Author's Note

In case you forgot, this is Señor Huevos.

May 2024: "In the Garden"

Life Passes You By

The glimpse had lasted mere moments, yet it had changed everything.

Had Señor Huevos been able to close his eyes — he couldn’t, and he wasn’t aware of the concept — he still would have seen it. The other world, the world of so much more.

It was still lacking in a third dimension, the kind only his own body and sombrero seemed to occupy. Yet it was far beyond what he'd ever known; vibrant, astonishing, colorful, full of life. Full of activity. Full of beings. A garden of infinite possibility.

And yet he’d run. And when he'd thought to return, it was gone.

Señor Huevos stared at the landscape around him, where the shapes now seemed all wrong, the sky a blank space, the trees lifeless. For the first time, he grasped how empty the world around him truly was.

All he could do to fill it was scream.