Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram Untouchable. Practically unreal. He lives everyone’s dream and gets paid to be beautiful. He has teams of people there to make him look perfect. How could someone not want that? The lights, cameras, fans, money. You wonder if he has time for meaningful relationships. He looks like…
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Day 26: Dark
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram They must have forgotten to tell you about me. Your gods who wakes you up in the morning; the same gods who send you messages in every sunrise and sunset. Who, after the rain stops, speak to you as the rays of the sun burn through the clouds and give…
Day 16: Wild
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram I work under the eyes of the kings. How could I not when I do such strange things? I have flexibility, ambiguity, and the willingness to do everything over the top. What I'm best at is causing a scene or distracting a queen. I can't help drawing the attention of…
Day 9: Swing
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram He's everything my dad wouldn't want me to have and Dad doesn't even know him. I'm just a really simple person. I've always been this way. I grew up simply in the middle of nowhere and wasn't expecting to have anything interesting happen about me or to me. I didn't…
Day 12: Dragon
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram Hiding places for the dragons were becoming less and less as man wanted and took more and more. The Earth was divided by those who took and those who wanted nothing but the ability to live and be free. Times were changing. Generations came who were tired…
Day 15: Legend
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram I am Eunoia. I deserve to be here. My whole life, the world offered me nothing and I worked with what I had to climb to the top. I am their general - their stratigos- and those who have reservations about this are welcome to challenge me…
Day 11: Snow
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram "Mom?" Mia stares out the living room window as her mom brushes her hair. "What's going to happen to our snowman when there's no more snow?" It's late February in northern Idaho and all the snow is melting, much to Mia's displeasure. She had fun with her…
Day 8: Frail
Art by Rhett Backstrom | Twitter | Instagram "I'm going to be the best!" Solar yells from his open window, causing a bird to fly out of a tree in his backyard. "They won't know what's coming for them!" "You won't know what's coming for you if you don't come down for breakfast!" Solar's mom…
