Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Allister Nelson

You stab me with a misplaced comma’s edge,expect me to bleed ink, but I blossom goldleaf, like pages of a holy tome, and yourlines of prose crackle in my burning gale.I am more word than woman, you seeand I am truth, your haunting just ghostof all those who said no, who pushed medown stairs ofContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Allister Nelson”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Zelda Reville

Our biggest tragedywas thatour love,no matterhow muchthere was of itcould neverdraw you outfrom a fatal attractionto the depthsof your ferocious hungerfor love itself. Zelda Reville, Excerpt from ‘Back to Black: Tribute to Amy Winehouse,’ Darker Objects “When I was approached by Christine for Darker Objects, I’d not been writing poetry for some time. While readingContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Zelda Reville”

Now Available from Indie Blu(e) Publishing: Darker Objects by Christine E. Ray and Friends

“In this ambitious multi-genre, multi-vocal project, Christine E. Ray and Friends weave together poems, essays and visual artwork that speak of grief, rage, memories, hauntings and dreamscapes. These works, as both singular poems and extended collaborations, tell compelling stories, almost like sharing secrets, all with deftly drawn imagery. Each piece can stand on its own,Continue reading “Now Available from Indie Blu(e) Publishing: Darker Objects by Christine E. Ray and Friends”

Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Jack Neece

Don’t tell me about choice being wrong. I am a choice no one made. A ball dropped that no one caught. I am witness to what happens when no one cares. Stand behind your pulpit and up on your goddamn soap box and tell a soldier that was in the trench of state childcare whatContinue reading “Meet Darker Objects Collaborator Jack Neece”

Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge

In honor of the publication of her third collection of poetry and prose, Darker Objects, Christine E. Ray is hosting a Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge for the month of October. Your prompt responses will be published on her blog, Brave & Reckless. She welcomes submissions of original poetry, prose, flash fiction, creative nonfiction, essay, and high-res art.Continue reading “Darker Objects Creativity Prompt Challenge”