The Luminary and the Floating Garden. ®.

The Luminary and the Floating Garden. ®.

Microstory. 

Fantasy. Science Fiction. 

Mysticism. Philosophy.

Jorge Ofitas Author. 

In an unknown universe where nothing had lived, the Great Night reigned. It was not a night of darkness, but of Absolute Silence, where the only truth was the Immutable Calm.

No one had ever known the Floating Garden, because no one had ever existed there. It was a garden of weightless perfection, alien to the slightest friction, sustained by the total absence of karma.

There were no other planets either, nor were there moons, nor were there stars. Only one Luminary that turned on in the sky once and remained fixed, silently observing the Floating Garden. Its name was Mistic Ligth.

One day, the Luminary began to create. With flashes of its light, it created forms: animals, plants, and a static lake. It created a marvelous garden. And in it, it created ethereal beings that scurried around there, who had intelligence, who named themselves and who were superintelligent. Although they possessed individuality, everything was mere flashes of the Luminary.

Until, one unexpected day, in that garden of calm and light, an interstellar ship from a humanoid civilization very far from those confines saw the Floating Garden. From their monitors, a calm that left them ecstatic was reflected, and they decided to land on it to investigate. They wanted to tread those lands at all costs.

When the space travelers descended from the ship and stepped onto the Floating Garden, absolutely everything solidified.

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Author of microstory: Jorge Ofitas. 

Europe. 2025. ®.