When I should be writing but my mind demands to wander, Etsy.com is my go-to website; it conquers my lust for window shopping while taking me into some crazy new worlds.
MYSTERY
MYSTERY
Bring on the mutilations by torchlight. I love the wooden doll parts because I have a thousand and one ideas for a scandalizing mystery just by looking at them.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=39090669
NATURE
Visions of the Earth's future crust. Strange insects. Doe-eyed primates in the elms. Cracked robin's eggs scattered around black-buckled feet.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=11542706
BEAUTY
Black and white films are lit so beautifully, particularly those of Frank Capra's era; he coaxed the shine from an actress's eyes like honey on the moon. There is always a kiss so urgent it contorts the couple's mouths with pain, and there's a mishap on the train, and somebody loses their temper inappropriately.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=15362398
FANTASTIC PLANETS
The pressure gauge spilling its brains.
I used to think I hated science fiction. Backwards languages, teleportation devices, ray guns. But the whole time I had been feeding on apocalyptic worlds. I dig a robot now and again. Not a cyborg, not that; a good old-fashioned tin man. I love the cogs and curls in this blue lady's skull, and I'd meet her on the street.
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=32792730
