{"id":649,"date":"2026-03-29T19:31:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-29T19:31:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tnf.ola.mybluehost.me\/rw\/2026-spring\/?page_id=649"},"modified":"2026-04-29T23:52:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T23:52:39","slug":"shadows-of-totality","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2026-spring\/shadows-of-totality\/","title":{"rendered":"Shadows of Totality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<style>\n\t.authorBio {\n\t\tbackground: linear-gradient(90deg, #333, #ffffff);\nborder-radius: 96px;\n\t\tpadding: 16px;\n\t}\n\t.authorBio a {\n\t\tcolor: white;\n\t}\n\th1, h2 {\n\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t}\nh2 {\nfont-size: 32px;\npadding: 0 32px;\n}\n\n\t.headingBox {\n\t    left: 50%;\n\t\ttop: 80%;\n\t    transform: translate(-50%, -50%);\n\t\tposition: absolute;\n\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\twidth: 100% !important;\n\t}\n\t.headingBox  h1 {\n\t\tcolor: #bbc9cb;\n\t\tfont-size: 48px;\n\t\ttext-shadow: 4px 4px 8px black;\n\t}\n\t.imgOne {\n\t    max-height: 160px !important;\n\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\tz-index: 2;\n\t}\n\t.imgTwo {\n\t\tmargin-left: -120px !important;\n\t\tmax-width: 154px !important;\n\t\tposition: relative;\n\t\tz-index: 1;\n\t}\n.purple {\n  margin-block-start: .5em;\n  margin-block-end: .5em;\n}\n\t.titleImg {\n\t\t\tposition: relative;\n\t}\n\t.titleImg img {\n\t\taspect-ratio: auto;\n\t    height: auto;\n\t\tmargin: 32px auto;\n\t\tmax-width: 100%;\n\t\twidth: 100%;\n\t}\n\t.titleBox {\n\t\talign-items: center;\n\t\tdisplay: flex;\n\t}\n\t.titleBox div:nth-child(2) {\n\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t}\n\t.titleBox div:first-child, .titleBox div:nth-child(3) {\n\t\twidth: 25%;\n\t}\n  @media (max-width: 860px) {\n.titleBox {\n  display: block;\n}\n.titleBox div {\n  width: 100% !important;\n}\n  }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"container\">\n\t<div class=\"content\">\n\t    <section class=\"backNext\">\n\t      <h4><a href=\"https:\/\/societyforritualarts.com\/coreopsis\/\">Back to Journals<br> Home<\/a><\/h4>\n\t      <h4><a href=\"\/rw\/2026-spring\/when-the-bees-fell-quiet\/\">Next Wonderous<br> Story<\/a><\/h4>\n\t    <\/section>\n\t    <h4 class=\"purple\">Fiction<\/h4>\n\t    <h4 class=\"purple\">Featured Author<\/h4>\n\t    <main class=\"text\">\n\t    \t<div class=\"titleBox\">\n\t    \t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2>By Torger Vedeler<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"titleImg\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/rw\/2026-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Lannie_Totality.jpg\"\/>\n<div class=\"headingBox\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h1>Shadows of Totality<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2>Illustrated by Lannie Pihajlic<\/h2>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<p>It is a hole, an eye into the past and future. That\u2019s what my friend said, and I believe him. I also know that others may not agree; to them an eclipse is only an event in the sky, just planetary circumstance, just that most unlikely of cosmic events. The moon is its size, you see, and the sun is its size, and their placement so perfect to grant us this. Many millions of years ago, the moon was too close to let the corona be seen, and some millions or even billions of years from now it will be too far away.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>There will be no total eclipses then, not like the ones today.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>But is such accuracy the only thing that really matters? Because I was also there, standing on the line of its shadow, watching with special glasses to protect my eyes, hearing a woman nearby give a breathless countdown, second after second, until\u2026 until\u2026 then.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>Totality.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>It all really began some years before.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>His name was Bill, and he was my friend. I don\u2019t quite know how our friendship started; who ever does? You may recall your first meeting, something the two of you did together, some fun you had, but when did you know, really know, that this was more than just an acquaintance? Friday nights became regular, when he was off work and I was off work and it just began, first with enchiladas and then with pizza. What did we talk about?<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>I don\u2019t remember. But I do remember that we talked, and that we laughed, and that it was good. We saw that it was good.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>You don\u2019t notice at first, and then you do. It\u2019s a bright day, no different from a thousand others, until what you know will happen begins to happen, because that perfect day will suddenly change. Astronomers have predicted it with their science, right down to the second as the shadow passes over you, and they have their explanations. The moon will block the sun, leaving you in darkness. But the scholars cannot explain other things that come with this, things the animals know.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>It starts to grow cool, and the birds react. Their songs change, each distinct and each unfamiliar. It is evening but not evening, not right. Can you hear these songs? With your protective glasses you look up, and there it is, a slice taken out of the sun, the moon claiming hegemony, only for now, only for this time.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>Bill got sick. Cancer. I didn\u2019t know, Bill. I was away for that one year and I didn\u2019t suspect. I thought things would be forever. A friendship, a good and true friendship, should be forever, shouldn\u2019t it? I remember before, how you always carefully blew your smoke away from me and out the open car window when we drove, maybe wanting to protect me, or just out of courtesy. Your one vice, and the only foolish thing I ever saw you do.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>So I wasn\u2019t there at the end. My own life had intervened. I couldn\u2019t sit with you in the hospital and say goodbye.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<br>\n\t\t\t<center><b>\u2026<\/b><\/center>\n\t\t\t<p>The birds are uncertain now. You can still hear them, asking why, wanting to understand. Why is the world the way it is? Why do things happen the way they do? We could tell them, I suppose, with our science and our knowledge, but do we really have the answers?<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>Perhaps the birds know something that we do not.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>It\u2019s dark now, and growing darker. Still I look up, seeing the crescent through my protective glasses, knowing\u2026 knowing\u2026 waiting\u2026.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>There! The flash, glasses off for these few brief moments, the protection and the barrier not needed. I am safe and you are there.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>The most important thing.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<b>\u2026<\/b><b>\u2026<\/b>\n\t\t\t<p>In the sun and the moon, in the black place at the center of the halo, in the awe that has no words but simply takes my breath away, you are there.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cBill?\u201d I ask.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>Yes.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cI\u2019m sorry, Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>Sorry? What do you have to be sorry for?<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t with you at the end. I didn\u2019t know\u2026.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>That I was sick?<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>That I would die?<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cYes.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>A smile, your gentle, eternal smile, invisible but real within the perfect circle of blackness, surrounded by the perfect halo of that part of the sun we never see, the corona.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>We all die, my old friend. I went too soon, yes. The cigarettes, poison. Foolish.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>For a few of those precious seconds of totality I grow silent. \u201cWe all miss you,\u201d I manage. \u201cYou were so important to so many. Things just aren\u2019t the same.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>Things are never the same. Each new second is its own eternity in the great dance. I know what you are thinking, that if only you had known, that we could have had one last time, one last evening, one last joke, one last trip out for pizza. Yet there would still be a hunger after that, wouldn\u2019t there? Because we are friends. We will both always want more time together, more laughter, more of the good company. But the good things are also eternal, outside of time itself. That we had them cannot be undone.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>The eclipse stares down at both of us, on us, a brief, transient moment that I want to go on forever.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cI miss you,\u201d I tell him again. Tears roll over my cheeks, each giving a tiny reflection of the corona we so rarely see. Bill is still wearing that unique smile.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>I know. I miss you too. It\u2019s all right.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cWhy now?\u201d I ask. \u201cWhy do I see you now?\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>His old chuckle. <i>The eclipse<\/i>, he says. <i>Maybe because this is the transient instant of eternity when the walls come down, all of them. And so this is when I can come to you and you can come to me. But at all other times, remember that I am still with you.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\u201cThere isn\u2019t much time,\u201d I tell him. \u201cTotality ends soon.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p><i>Yes. But I have learned that totality is also forever if you choose the right place to be. Somewhere in the universe, there is always totality: a planet or a moon blocking a sun in just the right way, a place behind worlds and suns and so in a place beyond them. There is all the time, and there always will be. Remember this and remember us, together.<\/i><\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>I try to speak but cannot. Now there is no need and there are no words, only the perfect corona of our unending friendship.<\/p>\n\t\t\t<br>\n\t\t\t<p>THE END<\/p>\n\t\t<\/main>\n\t\t<section class=\"authorBio\">\n\t\t\t<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imgOne\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/societyforritualarts.com\/rw\/2025-autumn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Torger-Tunnel.jpeg?ssl=1\"\/>\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"imgTwo\" src=\"\/rw\/2026-spring\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/eclipse_Totality.jpg\"\/>\n\t\t\t<p>Torger Veleder is a graduate of the Taos Writers Workshop in 2024, Torger Vedeler has had work published in a variety of science fiction and fantasy venues, including Not One of Us, Palimpsest, and The Fifth Di\u2026. 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