title: Coloring the Vortex: Adult Coloring Book
author: Jessica Leigh Shahan
description: Jessica Leigh Shahan is an artistic Texan Mama raising a rambunctious baby boy along with her sweet Green Cheek Conure BeBe.
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  **UNIVERSES**
  
   **by Robert F. Young**
  
  art: James Odbert
  
   **The Sage of Silver Creek has sent us another story—quiet and** **deep.
  His**
  
   **new novel, The Last Yggdrasil, was published in May by Del Rey** **Books.**
  
  Conversation ripples across the posh pavilion where the party is in progress.
  Nearby, a little inland lake has stolen the stars from the sky. I am an
  honored guest, and I stand in the midst of admirers listening to the voice of
  the girl with whom I have just danced. She is like a slender vase with
  sunflowers in it, and the sunflowers are her hair. The gentian blueness of the
  vase is the gown which shimmers round her in the soft pulsating light. She is
  talking lighttalk—the weather, the latest news, a new book she is going to
  read—and I am listening to her voice as though it were something above and
  beyond the conversational ripple of which it is a part; as though she were the
  only girl growing in the garden of girls around me.
  
  It is all a marvel to me—the dance, 