Art + Fiction from author Rick Wayne
"Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on." "She did not reassure him. She did not tell him he was like everyone else. She said, "I'll never know anyone like you again, Shev." All the same, a rejection …
Continue reading Selections from Ursula K. Le Guin’s “The Dispossessed”
I sat on a chair in the hospital and swung my feet back and forth. My dad was talking to the police in the other room. Mr. Étranger walked over and sat next to me. He had a cane. He looked a little better. But not much. He sat down and we waited together. “Thank …
Mr. Étranger watched her fly into the night. He turned to me. “Do you know her?” I sniffed. My cheeks were red from running in the cold. I could hear a semi pass on the big freeway down by McDonald’s. “We were lovers. For a while. You’d better come in. There won’t be much time.” …
When Mr. A. Tranjay and I got back, my dad was waiting for us. He was mad I had unlocked the door. And he had found the book, the one Mr. A. Tranjay gave me. He had found it under the mattress with my translation. I wrote it in pencil on the kind of lined …
Continue reading (Fiction) Salamongue Greymouth, Waspkeeper of Hell
Dad was on big important phone calls all the next day, with bankers I think. Mr. A. Tranjay had said at dinner that his work would be done soon, and that was quicker than anyone expected. I didn’t want him to go. I liked having him there. I didn’t know where he loved but I …
“Is the stag waiting for something?” I stood in the doorway of the old garage. I was supposed to go to a hospital in a couple days. Or was it tomorrow? I could never keep track. But I knew I was almost out of time. I needed help. Maybe I had to break my promise. …
In addition to keeping a file of art and ideas for each of my fiction projects, I also keep two general files, Characters and Settings, which I dip into as needed for ideas and inspiration. Here are 30 recent additions to my Settings file. Includes art and photography by Danlil Kozlovsky, Edward Delandre, Igor Kulkov, …
