Three Young Surrealist Women Holding in Their Arms the Skins of an Orchestra. 1936. Salvador Dali.
Prompt: Using the above image, write a microfiction (less than 500 words—yes, 501 is more than 500). In your piece, respond to the image in the above photograph. Your piece may take any form you like as long as it includes less than 500 words and relates, in some way, to the image. Have fun with it.
Deadline: August 31st, 2010—Midnight
Submit: MMR Online Submissions
Winner: First place will be published in Moon Milk Review.
Eckleburg was founded in 2010 as an online and print literary and arts journal. We take our title from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby and include the full archives of our predecessor Moon Milk Review. Our aesthetic is eclectic, literary mainstream to experimental. We appreciate fusion forms including magical realist, surrealist, meta- realist and realist works with an offbeat spin. We value character-focused storytelling and language and welcome both edge and mainstream with punch aesthetics. We like humor that explores the gritty realities of world and human experiences. Our issues include original content from both emerging and established writers, poets, artists and comedians such as authors, Roxane Gay, Rick Moody, Cris Mazza, Steve Almond, Stephen Dixon, poets, Moira Egan and David Wagoner and actor/comedian, Zach Galifianakis.
empty space
desert place
I remember this place
funny enough
I remember every detail of you
the flayed sound
lapping in your arms with care like dead skin
an unsuccessful song;
You go to ocean
is this a burial, for the orchestra?
so obvious
so true
just like Time
and all its hidden qualities
A beautiful woman
hides her face
by being
this is the end of an orchestra.
Three Young Surrealist Women Holding in Their Arms the Skins of an Orchestra.
last time, i joined a writing contests on the internet and i won a small price for writing a nice piece of writing ;:;