“Wild” Featured Artist Kayla M. Haranda
Synkroniciti is pleased to introduce Houston poet Kayla M. Haranda. Kayla opens the “Wild” issue with Blue–, which explores the positive side of feeling blue. “Not a melancholy, shed a few …
Featured Artist: Dan Lloyd
Meet photographer and digital artist Dan Lloyd, who has three surreal and mesmerizing photo-manipulations of the Vermont wilderness in Synkroniciti’s new issue! Bare Ruin’d Choirs recalls the grandeur of Europe’s …
Quote for Today: A. S. Byatt
The black thing in her brain and the dark water on the page were the same thing, a form of knowledge. This is how myths work. They are things, creatures, …
The Essence of Green: Thoughts and Pictures
Imagine for a moment a world without the color green. What a sad place! What does green mean to us? The modern English word green is derived from the same …
Animal Images, Inspiration from Nature, Part Two
Human beings have strong identifications, both positive and negative, with animals. What do our natural responses tell us about ourselves? What follows is a gallery of art selected from the output of three …
Quote for Today: Mary Roach
With the rise of classical Greece, the soul debate evolved into the more familiar heart-versus-brain, the liver having been demoted to an accessory role. We are fortunate that this is …
Quote for Today: Jane Glazer
Final Disposition Others divided closets full of mother’s things. From the earth, I took her poppies. I wanted those fandango folds of red and black chiffon she doted on, loving …
Redecorating an Aging Villain: Thoughts on Project Vader
Darth Vader has been the personification of evil for several generations. Is the archetype he represents aging gracefully or not? My first movie theater experience was The Empire Strikes Back …
Quote for Today: Stephen King
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions. ―Stephen King, Desperation
Quote for Today: William H. Gass
The word itself has another color. It’s not a word with any resonance, although the e was once pronounced. There is only the bump now between b and l, the …