Inspired by a short extract from my new novel, the story fragment Inside Out is part of thought about the future to be carried out in the Writers Circle in Basel. In this case, it is about the future of medicine, learning and knowledge. Here are the first few sentences:
It seems so strange to our eyes now, but at the time they couldn’t see things otherwise, the healer explained, talking mind-to-mind to a handful of apprentice healers around the world. In those days, they came at the body from the outside. It wasn’t simply that they didn’t have our techniques to enter the body with their minds … (read on)