Imagine that the night sky is a blanket made of deep velvet that you could wrap around you. A bird with dark wings flies by. Qiuetly. Softly. Barely makes a sound. Sound of a whisper. Just a flicker of motion in the dimly lit sky. Reflected back in the still water below. The girl thinks…
Category: Stories
bed under starry skies
She had a dream of being in a house. She had a dream of being surrounded by loving, welcoming, smiling people. These were not the same dreams. She felt safe again. She wasn’t sure if she should, but in the dream, she realized both in the house and at the place with many people, that…
The Real World- Theater Edition: An Interview With Star Finch
Barbara Jwanouskos brings you the author of H.O.M.E. I heard the title first, H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually) and I thought, “okay, now, that’s gonna be good…” I see it and it’s this meld of worlds, ideas, curiosities, passions, and most importantly, issues I care about, so I was immediately drawn in. It’s speaking to…
about choosing music
they listened close the songs were the words they were waiting for they were songs that comforted they were songs that moved them to action and they thought ah, now i see i know what to do and i feel confident in my forward direction such is the power of song
the seer, part 2
The vision that followed didn’t make any sense. A certain part of the forest had trees standing as if in a line. It was incredible how lined up they were, actually, as if someone had grown them from seed. In this part of the forest, he saw the girl running. But she was just a…
the seer
The man had been in the village for quite a while. For him, days felt like years in the village. Our in the forest, years felt like days. He had seen many things that gave him hope at finding the answers he seeked. There was the old man with book with mysterious origins. There were…
The Real World – Theater Edition: Interview With Alex Spieth
Barbara Jwanouskos starts your Pride with an interview with Alex Spieth! I met Alex Spieth at Carnegie Mellon. She was one of the BFA Actors in her senior year and was in a collaborative class in TV Writing/Acting/Directing. Albeit, the class, at the time, was mainly focused on the classic sit-com three camera format, but…
possibility
As she opened her eyes… Dawn again. Sun rising once more. Clouds scattered into the far forever distance as if you could stretch across time and back again. In the moment it takes to breath in deeply, then she realized all was right. Countless possibilities deep into the horizon and as you looked to the…
down in the canyon below
Starlight into a rocky canyon. The girl was watching something. Watching as something moved down below. Every so often if you focused, you could see a flicker of movement from down below, down by the thickly rooted trees. These ones that had canopies like great expansive clouds, enveloping the base of this deep cut into…
Dandelion seeds
Dandelion seeds floating in the wind Swirl off and be carried away Until they find their place in a tuft of grass This, on top of a dune of sand And sand that stretches until it meets the first of a million waves Waves that travel the globe That circle continuously Endlessly And in the…
The Dynamics of Groove 