“But what a funny thing it is to travel like that, leaving little fragments of one’s heart more or less everywhere.”
– Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sarte, 16 March, 1947
Art – Tamara de Lempicka painting a portrait of her first husband Tadeusz de Lempicki, 1928
“If I keep a green bough in my heart, the singing bird will come.”
– Chinese Proverb
Art by Henry Meynell Rheam (1859-1920).
Enthralling story by Brian J. Welch on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
“… Those who watched loved nothing more than the entertainment that her kiss provided, something to break up their monotonous and feckless lives. The crowd saw only show. Louis, however, saw only her grace… and her neglect. He could see that although she stood tall and proud in the square, fulfilling her purpose, what she really needed was a few moments of tenderness…”
About the author: Currently, I live in Austin and work as a designer in the construction industry. I have an MFA in Studio Art from Mass College of Art and Design where I focused on books as conceptual art. I have since decided to try my hand at writing a few, though I have not yet been published.
“She decided to free herself, dance into the wind, create a new language. And birds fluttered around her, writing “yes” in the sky.”
– Monique Duval
“Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.”
T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1912
Art by Francesco Lojacono.
David Lohrey on Sudden Denouement Literary Collective
He tells me Fashion has a purpose.
“You’re not against anything,” I say.
This is part of the problem. People
defend the end of the world, explain
it, like they don’t care. Like if they
understand it, they can control it.
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/03/20/the-crime-of-understanding-david-lohrey/
David Lohrey’s plays have been produced in Switzerland, Croatia, and Lithuania. In the US, his poems can be found at the RavensPerch, New Orleans Review, Nice Cage, and The Drunken Llama. Internationally, his work appears in journals located in the UK, the Netherlands, India, Malawi, and Hungary. His fiction can be seen at Dodging the Rain, Terror House Magazine, and Literally Stories. David’s collection of poetry, MACHIAVELLI’S BACKYARD, was published by Sudden Denouement Publishers. He lives in Tokyo. You can read more of his writing at Writing, Musing, Poetry.
“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?”…
“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden
Art – Salvador Dali, The First Day of Spring, 1922 – 1923
Sudden Denouement Welcomes New Collective Member R. S. Williams – These Broken Gods II
“We and us, as gods of ink,
with stars snatched in fists made of paper and power,
shall sin…”
R.S. Williams writes strange and provocative things, usually from multiple perspectives—human and otherwise. She has an increasingly codependent relationship with words and started writing them down as a way to get even closer to them. You can read more of R.S.’ writing on Instagram and Facebook.
“To romanticise the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.”
– Novalis
Art – Sunset by Arkady Rylov (1870 – 1939)
“I don’t think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.”
– Andrew Wyeth
Art by Andrew Wyeth.
