I’ll forever be picking up the pieces :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 9)

Keep Art Alive :: Art by Unknown “I was born, on the wrong side of town.” Jack forgot the stack of comics that Joe had brought back for him. They lay there forgotten on the passenger seat. Jack had spent the late afternoon helping carry two bags, three black trash bags, and a heavy cardboard box from the truck bed into a small room above the garage of the house behind the gas station. Rae followed him at first, a shadow silently duplicating each step he made. Jack wanted to say something clever, he wanted to say anything really, but … Continue reading I’ll forever be picking up the pieces :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 9)

The world of the broken hearted :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 8)

Keep Art Alive :: “Sweet Tooth” :: Art by Christopher Mitten “Just move yourself, don’t go back, don’t stand against the wall! Just move yourself, and feel it.” Jack was stoic, shy and far too slender. He would stand in the back whenever possible, take the last seat in the room, spending lunches in the school library, making his way through the shelves of “other worlds“. Joe and Jo off the highway would hire him for odd jobs, paying him in comic books that Joe would pick up once a month when he drove into the city of Neon. It … Continue reading The world of the broken hearted :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 8)

He makes my heart a cinemascope screen :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 7)

Keep Art Alive :: Art by Jody Hewgill “If I’m butter, if I’m butter, If I’m butter, then he’s a hot knife.” Three years, give or take a few break it and bring it right back lost weekends, we had gathered an arsenal of fatal weaponry. It happens when two people come together this way, when convenience and loneliness merge and meld into something we say is love. Settled, well, I suppose we did, but at the time we thought our actions were unique, authentic, and a hand clasped shared kind of freedom. Every box I filled whispered a delicious … Continue reading He makes my heart a cinemascope screen :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 7)

A lady of war :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 6)

Keep Art Alive :: “Mrs. Frost” :: Art by Menton3 “I’m fooling somebody. A faithless path to roam, deceiving to breathe this secretly. This silence, a silence I can’t bear.” Laney used to make up fairy tales about their Mother. The stories, they always included evil curses conjured up by some unknown force of nature who whisked her away, their Mother, into some frozen land. She was beautiful, our Mother, Laney would say. She was brighter than the sun and warmer than the middle of July. That’s why they took her, Laney explained, because the witches of the Frost Netherlands … Continue reading A lady of war :: SOTD (Advent Calendar Version – Day 6)