“Remember, ‘No one’s more important than people’! In other words, friendship is the most important thing…not career or housework, or one’s fatigue…and it needs to be tended and nurtured.”
– Julia Child – My Life in France
Art by Pablo Picasso.
Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Shawn Archibald
“Jung was absolutely right about one thing. We are occupied by gods. The mistake is to identify with the god occupying you.”
― Michael Ondaatje, Anil’s Ghost
Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Dana R Glover
Bio: Writer, reader, photographer. I am no mystery. I worry too much. Sleep too little. I argue too loudly. I praise profusely. I use ink to shed my tears. I am fearless unless left alone to talk to myself. Professionally unpublished but I welcome constructive critique.
“Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, known for their mystical styles, flourished in Mexico.”
Read more on www.nytimes.com:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/13/arts/design/leonora-carrington-paintings.html
Enthralling black-and-white dominion on Sudden Denouement:
Contest Finalist Nitin Lalit Murali
Nitin Lalit Murali is a poet, flash fiction writer and essayist from Bangalore, India. He also enjoys reading literature of different genres and listening to jazz and neo-classical music. He started writing seven years ago and art has consumed him over the years. He blogs regularly at Fighting the Dying Light.
“Color! What a deep and mysterious language, the language of dreams.”
– Paul Gauguin
Art by Paul Gauguin.
Spillwords – A place to spill thoughts through words. A literary press where one can read, share, submit and gain a door to the world through writing.
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
― Frank Herbert, Dune
Art by Joanna Karpowicz.
Let’s say that most of us flicker in silence, David Lohrey is one of the few who flickers in a roar.
Read his amazing piece on Sudden Denouement:
The Invention of Arson
Who started the fires? Many are drawn to the flames – men and women
in equal number. They clamber to get closer. They take off work to travel:
the flames climbing higher, engulfing, filling the skies. The smoke gets in
everything; there are ashes in the houses, on the carpets. Many stand still
and hold out their tongues. They tear off their clothing. They crave the heat. They’re excited by the smell of ruin. They’re delirious…
https://suddendenouement.com/2019/07/01/the-invention-of-arson-david-lohrey/
[David Lohrey is from Memphis, where he grew up, and now lives in Tokyo, where he teaches and writes for local travel magazines. He graduated from UC Berkeley and then moved to LA where he lived for over 20 years.
Internationally, his poetry can be found in Otoliths, Stony Thursday Anthology, Sentinel Quarterly, and Tuck Magazine. In the US, recent poems have appeared in Poetry Circle, FRiGG, Obsidian, and Apogee Journal. His fiction can be read in Crack the Spine, Dodging the Rain, and Literally Stories.
David’s The Other Is Oneself, a study of 20th-century literature, was published in 2016, while his first collection of poetry, Machiavelli’s Backyard, was released in September 2017. He is a member of the Sudden Denouement Collective.]