They say that seeing is believing.
But what if you are the only one with a vision?

Unending Wonders of a
Subatomic World (or)
In Search of The Great Penguin

by Juli Kearns

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Once upon a time there was an Antarctic Emperor penguin that was mailed to a cold place in Wyoming called Little America. This cold place was named Little America after Admiral Richard Byrd’s ice-shingled, circa 1933 Ross Shelf expedition camp down where the Emperor penguins roamed, which was how someone got the brainy idea to mail a penguin to Wyoming in the first place.

The Emperor penguin died en route. But that’s all right. Its carcass was preserved, not on ice but in glass, destiny conspiring with destination to make the bird a fun curio for the Ross Shelf’s foster child, the Little America haven for travelers bested by Big Daddy America’s comprehensive sea to shimmer shining sea gluttony in Wyoming’s southwestern desert.

Over three feet in height, he might have been big for an Emperor penguin, but he was no colossus. Well, maybe in spirit he was. Could have been. People might have said about him, “That penguin sure stands tall for a penguin.” We think it’s more likely that what has been most frequently said about him is, “Oh, it’s DEAD!”

Chance Hope had wanted all her life, more than anything, to share the Great Penguin with someone else. Maybe even someone who would understand. That’s the kind of love and good will that the Great Penguin had inspired in Chance over the years. And face it, Very little inspire that kind of love and good will in everyone. A lot of wars have been fought in the name of very little.

No war had been fought in the name of the Great Penguin, though no two people had ever seen it in the same light.

Yet it is possible, if one is searching, and the subatomic world intervenes, to see eye to eye.


UNENDING WONDERS OF A SUBATOMIC WORLD is angst-ridden, slap-happy, run if you can't leave 'em laughing investigation on the questions of mad coincidence and improbable meaning that keep the denizens of this particular food chain universe eating and copulating as the Big Wheel they ride bumps along toward whatever end has captured its fancy. And while along for the ride, let's at least have some fun with it in a perhaps legitimate Ferrari, Italian sunglasses that lend operatic vistas, with a woman running from impending nuptials and an unfolding history in soft-core surrealist art porn, her working homeless friend who is grieving the loss of her 1972 Impala, a band by the name of Orange Joe playing behind a female Elvis impersonator, a golf shop owner who wants something more in life than a pyramid-scheming wife and trysts at the Oasis with his accountant, and reflections on America the Beautiful which killed off its buffalo and fenced up its First Nations peoples all so Faith Hazy and Chance Hope would be able to one day ride the interstate from Valentine, Georgia to Little America, fueled by novelty, convenience and Faith's patriotic determination to be a good consumer on someone else's bankroll.

UNENDING WONDERS OF A SUBATOMIC WORLD comes in a 6.0" x 9.0" package, perfect binding, 60# cream interior paper, black and white interior ink, 100# white exterior paper, full-color exterior.

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