One could taste the New Year in the air. Smells of freshly baked sweet buns and vanilla cakes filled the dingy streets of the Old City. Ahmed walked on it’s stone paved roads, freshly washed by the vendors this morning. …

Walt was convinced about the multiverse. “You might feel that there is just one globe, but the truth is there are many globes”, he would tell his daughter , “slippery-jittery-wobbly-bobbly bubbles, packed in a big, gigantic glass jar..” He would make a big hand gesture as if the multiverse jar…

June 13th 8834, Moon The school bus briefly hovered over Dome Number 4 and then gradually began its descent. From far away the dome looked like one of those souvenir snow-globes from Earth : misty, filled with dense green foliage, dotted with flowers of many colors. …