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Time with the Lovers moved slowly, like cold molasses. They played all day and made love every night. The Fool would sometimes not talk to them for days. Rarely the time would come when the Fool would spend any time with either of the Lovers one-on-one.  I was the queen of a far off land, […]

The Fool could smell smoke as he walked deeper into the cave, away from the Devil. He felt his way further and further from the opening, where the giant silhouette of a demon still waited for him. Forward it got darker until he couldn’t see anything at all. Suddenly he found himself on a great […]

As the Emperor dealt with his subjects, the Fool walked around the canyon and found a large oak tree. As he got closer he could see a body lying in repose on a catafalque in the shade of the giant tree. Four swords hung above the body on the tree by heavy nails. A familiar […]

Death stared at the Fool with grinning menace, the scythe leaning on the bloody soil amongst the talking body parts. The Fool was filled with dread. He couldn’t read the skull’s facial expression. Was he to die now? Was Death just waiting for the time to come? Raindrops started falling from the sky and onto […]

One day of the many days that the Fool studied under the Priestess, the Priestess told the Fool to approach the far end of the room. The Fool walked for many minutes across the black and white tiled floor. His footfalls echoed across the vast room. Soon he saw a figure kneeling next to a […]

The Fool walked into a temple where a king was playing the harp. The chords sounded complicated and baffling, but the Fool felt his heartstrings plucked all the same, and kneeled down to listen to this music. The king didn’t even look up at his recently arrived audience, as he had his eyes closed in […]

The Fool found himself at the feet of an elaborately-dressed Asian woman. She sat on a gold bench draped with silk and her crown was an ornate and dazzling display of wealth. To her right, large tall sunflowers bowed ever so slightly towards her. She looked at the Fool with a stern and critical stare. […]

Even though time and space don’t matter in this world, the Fool ran into the Knight of Wands somewhere and sometime. It was in a hot desert full of sand dunes. Up and down he walked over those dunes. It was like being lost in a sea of sand. He saw a snake swimming across […]