A Novel Idea About God by Stephanie Holmberg
I have many worlds living in old notebooks, forgotten in the yellowing pages of school notepads and sketchbooks. Stories I created that are now piled away in storage, never to be touched upon again. There are worlds in those folios where continents are filled with vast deserts, lush forests, majestic mountains, endless grasslands, and rivers that rush into tumultuous seas. There are cities made of stone and wood nestled within valleys, some are now ruins, others still serve the living. Monsters roam country sides and heroes traverse roads both paved and beaten. All lost now between homework assignments of math theorems and historical dates. How many people lived in those worlds? Did they exist merely in the realm of my imagination, or did by imagining them were they given life? Did they live past my eventual discarding or did their lives just cease to be because I no longer held interest in them? Such thoughts come to me when I read a truly good novel and am transported int