The Curiously Stunted, Incomprehensibly Disjointed, Perfectly Inadequate Adventures of Nicholas Cornelius Holloway – Episode 22

The Old One sang, and the bundle exploded.

The Old One sang, and time unfurled like a carpet.

The Old One sang, and stars raced on cosmic highways.

Oceans coalesced. Plants sprouted. Animals sprang from wooded vales.

The Old One sang, and a man appeared, walking on the time carpet.

“What a peculiar accident of circumstance that all of this should be,” he said.

The Old One sang, and the man kept walking, whistling a tune he couldn’t quite place.