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
digital
0251 - 2025.09 The Wind
When he was eleven, Simon started writing and drawing in a notebook. Not regularly. Just every now and then when the wind blew strongly enough to get his attention. So many questions, so few answers
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David Bentley
digital
0215 - 2025.07 Surprise!
In the Southern Hemisphere July is winter. On the east coast it is often cool and dry, westerly adiabatic winds losing their moisture rather than bringing cold rain. Blue sky days. In the southern h
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David Bentley
digital
0194 - 2025.06 Gomper
“We’re approaching a binary star system, at her satanic majesty’s request, 2000 light years from home. Time to check the readouts. Whoa there, Gomper! They should look like a rainbow, not a distant c
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David Bentley
digital
0205 - 2025.06 Pixie Blue
The seed cones lay in the winter sun, slowly bleaching from brown to white. The pixies came out at night, with their little paint brushes and added a touch of pale blue, their favourite colour; and t
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David Bentley
digital
0245 - 2025.09 Spiders from Mars (Seventeen)
Do you ever have one of those days when things, well, don’t turn out as planned? The sort where you wake up twenty minutes late and for the rest of the day you play catch-up? Where the traffic lights
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David Bentley
digital
0254 - 2025.10 Signs of Life
Space is unusual. Full of surprises. Mostly in the imagination of science fiction writers that made anything possible. It can also be scary. Solar storms, dust clouds, exploding stars. Let me tell y
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David Bentley
digital
0203 - 2025.06 Ionian Shadow
Io is intensely volcanically active due to tidal forces from Jupiter and its neighboring moons, with Sulfur and Sulfur dioxide abundant on the surface. Lightly coloured from orbit, on the surface it’
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David Bentley
digital
0263 - 2025.11 Green planet 2
Having settled after the surprise, we now needed to deal with the reality. Get closer, take what measurements we could, maybe some manual star sightings I suggested but the navigator just laughed at
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David Bentley
digital
0243 - 2025.09 Green Planet 1
I knew from a young age that I would probably end up in space. My earliest memories are playing rocket games with my father, and a house full of space books. Plus I was interested. Dinosaurs and supe
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