Stories tagged “artists”

  • Vince's Big Break

    The only difference between Vince and the rest of the people auditioning for the lead singer of Black Shark was that Vince was a nine-year-old boy. The lights were hot and bright on the wooden stage, as the curtains behind him fluttered for a few secon...

  • The White Chair

    The place they hauled me off to was more of an asylum than a prison. I had to share a room with another ‘artist’, but we had a curtain to draw between us. Every day the workers would bring us meals and once a day we would be summoned one at...

  • Painting in Red

    The torture went on and on, day after agonizing day. I thought I would go crazy. I thought I would break. I thought…I thought I thought I thought… Then one day I had it. The key to my final, greatest victory. A penny. It must have fallen from a gua...

  • Finir

    These, and many others, are of the resistance: Violet. Flowers, before they destroyed them. Indigo. The night sky, before they covered it. Blue. Birds, before they killed them. Green. The sea, before they polluted it. Yellow. The sun, before they darke...

  • There is a God...and I can prove it! - Part 3

    Comedians for making us laugh. Actors for making us cry. Artists for making us dumb with awe. Musicians for making us dance. Poets for making us think. Wayne Gretsky. For showing us that even though he’s the Great One at 99, he always makes us strive...