Another Shine! Showcase: The Clown !. (clownscape)

Each week (or so...) I select another member of our group to showcase on our site by making them a "Feature". This means that one of their works (I choose) will be shared with everyone along with a bio. Through this showcase, I hope you will learn something new about our SHINE members as well as support their creative efforts.  If you would like to be featured it's easy: You must be a member of SHINE and you just have to let me know! How's that for ease of use?  Bold entries in the article are links.  

We must leave last week's showcase about  David Salyer as we welcome Abhishek Sengupta, aka The Clown !. as our SHINE! Showcase for June 8, 2007. Abhishek is a writer born in Kolkata (India) whose works lean toward the philosophical or spiritual, and to some, the supernatural. 

Writing since the age of ten, Abhishek relates a first experience in thinking about writing and then giving voice to the vision. "One fine evening, when I was 10 years old, I watched my shadow in the candlelight and was disturbed by the fact that I couldn't manipulate it to move in directions unlike which I took myself, although the shadow belonged to me. In my first fiction I had given that freedom to my shadow. That became the preoccupation with everything I wrote."   

This former formal student of English Literature says, "I created realms in which there were infinite possibilities and interpretations manifold. I browsed through libraries to search all the limitations from which I could break free in my writings. I studied psychology, sociology, neuroscience, philosophy, arts, bits and parts of history. Allusions were slowly incorporated into my writings."   

 An MBA student, our friend is influenced musically by a varied list of musicians like Beethoven, Bach and Mozart , as well as Sade  and Coldplay. His favorite books include  One Hundred Years of Solitude  and  LABYRINTHS " 

"I confess  writing through my instincts more than I ever do through my introspection," says our featured creative. One such beautiful example is Glass. Do enjoy.     

Best and keep shining,

Pamela, Editor of    SHINE...THE JOURNAL | Flash Literature, Poetry, Art and Photography!