Paired Epics, Life and Afterlife of a Couple Through Time

Paired Epics of a Couple Through Time: Life and Afterlife

Zoe and Tod share an ordinary human life—childhood and marriage, estrangement and return, aging and loss. Yet their story unfolds along unusual paths. Across a series of interconnected tales, they move between the everyday and the mythic: childhood forts that open into other worlds, adolescent passages through dissociation and healing, shamanic caves where time loosens its grip, journeys across seas and mountains where love is tested, renewed, and reimagined. Even before death, their lives brush against untime—moments when memory, destiny, and recognition quietly break through the surface of lived experience.

After death, the journey does not end. It widens.

In a second, paired epic, Zoe and Tod awaken within the unfolding history of the universe itself. Passing through the birth of the cosmos, the rise of life, and the emergence of human culture, they inhabit evolution from within—fish, amphibian, mammal—before entering the world of myth, ritual, power, and law. Guided by angelic and archetypal figures, they encounter rulers and slaves, temples and empires, learning that the deepest struggle is no longer survival, but recognition: seeing the other as fully human beneath the masks of authority and fear.

Together, these two epics—earthly and cosmic—form a single voyage told in different mediums of being. Love, once practiced under the constraints of time and history, is tested again in a larger register, where memory becomes moral weight and mercy becomes choice. Life and afterlife are not separate stories here, but paired conditions of one shared existence.

Blending fantasy, magical realism, myth, and philosophical reflection, Paired Epics of a Couple Through Time invites readers to imagine a life as it is lived—and as it might be understood when seen whole.