Rust
I’m not a New Year’s resolution kind of guy, and I probably won’t get you anything on your birthday. If I see something you should have, I’ll probably get it for you, happy unbirthday! Similarly, I decided that this year I’d participate in online art challenges. ArtOrder is arguably the grand pooh-bah of online challenges for fantasy artists. Usually, ArtOrder gives out an actual or simulated assignment. To kick off the new year they gave us nothing but a line of poetry. This left a lot of creative room.
I wrote a short story about a future divided into two classes, and what happens when two exiles stumble upon a secret even deeper than the technology they seek. Here is the line, and my submission.
“A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust”
~ James Stephens
Irish poet and storyteller, 1882-1950
