Dilation Exercise 34
Below you’ll find Alan M. Clark’s weekly Dilation Exercise. Please look at the picture, read the caption, above and below the image, and allow your imagination to go to work on it. If the artwork inspires a story, please say something about it in a comment. Need a further explanation? Go to Imagination Workout—The Dilation Exercises.
As a child, Alister could believe in everything, even the fantastical, but to get along in the adult world, he imprison those beliefs.
When he became old, he desperately tried to repair the damage he’d done.
Artwork: “Common Beasts” copyright © 2009 Alan M. Clark.
Interior illustration for “Narrative of a Beast’s Life” by Cat Rambo, Realms of Fantasy Magazine.
Captions are original to this post and have nothing to do with the literary project with which the artwork first appeared.
—Alan M. Clark
Eugene, Oregon
