—My title for this poetic powerhouse? “The Chrysanthemum Blade: A Love Etched in Silence”
Winner of the Tears Made of Steel Award, with a prize of a single falling petal that echoes forever.
“She held his broken past like a teacup in the storm,” said one weeping reviewer.
Focus group said: “Samurai sadness is the new black.”
Even Craig cried. CRAIG.
Signed,
Chuck “Brandstorm” McSnazzle
“We brand the unbearable.™”
Tired samurai leaning on his sword as a geisha comforts him in a rough charcoal sketch by Andrea Lie :: Jacek Szynkarczuk :: Jeremy Mann :: Agnes Cecile :: vibrant deep colors black and white