Steve Simpson

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Steve Simpson has never been able to work out exactly what he does, although he would probably feed the cat if he had one. He’s sold over 30 poems and short stories to publishers for various magazines and anthologies, and his Purpose of Reality illustrated collections were published by Meerkat Press in 2022. They include The Beautiful Horizon, which was a finalist for the Aurealis Awards in the Fantasy Short Story Category. Texture of Silence, with co-author Eugen Bacon, was released in 2023.

In the visual arts, artworks and videos created with his image evolution software have been shown at many exhibitions, and with data from wearable EEG (Electroencephalogram) headsets, he’s developed a system to display meaningful artworks from changing
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Poetry & art Darklight: full artwork and technical description below. 

The dream began with a melody,
an unsteady pulse.

Time was a pale mist,
a lazy shoal of raindrops.

I journeyed to another world,
and night gave way to sunlight
that trickled like honey.

A trail of feathers,
coarsely woven
scraps of cloth,
and tiny
bleached
bones,
led me
to a windswept desertscape
where time phased and dephased
through the tangl

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