Jun
Tension & Obsession in Art
“One thing investigators of the psychology of creative people have demonstrated beyond doubt in the past thirty years is that creativity has something to do …
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Gallery
We are voyeurs moving like spirits through a gallery of images. If we never saw our image in a mirror, a pool of water, or …
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Nightlife
The dead are drugged, dragged outside, and left unburied. The murderers have gone behind the trees for a smoke. The air is a choking haze. …
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Falling
She was falling to her death like the earth into the sun, slowly and relative to nothing that mattered anymore. So she accepted the stranger’s …
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Therapy
For three years he remained her patient, coming to her plush office, lying on her leather couch, and exposing his phobias – fears of acquiring …
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Fear
Life’s a high-wire act, said a man seated across the table from me. His eyes were mesmerizing, intense like a bird of prey. The trick, …
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Zoo
An hour before the gates opened to the public the human couple were locked in their cage between the leopards and the orangutans. Their meals …
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Heroics
From pop-up books to electric trains to video games, he dismantled all his toys. Within days after flirting with the notion of play, he divided …
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Guilt
He raped his wife then kissed her crying face before collapsing into sleep. Later that night he was handcuffed and shoved into the caged backseat …
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Publicity
The interviewer had charmed her with his smile. After being invited into her home, offered coffee, and allowed to have a crew of technicians run …
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