I love that you pay homage to one of your favorite writers, @lordtimoty. You've masterfully captured an artist at a crisis point. Her despair and anger, paired with the powerful imagery of red wine and shattered glass, create a great tension. We fear what she may do in her darkest moments, and this creates the story's arc. But the artist turns to her craft, taking out her deep angst in the form of dark artistic expression. This provides the release of the tension built early in the story, and resolves the conflict beautifully. Well done!
One small thing you might want to correct is this line:
exerted by mere moments of clarity as her piece took she shape
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Morning @Jayna; always the way, you read a piece over and over and you'll never see your own typos. In truth, I think this sentence originally did call for the 'she' before morphing in its new direction. Perhaps then, it's worth another detour?
"her breathing punctuating an otherwise silent night."
Have a fabulous day, Tim.
Nice! I edit my stories forever and then I look at them the next time and I still find something I want to change. I send mine off to publications, and it's always tough to say one is officially done.
That's awesome to hear you publish; where do your stories end up? Novels, or magazines or in other places? Academia? You may as well just call this the inquisition!
Ha ha. Well, I've been writing short stories off and on for quite a few years, @lordtimoty. Recently, I finally got serious about polishing them and submitting them to online journals and literary magazines. Slowly, they are starting to be accepted and published. It is a lengthy process! As they are published, I add them to this page on my website: https://jaynalocke.com/fiction/publications/.