Fictive Dream, the online fiction magazine focusing on short stories, is hosting an event this week called Editors’ Week. I illustrated the stories and I’ll be posting the images here to show you. Here’s my suggestion: take a look at the illustration and then check out the story it accompanies at Fictive Dream to take in the whole experience.
I’ll show you the illustration and give you the link to the magazine each day. Today’s story is called The Lady of the House, by Jen Michalski. Look here to read it.
Here is the image with the banner:
and here it is on its own.
Claudia McGill and Her Art World 
The artwork for today’s story, The Lady of the House, the first of Editors’ Week, compliments the story beautifully. It’s a dreamy sort of story and so is the illustration. I particularly like the way in which it picks up on the protagonist’s scarf which is purple and, without giving away the plot, the two spheres are perfect. Thank you, Claudia. I think your followers are in for a treat for the rest of the week.
Thank you, Laura. I like the water motif in this story, and to me the illustration also captures that aspect. I liked this story a lot – it has an otherworldly feel to it with an edge, I think.
I’m so pleased you enjoyed this first story. I hope you find more to enjoy during the week.
I enjoyed the story a lot and think your illustration perfectly captures that dreamlike, misty quality it has, and I like the two spherical shapes which are like two of the characters, contained and together and very much alike.
The theme again of the mystery of the layers in all our lives and how they can shift and merge.
So pleased you enjoyed the story, and the illustration of course! Thank you for reading, Laura.
I definitely liked the mysterious atmosphere and saw that reflected in the “foggy” quality of your painting. I thought the story was almost a depiction of a haunting but being haunted by (trying not to spoiler it for other readers) an aspect of the past.
I felt like it was about who we are and how easily that can be altered or amended; or, how easily the old self can be repressed and then return; there are so many ways to think of this story, I really enjoyed that.
I really liked that idea too.
It would be nice to find that young woman again. I like the way your illustration evokes two peas in a pod. (K)
Sometimes I wonder if I dig around in my head or wherever I keep my various selves, what I would find them doing and what they might be wanting from life today…
I find they make brief appearances sometimes when I least expect it…but they never stick around.
The illustration represents the plot well. There’s a dream-like creep factor to the story that lessens towards the end.
Thank you. I agree, it’s sort of verging on a hallucination, isn’t it?
You’re welcome. Yes!