Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Stephen Fuller

WeOnlyHave ourselvesTo blame for thisAgain and againAn unsolved tragedyWe must hold ourselves to taskFor every death. Every childLike spent shells fallen to the groundSouls adrift to haunt those who do not act –Who do not act again and again and againI cannot look away again, again, againAgainAgainAgainAgainAgain, again, again, again, I cannot look away, notContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Stephen Fuller”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Devika Mathur

To see sanguine ropes of dirt and mollusk we walk under the skins of disgust, often choking Slumping, sliding under the caskets of Coffins Biting the threads of skulls, breathing the sands of hope We have a thumping noise, striking our iris and hands Shivers and cold Noises. Filling the brim of the Planet with liquidsContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Devika Mathur”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Robert Wertzler

I don’t know what color to wearFor the child of rape forced to acceptHer mother’s rapist as FatherFor that mother forced to put her daughterInto the hands of her rapistFor the grieving mother mourning a miscarried childAnd under investigation for possible homicideFor the child of incestLife-long symbol of a family’s shameFor the doctor who mustContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Robert Wertzler”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Georgianna Grentzenberg

Georgianna Grentzenberg, ‘The Wages of War’, Darker Objects Georgianna Grentzenberg has been active in the arts in the Philadelphia area for over 40 years. She attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts from 1978-1982. She has shown in many juried, and one-person exhibitions. Her primary work takes the form of fantastical visions and gardensContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Georgianna Grentzenberg”

Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s 5th Anniversary Creativity Prompt Challenge

In November of 2018, Kindra M. Austin and I took a leap of faith and launched Indie Blu(e) Publishing with the publication of our first anthology, We Will Not Be Silenced: The Lived Experience of Sexual Harassment and Sexual Assault Told Powerfully Through Poetry, Prose, Essay, and Art. We Will Not Be Silenced would not have been possible without theContinue reading “Indie Blu(e) Publishing’s 5th Anniversary Creativity Prompt Challenge”