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Steve Hanson
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Stars Over The Desert
The sun setting over the Sahara Desert Looking back, I’m amazed at how last-minute my trip to the Sahara ended up being. At no point during my two-week excursion to Morocco did I plan on camping out in the middle of vast sand dunes in the largest desert on Earth. The trip was, at first, mainly business. As a recently degreed grad student, I had contracts to act as a “consultant” for universities in the Moroccan cities of Marrakesh and Casablanca.
By Steve Hanson2 months ago in Wander
Over Jordan
Two days into her cross-country podcasting journey, Cassandra was cruising through Pennsylvania on Interstate I-80 West with her influencer friend, trying t0 half-sleep away her anxiety in the passenger seat of her boyfriend’s 2015 Nissan Versa. She dipped briefly into dream logic and felt, for a few seconds, that the cold wind blowing through her naked toes was the same sound as the twangy guitar crackling through old speakers in her memory.
By Steve Hanson11 months ago in Fiction
The Little Mermaid
Far out in the ocean, the water is as blue as the petals of the loveliest cornflower, and as clear as the purest glass. In the deepest expanses of the ocean, there lie miraculous palaces carved out of sea crystals. Dazzling temples and palaces built from gargantuan pearls forged from clams larger than any known to mankind. Bioluminescent jade and emerald jewels decorate magnificent halls far older than the memory of those that live on the surface.
By Steve Hanson11 months ago in Fiction
Isle of the Dead. Runner-Up in Painted Prose Challenge.
“Papa?” Ada’s voice broke through a shallow and dreamless sleep. Mattias opened his eyes to a room no less dark than the space behind his eyelids. He reached for either the bedside lamp or for Miriam, before remembering he was sleeping on the couch.
By Steve Hansonabout a year ago in Art
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