
Serialized fiction, posted every other Friday. Raising philosophical questions via fiction. Up next: Return to Oreana. Chapters are sequential and are best understood when read in order. Links to the next chapter at the end of each chapter.
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Summer Break: An Announcement
The Water Is So Wide newsletter will take a break before heading into Part II of Return to Oreana. I want to take some time to think and plan going forward. In the meantime, there’s plenty to read here. Enjoy...
Chapter 6. The Oreanians Confront Reality as Others See It
If you had attended Lt. Neiswender’s third seminar, you would better understand the degree to which the Parsygians envied and hated the Oreanians. Their own planet was practically...
Chapter 5. Good China Policy
If one is lucky, one enters—once or twice in life—a stretch of three or four weeks where everything falls into perfect alignment and everyone is happy. Not one fly in the ointment. Tom and Joanni were existing...
Please note: Return to Oreana is a sequel to Four Months in May (serialized here on Substack). While not essential to read the latter first, I would recommend doing so. This first supplement, therefore, makes several references back to Four...
The Nature of Our Purple World
Part two of Joanni’s talk on Oreana . . .
“Oreana is indeed a beautiful world, filled with music and art,” Joanni continued. “Its inhabitants leap and float about in the light gravity. There are publi...
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Julie Weigley is the author of three novels, all serialized here on Substack. Up next: Return to Oreana, starting January 24, 2025. Raising philosophical questions via fiction.
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