When the Clouds Taste Like Cotton Candy

What happens when a six-year-old’s questions are too profound for anyone to answer, and his only hope of understanding is to meet God face-to-face?

A devastating narrative set in a small Swiss village about Åsa, a six-year-old boy cursed with extraordinary intelligence and synesthesia — he can see music as dancing colors and taste the hues of the sky. Unable to find answers to his profound existential questions and misunderstood by everyone around him, Åsa’s desperate quest to speak directly with God leads him down a tragic path.

Åsa was only six years old but very different from his age mates. He preferred his own company over that of his friends’. A conflict raged like a storm within him. Outside, he was all sunshine and flowers and butterflies, and inside, he was as dark as the heavy rain clouds.

Åsa was also highly intelligent but depressed. The bright flashes of intelligence lit the heavy clouds of depression at frequent intervals.

Åsa’s high intelligence led to an increased curiosity. He questioned everything and everybody and felt a unique and desperate need to understand the world surrounding him. The depression was the result of his inability to mix up and play with his age mates.

The depression also came in the form of frustration when his queries weren’t answered…