She changed my life the day she entered it. Long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and a penchant for yellow sundresses that blew my mind. She was a true Scandinavian beauty. Then there was her cousin. Long brunette locks, dark brown eyes that could melt a soul, and what she did to blue jeans should have been against the law. And they could play guitars better than I could. Now I was no slouch back then. I was The Guy. I played at all the beach parties, because I was just that good. Then they joined me and the music got so much better. We were totally in sync, body, mind, and soul. We made Heaven on Earth and I never wanted anything else but that.
I remember hundreds of thousands of people protesting election fraud last January 6th. They listened to President Trump’s speech telling them to be peaceful, and then started the hour-long march to the capitol. But Bad Actors had already come to the capitol prepared to do violence. They attacked the police during his speech, and managed to break into the capitol. Some of the crowd followed them in. Others were invited into the capitol when the police opened the doors and ushered them in. In part of the capitol, people were violently beating on doors, in another part they were calmly walking between rope lines and taking pictures, and elsewhere weird buffalo shaman dudes marched with TV camera crews recording every moment. Most of the crowd outside had no idea anything odd was going on. While protestors were dying not far away. It was a truly surreal day.
My parents did everything they could to raise me right. God knows they tried, but I was awful full of myself. I thought I was God’s gift to girls, and the best boy around. I was all that, and I was certain of it all. I was two hundred pounds of testosterone in a one hundred pound body, and I could bench press that truck over there if you asked me to prove it all. Then I met her. I’d say she was the girl of my dreams but she blew my dreams out of the water. I fell in love with her, the way only someone fifteen going on eighteen can fall. Hopelessly and completely. With all my heart and soul. And then I met her cousin.
I fell in love in high school. I was trying to puzzle my way through some song I don’t remember, when she grabbed the guitar out of my hands and played it the way it was meant to be played. With feeling. She had long blonde hair, bright blue eyes, and delicate fingers that could tickle those strings like a maestro. And that yellow sundress about blew my mind. That is one of the moments that will live with me forever. It was the first day of the rest of my life. The day I fell hopelessly and completely in love with someone who wasn’t me.
I have visited Memory Worlds throughout explored space. Some are purely digital, while others are physical recreations of real world or fictional places. I have walked through the streets of Nineteenth Century London, and through the meadows of Middle Earth. Narnia and modern Los Angeles. Other times I have navigated the digital archives directly, scrolling through the compiled knowledge of mankind at a rate that cannot be believed. The Memory Worlds are more than I imagined in some ways. Surprisingly down to Earth in others. We did create the cybers in our own image, after all. They will forever be a part of us, and we will forever be a part of them. They are the ultimate proof that humanity has created beauty.
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