Friendship Beats SEX!

FRIENDSHIP BEATS SEX!

Yes. It surprised me, too.

I keep track of what countries visit me and what key words on Google led them to me.

SEX. DOMINATRIX. SEDUCTION.

They were all popular. 

But every day my post “WHY FRIENDSHIP?” is a magnet for visitors.
 
FRIENDSHIP.

We yearn for it,

For we are the Hollow People.

Science will tell you that. Inside an atom is a nucleus, composed of flying neutrons and protons.

The nucleus is orbited by electrons, travelling so fast, they seem to form a solid shell. In between them? Empty space.

Squeeze all the empty space out of each of our atoms, and we would be but a handful of dust.

Like an atom’s nucleus, many of us fly through life so fast, we project the illusion of solidity.

But like the atom’s nucleus, we are hollow.

Walk the streets of any large city and look into the eyes of those you pass. Slip through the veneer we put up to keep the predators at bay,

and you will see the hollowness of their spirits,

yearning for friendship, for connection with a kindred spirit.

To no longer be hollow.

That is why friendship plays such a large role in all of my novels, 

even in the last fantasy in my Silhouettes in the Key of Scream 

 https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07GVFH1PF/

I said, “All in the House Eternal are my charges.  I will see to them or die.” 

Mouse chirped, “I vote for a greater margin of error.” 

I patted his small head.  “I give you leave to flee to the shadows, little friend.” 

Mouse’s eyes deepened.  

“You may not remember the time you first fed me. 

Or the time you first scooped me up into the safety of your shirt pocket. 

Or the time you waited at the crossroads for me to catch up. 

But I do, and the end of your skein of days will be mine.”
 
Have a lovely Christmas Season, my friends.