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TODAY'S FEATURED POST

Annie Without Crow

Wylie Beckert

  I always look forward to the weird and wonderful illustrations that accompany the fiction over on Tor.com — so I was thrilled when AD Irene Gallo reached out to me about illustrating their latest, a short story by Michael Swanwick called "Annie Without Crow." It's a really fun, unconventionally apocalyptic story in which [SPOILER ALERT] a vengeful goddess dooms humanity to extinction with an edict to womankind: "Thou shalt neither wed nor bed any…

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EVERYDAY ORIGINAL

Springtime Honey Bee – Layered Resin Painting

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Pouring One Out for the Rejected

Greg Ruth

April 16, 2021 - You work in this thing long enough and your rejects pile gets pretty big. Mine is HUGE. In fact I had no idea how big it was until I started culling pieces for this article, and let me tell you, for as much lost work as you see here today, there's at least four times this much not seen. A lot of this is die to my own personal weird way of working which sends me to final fully fleshed out pieces WAY early. And while oftentimes this does what such a leap tends to wish for- it sells the notion by showing the idea not telling. But sometimes it Ain;t enough and the image goes down. IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE art all ultimately junked due to a number of…

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