Louis Reyna was born in Los Angeles in 1960 and moved to Kansas City in 1993. His work has appeared in The Kansas City Star: Poets Corner, PALABRA, Sudden Fiction Latino (W.W. Norton Press), The Rockhurst Review, and the upcoming editions of Clare Literary Journal and Workers Writes.
This story is from a collection titled For Rent: Two Bedroom Stucco, The Adventures of a Child of The Great Society Growing Up in Los Angleles. Another story from the collection, The Sixth House will be featured in the upcoming edition of PALABRA.
Diana Y. Paul loves printmaking, because she feels that there are no mistakes in printmaking. One of her favorite prints is her first copper etching -an image of weeds- that had been dipped into rather gritty, sludge-like acid. When she pulled the copper out of the acid, there was a little pea-sized blob on the copper. She was upset that her etching had been ruined. But when she rinsed off the acid, the blob had washed away, revealing a beautiful, perfectly etched miniature bug -wings and all- delicately hanging upside down on a tiny branch. That experience epitomizes printmaking for her: both in art and in life, the unexpected can be a beautiful surprise. Her focus is on a Japanese aesthetic combined with a mixed media approach to the image, usually an organic one, with an element of surprise or the unexpected thrown in. Please visit www.unhealedwound.com to view more of her art.