Burk Winters was a panting,
shambling ape,
fleeting through dark and echoing pits of
horror.
Behind him hissed the lashes of
the jeering mob, savagely exultant
at having debauched
still another proud Terran
into something that crawled.
Burk Winters was a panting,
shambling ape,
fleeting through dark and echoing pits of
horror.
Behind him hissed the lashes of
the jeering mob, savagely exultant
at having debauched
still another proud Terran
into something that crawled.
Implied Spaces 
Wonderful!
Thanks very much Peter. 🙂
Wow, what an image. It’s making me say, I have got to read that book.
The story appeared in Planet Stories Magazine. If you click the link, & see the cover. The story includes the original magazine illustrations. It is a typical action packed pulp tale, but LEIGH BRACKETT gives it a Twilight Zone vibe with the ending. Brackett had a career as a writer of hardboiled mysteries & science fiction. Her mystery writing turned into a successful career as a screenwriter.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leigh_Brackett
The composition came together after sitting in my collage folder for some time. I rotated it from vertical to horizontal, modified the saturation, and replaced some of the negative space with asemic text from another collage.
Looking through recent pulp science fiction at Project Gutenberg, I found the opening blurb. They just added the story to their archive, synchronicity. 😀
Now I’m really hooked. Thank you for the info and also how you put the collage together. I really think it has the right look for this story and for this era of writing.
Thanks very much. 🙂