It is a happy month indeed. Just out, my science fiction piece, The great unconformity in Black Cat Weekly. THE GREAT UNCONFORMITY By E.E. King The great unconformity is a real event .It is the discovery of billions of years of history that were not recorded in the geological time. Newer layers of rock sit on very old layers with no middle sediments in between. Think of an Oreo with no filling! It was first discovered by John Newberry in New Mexico, in 1857–1858.ut since has been found to appear all over the world. There are various theories, including an ice age where all the history melted, but nothing that seems to really fit the bill or fill the rock. I took H.G. Wells Time Machine as an inspiration. I hope you like it. Also, I am pleased to be able to share the award winning poem, inspired by my painting, Siblings under the Skin this painting, as I have previously mentioned was published in the Rattle, as their Ekphrastic , Art Inspiring Poetry,Challenge. received about 500 poems. I picked the winning one and it wasn’t easy. (If you wrote a poem for my particular painting and didn’t win just now that it was not because your poem wasn’t amazing all the poems. I read were fabulous, Even one that wasn’t submitted to me, but was later sent by a friend -so shout out to Crystal Sidell for sending me a wonderful, thoughtful piece.The winning poem was written byMatt JosephA Skeleton Walks into an Art Classwhere it sees the living,trying their best to paint a skeletondoing what skeletons do, which is lots of hanging aroundon metal stands, their eye socketsbony cups filled with silence, or doing what skeletons don’t do, normally,like cuddling, or giving birth,given the lack of a wombor a lover, though it may have had bothwhen it was wrapped in flesh and sinew,filled with organs and desires and doubts, but in the painting, it’s just bones on a bed,femurs wishboned apart, pelvis spitting a baby outonto the sheets, which makes the visiting skeleton think, hell, anything’s possible, so let me invite a buddy,and we’ll paint the living,doing what they do,which looks a lot like trying hard to forgetthey’re a flash of dry lightning, or a strand of hairstuck in amber, or maybe a lonely particlein a million-mile dust storm, but also, most importantly,their life is a warm, cozy duvetmomentarily draped around a skeletonthat’s biding its time, impatientlywaiting for the big reveal. ![]() And talking of geology… or at least nature, let me recommend the app Inaturalist. It’s been around now for quite a few years, and people have tagged plants from all over the world. It started out with many wrong identifications but now it’s really good. It’s free! Also let me recommend Merlin Bird app put out by Cornell University. It too is free, and not only can you identify birds by photos, you can identify them by sound, so if you hear a bird singing and want to know what it is, Merlin will tell you. Unless you record your neighbor singing bad opera, in which case you will probably confuse the app and it will crash.What if a Mockingbird learn to sing opera? Would it confuse the app or would the app say, “This is a mockingbird mocking your neighbor?”Also, in audio production now are two of my books. Gods and Monsters, being read by the wonderful Missy Davis. I got a lot of auditions for this book and it was really difficult. I got one request for an audition, but when the actor read the book said there were words that she would not feel comfortable pronouncing. Were these words like, Kishelemukong, the great spirit of the Lenape? I don’t think so. It was probably something more an anatomical nature, even though any readers of my writing will know that I’m not into erotica or romance.Still, sex happens and in a book that deals both with vampires and AIDs things are bound to get bloody. Also in production is Dirk Quigby’s Guide to the Afterlife in Spanish, or La guía de Dirk Quigby al más alláor!The The Guide is already available in English audio the book- long, and the short story. ![]() Here are some of my most recent paintings. They are mostly of friends, musicians or musicians who are friends. https://open.spotify.com/embed/episode/4cxxxhZXba0hTkYm3YLJbf?theme=0 Season II of E.E. King Reads, is me reading short stories. https://open.spotify.com/embed/show/5RtKwRt44Dhwwya0ysS6Rf?theme=0Here is the quote. I think is very good advice and I strive to remember it daily although I don’t always succeed “If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change…I wish I’d known that happiness is seeing the water lily you’ve been watching for a week blossom, even if the bloom lasts only a day.”Best to all of you, Evie PS I am reading Entangled Life. It’s an absolutely fascinating book on mycological connections. |