The Black Penny Market

Digital drawing. Silhouette of a person who appears to be standing in mid-air, seen from a low angle. The person is wearing pants and a hoodie, and a raising up right arm. Just above the left shoulder is a small black circle, glowing slightly. A multi-colored hazy bar of light originates from the circle, passes behind the figure, and angles to the bottom left corner, into a multi-colored gas cloud that leads into a fog. At top left corner a disc-shaped galaxy, the Milky Way. A translucent peach-colored bar angles up from the bottom right to the top right. Another similar bar angles to the left from the right side. A squiggly neon line connects the two bars. Colors drip upward where the two bars meet.

I was a pauper.

And then I found a penny, and all my fortunes changed.

Okay, I may be exaggerating a little, about the pauper part.

I had enough money to eat and to sleep under a roof and even to feed Cadbury. But if my fortunes didn’t change soon…

Continue reading