The Eclectacy Laboratory

This painting is part of a series the artist made depicting the "Loves of Jupiter." Ganymede is a beautiful youth, nude except for a flowing red cloth. He is being carried aloft by a massive eagle, who is Zeus in disguise. The painting captures a moment of gentle surrender and almost dreamy sensu...

Scene 1: The Children's Playground (Revised - Fifth Pass) The sandbox was a chaos of fine grit and flung plastic, exactly as any proper sandbox should be.
A couple of parents sat on a nearby bench, faces tipped to the sun, occasionally glancing up from their screens.
You'd think the squealing and the bits of sand clinging to every surface would get to them, but most seemed to have developed an impressive filter.
Seven-year-old Eleanor Vance, her knees already streaked with the day's first lay...

"'As anybody seen Bill 'Awkins?" "Now 'ow in the devil would I know?" "'E's taken my girl out walkin', An' I've got to tell 'im so, Gawd, bless, 'im! I've got to tell 'im so." "D'yer know what 'e's like, Bill 'Awkins?" "Now what in the devil would I care?" "'E's the livin', breathin' image of an organ-grinder's monkey, With a pound of grease in 'is 'air, Gawd, bless, 'im! An' a pound o' grease in 'is 'air." "An' s'pose you met Bill 'Awkins, Now what in the devil 'ud ye do?" "I'd open 'is chee...