New Beauty in the New Year:
An Introduction
After collecting and publishing our first collection of short stories, poetry, and art, T and I were amazed at the life-giving properties of pushing ourselves to write a story-a-day. But after laughing, joking, and drinking over the success of our first experiment, we were also struck by a sobering realization -- our stories largely were focused on ourselves. It may be a surprising to some why two egotists would be troubled by the egotism of their own artistic work, but because so much of the happiness that we found in writing arose out of people we met, remembered, or shared our work with, we decided that the task of our second challenge ought to be to usher the beautiful people who touch our lives everyday into the magical land of prose and poetry. Some of these people may be about our family and friends, for our ever-present desire to affirm the goodness and beauty in life is so closely tied to those who inspire it in us everyday. But more importantly, we hope to use the task of writing as a means to meet new beautiful people, to throw our social nets widely and find beauty in all of its variations and incarnations. So come and share your beauty with us and give us the chance to appreciate it.
The Authors
1 January 2009
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