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.
0315 - 2026.09 Alien Landscape (Crystal mountain)
I didn’t make the scuppers, but it was a close thing. The pilot was threatened with the scuppers too, but we had only followed orders and taken evasive action. The damage to our craft was dents, not
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0315 - 2026.09 Alien Landscape (Crystal mountain)
I didn’t make the scuppers, but it was a close thing. The pilot was threatened with the scuppers too, but we had only followed orders and taken evasive action. The damage to our craft was dents, not
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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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0314 - 2026.09 Life on
At the Department of Unlikely Coincidences some strange things come across our desks, well, our computer screens, we don’t use desks any longer. Some things are readily explained - I’ve recorded some
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0244 - 2025.09 The crystal caves
Life on Mars was always a bit of an oxymoron. Primitive. Ancient. Not very H.G. Wells at all. So the early settlers became miners for more than one reason. The hollow magma tubes became underground s
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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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0257 - 2025.10 Moontrap
After my holidays, dragging family around many of the architectural wonders of the modern world, I’m an engineer after all, my next assignment is literally off the planet. I’m an infrastructure recyc
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0302 2026.07 In the night sky
Near where we lived was a hill. On the side of the hill facing the sun was a large exposed boulder, big enough in every direction to be a feature. Big enough and flat enough to lie down on when the m
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0298 2025.06 Alien Landscape 3
After the accident, they still let me fly. They being the Head of Exploration. But with a warning, don’t even do that again or I’ll be cleaning out the scuppers for the rest of the voyage. Let me te
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0286 - 2025.04 My trip to the Dioxide Falls of Sedené
Sedené 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 it
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