Tag: Acting

The image is curtesy the Bing image generator with the following prompt: Paint a portrait of a forceful and formidable female figure with platinum blonde hair, exaggerated features, including large red lips. She is dressed in 1950’s glamorous fashion. The painting should have bold and expressive brushstrokes, fragmented and distorted features, and a vibrant color palette.

“Blonde Noir” * Short Story * DC Diamondopolous

aromatica poetica December 27, 2023

Kit Covington sat on the sofa in her Pacific Palisades mansion with a cigarette lodged in the side of her mouth. A cloud of smoke floated around her head. She adjusted the oxygen tube in her nose, then brushed ash from her dog Muffin’s champagne-colored curls. The miniature poodle dozing in Kit’s lap startled when the camera crew from The Great Morning Talk Show banged equipment into Kit’s antique furniture. “Watch it! You scratch anything, you’ll pay for the restoration.” …

Iphigenia and her brother Orestes stealing the effigy of Artemis from the Taurians, framed relief photograph from the Louvre’s Salle de Diane.

“Restoring the Effigy” * Fiction * M. Leona Godin

aromatica poetica August 15, 2019

“See you tonight Sweetheart,” Effie said to her daughter. “Anything special you want for dinner?” “Don’t worry about me. I’ll just graze. See you later mom,” returned Artemis, with the air of someone looking forward to solitude. She’d been entrenched in the couch since quitting Yale’s MFA in acting almost a month ago. Effie was worried–she was a mother and a Greek one at that–but every discussion she tried to have with her daughter ended in an argument followed by …