Rudolph Barba
The Slipstream Way Station
“Fiction reveals truth reality obscures.”
---- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Welcome All!
The Slipstream Express will shortly be pulling into the
station, but meantime a few words about the itinerary.
For those that savor quality time off
the grid and are comfortable with the old school
practice of reading at length, you will strike a gold
vein of dazzling literary adventure should you opt to
board the Slipstream Express. Consider it a bucket list
expedition akin to sailing solo to all the world’s ports
of wonder…known and unknown, real and fabled.
If
you harbor a curiosity about the dynamics of mysterious
activities and quirky incidents that occasion to mingle
into our otherwise mundane existence, i.e., that space
alien living next door to you, or Siri calling to ask
you questions, or maybe your washing machine sucks you
inside, spins you like a top and spits you out the
dryer…proceed to the observation car for a enlightening
preview of things to come.
However, should
you be dogged by angst and dread, alarmed about shadowy,
powerful forces in high places secretly watching and
listening in on everyone everywhere while they stealthy
manipulate world events in real time, please take a seat
in the conference car. Listen to Dr. Panda Head’s
informative overview, highlighting the progress his
special ops team has made in dismantling the
transnational cabal’s brain trust (aka NOVORUM), which
is responsible for much of the fear and loathing in
today’s world.
Notwithstanding, while
the crusade against ill-intentioned forces is a
reoccurring theme throughout the odyssey, the side
jaunts are equally compelling. The voyage stretches from
the obscure nebulae of Knowhere to the storied Sea of
Tranquility, past the Archipelago of Quantalandia to the
shores of Shambhala. The route less traveled is
never-ending, as yet a still unmapped territory filled
with wonder and awe. Please remember to keep your arms
inside the Express cars at all times thank you.
Special guests
include a space-alien created artificial intelligence
giving an explicatory talk on the source of the
celebrated Philosopher’s Stone. It will also expound
upon the enigma of Dark Something, last surviving
remnant from before the Big Bang.
For
your security a motley posse of peculiar characters will
escort you through the alternate universe that is
patently strange, but what is stranger than that…is how
much it resembles our own world.
There are
neither happy endings nor sad endings to my tales,
reason being, there are no endings, the spin goes on and
on, taking on a life of its own, not unlike the
ceaseless spin of our planet as it endlessly orbits our
life giving sun.
The insights you will
gain from the tales I share are assuredly relevant in
today’s world…and tomorrow’s. Gradually, one page at a
time, a sweeping panorama will expose the bigger picture
of our world. Surprisingly it is not a glorious
landscape, but rather an edgy vista of our surreal
zeitgeist.
Caution:
At all times expect the unexpected, for the vagaries and
vicissitudes of the journey is relentless.
Tickets
sold on the Contact page.
Bon Voyage!