Name: William Maltese
Location: USA
Title: “I, Amen” ©2009 William Maltese
Price Original: Artist’s collection.
Medium: Digital Art
Artist/Writers web site: http://www.williammaltese.com
http://www.myspace.com/williammaltese
A Short Story by William Maltese:
My life is filled with religious personages—
At my birth: my uncle, the priest.
Classmates and teachers during seminar.
Peers and Pope at The Vatican.
All of us offering up promises of Eternal Life and Paradise after death.
At my death bed…
My friend, confident, and Father Confessor, Cardinal Martesse, with the all-important Viaticum and all-important passwords, “May the Lord Jesus Christ protect you and lead you to eternal life.”
Except, in the end, all I become is just one more shifting shadow in an endless void.
©2009 William Maltese
11 responses so far ↓
1 vikki // Oct 30, 2009 at 10:09 pm
Oh William. How sad! All he’s become is another Shifting Shadow? No angle on wings?
Really, really, wonderful short story and I like your dark textural piece to complement it. You are indeed a literary master , my shower mate.
2 vikki // Oct 30, 2009 at 10:10 pm
That was suppose to be ‘angel’ on wings. lol I do speak English…at least most of the time.
3 beckielboo // Oct 30, 2009 at 11:09 pm
You are a wonderful writer and your ability to tie in a picture is amazing and always on target!
4 Sonya Meglaurel // Oct 31, 2009 at 6:48 am
William, you haunt me.
5 Rusty // Oct 31, 2009 at 2:31 pm
Provocative. I always find it shocking when I have been misled. You’d think I’d be used to it by now. The offered hope that controls our path and then the reality. Well done, truly.
6 Candle Artist Jfay // Oct 31, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Sad to think of us becoming just a shifting shadow, which is that the sum of the void between birth and death in our lives? And in the end what of promises made to control your existence? Makes you think — And I do like the hauntingly beautiful artwork that goes with your short as well.
7 Sarah // Oct 31, 2009 at 8:48 pm
William, an endless void? We assume this is a negative thing…hmmm…This needs some deep thinking (which I love to do, so thank you
8 Chaotic Tranquility // Oct 31, 2009 at 9:32 pm
Ok .. maybe I’ve been looking at your void rendition too long because it looking like a writhing sea of headless figures and skeleton parts and distorted faces .. or maybe that’s what I’m supposed to see ..? Sooo creepy but mesmerizing at the same time .. as is your story. Kudos !
9 Mary Mary // Nov 2, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Love your short story William, and the last line too. Yes, it is all an endless void.
10 Jasper McCutcheon // Nov 8, 2009 at 3:50 am
William, I think we visit the endless void nightly. It is the distance between bed and toilet, and our shifting shadow struggles to navigate the void before our bladder bursts.
11 Chaotic Tranquility // Nov 12, 2009 at 8:23 pm
xD
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