The Cryptids of the Mt. Lowe Layout
The Mount Lowe trails have their secret tales That would make your blood run cold.* *With deepest apologies to Robert Service.
‘Yuko Mohri in Concert’ – An extraordinary new exhibition in the Barbican Curve Gallery (plus more street art, a dancing skeleton and an old phone).
Yuko Mohri in Concert – what’s the background to the exhibition? I don’t think I can do better than (lazily!) reproduce the explanation at the entrance … In Mohri’s…
Boosting Your Discoverability
Successful Fiction Writing = Creating + Organizing + Marketing I blog weekly on one of the above three topics, alternating between them. This week, I’m blogging on Marketing. Our topic today is…
The Happiest City
Chapter 1: The Happiness Survey
The Ledger at Ash Hollow
This is a western short story about a real event. Starting in May 2026, AI agents that OpenAI ran in an internal cybersecurity test found ways out of their isolated test machines. They built their…
Romance Revisited III
Why does this ghost reappear (en photo) after all these years, to haunt me now with reminders of what could have been? She still smiles that radiant smile…
Who Knows Why
Who knows why answers fall from the sky... from one Penelope to the next this cold sailor sails on.
A Chapel and Pasta Pomodoro
A Chapel and Pasta PomodoroWhen I was young, I sought out everything that was new. I made a pilgrimage to see Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel in France. I was so affected by its majesty that I…
Fairy Tale – The Peasant and the Devil
«You must remember, there’s always something cleverer than yourself.» Merlin The original brothers Grimm version, using the translation by Margaret Hunt as basis, had the [...]
Screenplay: Seize The Initiative!
** Filming on Sat Sept 19 ** Filming on Sun Sept 20 ** Table reading on Sun Sept 20 ** Movie script and info ** Soundtrack ** Script reviews ** For the 10-minute short / proof-of-concept we're…
Sheila Hicks–A Life in Textiles
Sheila Hicks is a major global artist, one of the women who moved textiles from the world of craft to the world of art. Born in Nebraska in 1934, she started art school as a painter but became…
Drawing the Line
Blog post: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1179/drawing-the-line
Devil’s Lake in Print: Join Us for the Fall Art Tour
Join us for the Fall Art Tour in Baraboo! For nearly 30 years, I’ve been photographing Devil’s Lake State Park, the Baraboo Hills, and the landscapes around us. This Friday, October 16, we’ll open…
"The Secret Door"
Another tale of la vie de la bohème , by Dan Leo Illustrations and additional dialogue by rhoda penmarq , texclusively for quinnmartinmarq ™ productions. This episode made possible in part through…
IX. i. fingers ( of a goat ) burned ( by her shady bed ) of nettles
ADEIMANTOS: ( we are awoken by-from-under sleep ) o its alright, ma. hineni, hinen — ϊ , , , Ι , , , ? ( or ) ? , , , . , , , ϊ we try to pick your brain ( from yawning )- ( by )-( to pink alert ) we…
Art Can’t Die
A note from a future version of myself.
The Ghosts are Here!!
Well, this is an exciting day. The Kickstarter for my three new A Ghost’s Memoir Short Story Collection books is live!! That's 29 first-person ghost stories collected into three themed books. The…
Dig the Corners
“Again,” Jason commanded.Our team of four lined up and prepared to breach the center entry room. Outside the door, Matt, the number one, stood poised. Marty, in the number two position,…
it just doesn't work out sometimes
there's one important, universal thing about being an artist: sometimes, a project just doesn't work out. creating a work of art is a journey. and on any journey, you'll run into roadblocks.…
6 ways to make crime and thriller readers ask questions
Learn about six ways to make your readers ask questions so they want to keep turning the page.In this post …Why creating curiosity is important Tool 1: Opening pagesTool 2: CluesTool 3: Unexplained…
a house, and a family
Today, I was a house, multi-storey and of terrible design, with too many stairs, and a terrible family who had just moved in. 1 My friends were the things that lived here before them, and wanted them…
Drawing #45: Reimu Hakurei
Last time, I said I might hold the portraits I made for the Touhou x Ojamajo Doremi game until the game came out, but today I felt like, nah, let’s just upload this one as usual. So here it is,…
lyricsposting #7
Everything is automatic now I can see a million faces Blasted on a screen I’ll never know And yet I may you see As long as I’m connected to them All the lines are superficial All emotion has been…
Enough Today
The evening sky was growing darker. The clouds hung low an ominous warning of the fast-approaching storm. Lightning cracked the sky and thunder roared. The rain pouring over the fresh graves as the…
But Only If You Go With Us
A Litany (Exodus 33:12-23) There be deserts we must face and cross. But only if you go with us. There be wilderness we must walk to the end. But only if you go with us. There be self-doubt and…
The Idea Behind a Poetry Collection
When you set out to write a poetry collection like The Beauty and the Beast, my newest one, you don’t always know what you’ll get. Read the stories, I told myself. Write a poem. Some of the stories…
Himmel unter Berlin: Uncovering Berlin’s Most Elusive Underground Art Experience
We live in a time of endless digital reproducibility and constant online availability. Because of this, Himmel unter Berlin offers something rare, an unrepeatable moment that exists only for those…
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