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.
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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David Bentley
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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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David Bentley
digital
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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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
digital
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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David Bentley
Medium
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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David Bentley
Medium
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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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
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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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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