Surfacing (Spark Saga) (26 page)

             
Nothing in this world as we know it is ever permanent, save what happens above and beyond time.  Love.  Love is permanent.  Love is ours.

             
When these words appear in my mind—words that are not really mine, yet familiar—I hear Zach’s voice—the comforting, beautiful sound of the one who has been by my side every minute of my life, it seems.  This, I know, will never change. 

             
And I get in my car and drive away.  The dream—our dream—you see, is real, and someday, through time and space, we will live it.

About the Author:

Melissa Green
Dereberry is an award-winning author whose work has appeared in
Common Boundary, American Literary Realism,
The Quest, Midwest Poetry Review,
and
Writer’s Journal
. She is the author of an instructional guide on the novel
The Outsiders
. Her first novel,
Somewhere Like Here,
a literary mystery, was published in 2012.  Her awards include the Springfield Writer’s Guild Grand Prize (1998), the Johnson Memorial Grand Prize Award—League of Minnesota Poets (2003), the William Stafford Award—Washington Poets Association (2009), and the
Writer’s Journal
poetry contest (2011). She is currently a lecturer in the English and Technical Communication Department at Missouri University of Science & Technology.