Stories
Antidotes to Fear of Death – by Rebecca Elson Sometimes as an antidoteTo fear of death,I eat the stars. Those nights, lying on my back,I suck them from the quenching darkTil they are all, all inside me,Pepper hot and sharp. Sometimes, instead, I stir myselfInto...
by Stephanie Benedetto | May 7, 2022 | Podcast, Stories
Listen on the Wild Creation Stories podcast here: Listen on Google Listen on Spotify Listen on iTunes Once there was a mouse who’d been trained to run a maze. He knew that somewhere at the end of those corridors, there was a piece of cheese waiting for him. And...
by Stephanie Benedetto | May 2, 2020 | Podcast, Stories
Listen to this on the Wild Creation Stories Podcast here: Once an old man dreamed of the sea. He put off the journey for a long time because no one knew just how long the road to the sea was or how long it would take to get there. The prospect of an unending journey...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 18, 2020 | Awakened Thoughts, Stories
You were born on the back of a sleeping tiger. Have you forgotten? One twitch of its tail can send you hurtling into nothingness. And even now as it slumbers and you are nestled in its fur, at any moment that can change, it may wake and you may find yourself trapped...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 10, 2020 | Stories
I love being by myself. Sometimes, I feel alone, which isn’t nearly as much fun. In those moments, I hear a voice urging me to question the thought. Is it true that I am alone? It doesn’t feel true. It feels as if there is something always with me. “Remember,” the...
by Stephanie Benedetto | Apr 5, 2020 | Stories
Once the children of the earth played and sang together with wild abandon. They came together to build bridges over lakes and streams, plant trees and harvest their fruits. They wove wild flowers through their hair and played games in ripe fields. Then one day, Poison...