Quote for Today: Margery Williams
“It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or …
Quote for Today: Ray Bradbury
My grandfather ran off the V-2 rocket film a dozen times and then hoped that some day our cities would open up and let the green and the land …
Featured Artist: Ron Pullins
Welcome Ron Pullins. You might remember that Synkronciti nominated Ron’s story “Clocks::Corn” from our “Hidden” issue for Best of the Net last year. He’s back in our new issue with …
Quote for Today: Ursula K. LeGuin
“On the planet O there has not been a war for five thousand years,” she read, “and on Gethen there has never been a war.” She stopped reading, to …
Picturing Woman: Paintings of Jules Breton
Many painters have taken their inspiration from the female form, but Jules Breton is unique. Trained in the European classical tradition, or “grand style” as he called it, he returned …
Quote for Today: Toko-pa Turner
There is really only one way to restore a world that is dying and in disrepair: to make beauty where ugliness has set in. By beauty, I don’t mean a …
Quote for Today: Eddie Lenihan
For no matter whether the fairies are seen metaphorically or as real beings inhabiting their own real world, a study of them shows us that those who came before …
Quote for Today: Norton Juster
…if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s …
Quote for Today: John Fowles
Time in itself, absolutely, does not exist; it is always relative to some observer or some object. Without a clock I say ‘I do not know the time’. Without matter …