The Gathering When Sam came to, he was sitting in the middle of a pentagram. Dale’s pentagram had looked like the child’s version of this one. The candles dotting each angle were three feet tall, set on thick silver sticks filigreed with golden fractals and inlaid with rubies. The pentagram wasn’t raked into the ground with a stick […]
Silas Plum continues his interview this week describing his connection to his art, and his intentions with it. Have you ever had an “Aha!” moment, whether it was figuring out your style, your message, etc.? If so, what was it? I can’t say that there is a single Archimedes-in-the-bathtub Eureka moment that defines every subsequent […]
Her life is a jeweled lavaliere of loses, each loss an onyx milestone: two later-term stillbirths, a dead brother from a hunting accident, there had been failed marriages, a son’s suicide by cop. Saffron was all about sailing. If only she could’ve collected a bounty of crystal ships that drifted the high seas. Admittedly, that […]
Shades of Departure by Dirk James Life, designed as a rose flowering layer upon layer, petal over petal. The story of creation coming into full bloom. A blueprinted moon placed in motion over this handmade earth moving through the transparency of air. At dawn, one shadow squared across acres of light. The […]