WORDS & IMAGES
Digital art. Short stories.
While exploring my artistic side, I experimented with digital art. Starting with a simple image and manipulation on my iPhone. Then I added a few words of explanation, which crept into a story as I did more of them
This started to distract from the simple Art images that had no story, so I’ve split out the digital art into this site.
There is no great logic to this, the stories are for the most part stand alone.
The Art is on dbart.quotion.co
I’m not on social media.
0264 - 2025.12 Coincidence
Do you believe in coincidences? I do. My name is Manatie. I go by my surname only these days, my parents thought it amusing to name me Hugh. Old family name they said, but I got tired of the joke. Ho
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0264 - 2025.12 Coincidence
Do you believe in coincidences? I do. My name is Manatie. I go by my surname only these days, my parents thought it amusing to name me Hugh. Old family name they said, but I got tired of the joke. Ho
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David Bentley
0264 - 2025.12 Coincidence
Do you believe in coincidences? I do. My name is Manatie. I go by my surname only these days, my parents thought it amusing to name me Hugh. Old family name they said, but I got tired of the joke. Ho
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David Bentley
0286 - 2025.04 My trip to the Dioxide Falls of Sedené
3Sedené is an unusual planet. How to describe it? I’ll paraphrase from the brochure. Smaller than Earth, but somehow denser with about 120% of the gravity. Its star, a white dwarf, has consumed all i
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David Bentley
0290 2026.05 - Eighteen
I have some news. I will let you decide whether it is good or bad, which bucket to put it in. First, I am alive. The spots and dots did go away, but I felt truly awful while my immune system and broa
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David Bentley
mini-sci-fi
0289 2026.05 Cube World
A story about wealth and poverty and why the gap should be reduced. In the late 20th Century, people reached new heights, literally. Better health, better nutrition Taller people. Simple logic. Five
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David Bentley
digital
0213 - 2025.07 Bleeding Heart
What do you see here? A tropical underwater getaway, a pillar of coral (so don’t forget the snorkel and fins), autumnal colour, an abstract painter whose style you feel you should recognise, but can’
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David Bentley
digital
0190 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 2
After the initial frisson of anticipation, the dark line seducing us into believing there was a structure, a city, an industry, something, we took a more rational approach. We slowed, gained altitude
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David Bentley
digital
0189 - 2025.06 Alien Landscape 1
On an alien, unexplored planet with unfamiliar skies signs of life may be difficult to find. Scanning from orbit does not reveal everything, the ISS told us that, when the first astronauts looked dow
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David Bentley
digital
0248 - 2025.09 Desert Dreaming
What, I thought, am I looking at? Am I dreaming? Is this real? The image in front of me is desert like, but not quite right. What do I remember? A camel comes to mind - the desert is not a place for
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David Bentley
digital
0255 - 2025.10 Parliament
The Imperium Presidency came with great honour, as well as great responsibility. That is self evident, I hear your unsaid thoughts, but as your tour guide and historian, I suggest there is more than
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