David Given Schwarm

They had been married for thirty-five years.     When the occasion arose, she preferred to use the word pantomnesia, he the term déjà vu.     She argued that pantomnesia has Greek roots meaning “all” or “universal”–panto–and “mind” or “memory”–mnesia–and therefore is a more technically accurate term.     He suggested that she was a snob.   …

The Swedish mystic Emmanuel Swedenborg wrote a book called heaven and hell in which he describes the afterlife.     after dropping the physical body, souls transit into an intermediate realm where they meet dead friends and relative.    Following a period of self-examination, they are compelled to go to a particular afterlife world–either a “heaven”…

I was in jail for shoplifting. It was so stupid. Really, I must have wanted to get caughte and I was. It was a ring.     But the point of my story is that there was a women in my cell. She was there before I got there. I was afraid she’d been arrested for…

She was a brilliant painter, really an exceptional artist, and she suffered a lot of pain. She’d been in a care accident that injured her pelvis and spine, and although she initially seemed to recover from her injuries, her body was really broken beyond repair. She had numerous operations and amputations, none of which did…

The girl from the pharmacy who delivered Darvon to Philip K. Dick, the science fiction Writer, wore a gold fish necklace.  “What does that mean?” asked Dick.     she touched it and said, “This is a sign worn by the early Christians so that they would recognize one another.”     “In that instant,” Dick writes,…