Kaleidoscope

by Lance Mazmanian

Black-hot shower, with rainbow sparkling custard. Lightspeed daggers and curious hedge... with berries of platinum and glass. Nightscape flames will do no harm. And though her skies may fall in sections, or her girders long and glittery boil, she keeps her garden, her gait, her world... with her eyes a harbor, and a journey. Daylight returns, and the ocean ahead she knows. On the dash of her car, a cup of coffee.

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Lance Mazmanian, word/visual author, was once distributed by Random House alongside Harlan Ellison and got a coffee as payment. Mazmanian was internationally published in 2025 by London Writers' Salon, Fiction on the Web UK, WILDsound Writing Festival (TIFF; Canada), and more. The late Leonard Cohen once proposed they collaborate on a poetry chapbook until a tragic hard disk crash ended the dream. A multi-genre builder, Mazmanian is Co-Creator of a 2025 Sky TV series starring Billy Hayes of Midnight Express fame. As a Homo sapien, Mazmanian is half "Old Country" Armenian, half Dame Judi-style English, minus her fabulous blue eyes, regrettably.