Mr. Punkincheeks, Devourer of Souls (and Snickers)
Welcome to issue One Hundred Two. The pieces in these pages share a contemplative tone, reflecting on the past, evaluating the present, and speculating on what is yet to come. Gavin Broom returns with a lovely and subtle seaside story, and C. M. Donahue imagines a lunar adventurer’s final moments in free verse. Heather Santo‘s flash fiction explains how science and art collaborate in the realm of the beyond. Askold Skalsky‘s sonnet explores the distance between desire and reality, and Emily Williamson‘s blank verse poem turns a landfill into a time machine. And if it’s straight-up horror you’re looking for, Predra6 has you covered with this month’s cover art.
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Predra6
“Untitled” (chair), by Predra6.
PREDRA6 is a digital photographer with work available under Creative Commons licenses at Pixabay: pixabay.com/en/users/Predra6_Photos-2182361/
Adika Bell
“Untitled,” by Adika Bell
ADIKA BELL is a self taught visual artist from Tacoma, Washington. The majority of his focus is portraiture, but he has a wide range of styles that vary from still life to abstract expressionism. Adika has a poetic use of bright and contrasting colors that have a way of telling a story by themselves in his artwork. Inspired by the lack of exposure and African American representation in the art world growing up, Adika desires to paint the beauty of blackness in addition to his heroes and legends as well as his experiences. The African American image is something that he embraces and celebrates, capturing often-overlooked elements of black people in an attempt to counter-balance how we view ourselves in art and as artists in America and worldwide.
Find his work at adikabellart.com.
