Initiate
"This is the hour I like," she said, nodding towards the weak sun. It hovered beneath the dark ceiling of the sky, drooping towards the ragged edge of the sea. She lifted the thin loop from the bottle in her hand and blew a fluttering stream of gleaming bubbles. "Just before sunset."
"The Poet called it the magic hour," he said, watching the wind play with the soapy bubbles. "But the phrase wasn't his."
"It's movie talk. That hour when they don't need all those filters, when the light is just perfect."
"Just?"
She smiled at him. "Well, as perfect as light can be."
He leaned against the worn brick of the chimney which jutted out of the roof of the building. "Not white and not black."
She dipped the wand and blew another stream of bubbles. "Just a hint of color," she added as the wind whipped through her drifting bubbles and tugged at the ends of her hair. "Russets and magentas and indigos. Their names sound deep and magical. Like you must be an initiate in the mysteries to be able to create them on a palette."
He closed his eyes. "The kind of colors you can see when you close your eyes."
"Exactly. You can't imagine yellow. But you can dream of gold and amber."
He tried to think of yellow, but, as he listened to her breath give life to more bubbles, all he could frame in his mind was the color and shape of her lips.
writing
This is a reasonably comprehensive list of my published work, both virtual and physical.
THE MISFIT LIBRARY
I am Nine of Thirteen, one of the members of the Misfit Library, a writing collective which puts out a quarterly journal of our respective work. We are scattered across the globe and determined to change the face of the planet one story at a time. The link above will take you to Misfit Central where you can acquire copies of the journal as well as read exclusive online material.
SYMBOLIC
I wrote a column for OPi8.com's Transmit blogs: journals of the new dark underground. SYMBOLIC tracked the novel I was working on, referencing the process and the research materials which mad up the backbone of the work. In addition, SYMBOLIC busied itself with ruminations and considerations on the nature of language and communication. And a wee bit of mythology. The first 100 entries of SYMBOLIC can be found here on this site as well as at OPi8.com.
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
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