title: Living on the Edge of Heaven: The Humorous Exploits of a Boy, His Soul, and His Purpose
author:  G Edward 
description: Over a career spanning more than thirty years, G. Edward has worked as an engineer, a technical salesman, a general manager, a consultant, and a business owner. While technical writing during his earliest years as an aerospace engineer, his creative prose caused both trouble and success. After a full corporate career, he moved on to start a hardware business. A connoisseur for people and experiences, real life is fertilizer for prose, and he returned to his love of a more creative style of writing. Writing feature columns for magazines and at Gedwardpress.com, he writes "The Nuts and Bolts of Things" , " The Edge of Heaven", and "Overheard at the Hardware Store." He, his wife, and children gather at the shores of a lake in Wisconsin, just this side of heaven.
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  A Fragment of Life
  
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  # A Fragment of Life
  
  
  ### Arthur Machen
  
  
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  Edward Darnell awoke from a dream of an ancient wood, and of a
  
  
  clear well rising into grey film and vapour beneath a misty,
  
  
  glimmering beat; and as his eyes opened he saw the sunlight bright in
  
  
  the room, sparkling on the varnish of the new furniture. He turned and
  
  
  found his wife's place vacant, and with some confusion and wonder of
  
  
  the dream still lingering in his mind, he rose also, and began
  
  
  hurriedly to set about his dressing, for he had overslept a little, and
  
  
  the 'bus passed the corner at 9.15. He was a tall, thin man,
  
  
  dark-haired and dark-eyed, and in spite of the routine of the City,
  
  
  the counting of coupons, and all the mechanical drudgery that had
  
  
  lasted for ten years, there still remained about him the curious hint
  
  
  of a wild grace, as if he had been bor