A 4500-word mini collection of (informal) essays on commercialism’s de-spiritualizing effects on society, by author/artist/non-conformist, Jess C Scott. GENRE: Essays | 4,500 words ***** NOTE FROM JESS: This...
In Paris in 1911, it's raining every day and the Mona Lisa has been stolen. We already know who did it, but suspicion falls on one Pablo Picasso, artist - or maybe it's his pal, Apollinaire, who has problems...
When a city commissioned a famous artist to create a masterpiece for their new refurbished downtown, they only forgot one thing: to tell him when to stop. Now his greatest work is threatening to take over everywhere....
The Shirtpocket MFA is for anyone who cares about writing. What is "Fine Art?" Who is a poet, and who is a storyteller? What is the writer's responsibility in publishing? This brief essay will remain relevant...
"The UK's Stephen King." www.pissedoffgeek.com Charles is back with a forth instalment of Twisted Imaginings, this time featuring three tales of twisted terror. In "Voices and Shadows" we witness the dark side...
Saint Luke, The Patron Saint of the Worshipful Company of Painters, otherwise Painter-Stainers, by Walter Hayward Pitman. A brief volume of biography of Saint Luke the Apostle concentrating on the tradition...
Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856 – 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater,...
Note: reformatted with table of contents     This book is modeled on a book of Chinese and Japanese poems that I gave to a friend on the west coast. It was a very small book with a yellow cover, stapled...
Note: 2nd Edition, added one long story.     "The line across her eyebrows and tapering along her jaw was right. He'd left out a lot, but that didn't matter. If what was there was true enough, you knew...
Joe Burke is handsome, graying at the temples. Divorce has left him wondering what's next. He throws a few belongings in his truck and leaves town to find out, a search that takes him from Maine to Hawaii. A...
A story of first love in Woodstock, N.Y. during the early sixties. Patrick, an army brat, and Willow, a musician from an academic family, drift separately into town and are attracted to each other in spite of...
Note: poems added     See, feel, understand---each poem is a journey for the writer. The interesting stranger is you, yourself, and there is time for love or what you will.
A woman devolves into madness on a road trip to Las Vegas after an auto accident and several failed suicide attempts. The title comes from Stevie Smith's poem which features the lines, "I was much too far out...