12. THE ONION’S TALE

‘An onion rolls into a natural foods store …’

Thus begins ‘The Onion's Tale’, a flash fiction piece included in The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales, a book you can pre-order HERE.

‘The onion is really cute,’ the story goes, ‘I mean really cute, its face smushed together, one of its eyes squeezed shut in a wink. It even has the most darling little hands, just beginning to nub out from between its skins.’ An ongoing crowd favorite, ‘The Onion’s Tale’ was inspired by a panicky experience inside the smug and predatory lifestyle behemoth, Whole Foods. I also adapted the story to a broadside, which you can read more about here. And GUESS WHAT? The first fifty people to pre-order The Story of How All Animals Are Equal & Other Tales from the Brooklyn Arts Press website will get a FREE limited-edition broadside from a story in the collection—yours could be 'The Onion's Tale'!

An onion rolls into a natural foods store . . .

I recently finished printing a broadside that features the story of a cute little onion lost in the vast, chaotic hell of Whole Foods. You can look at it here.

A broadside, in case you're wondering, is a print where text takes precedent over image, sometimes to the point where words and letters loosen a bit from their meanings. My broadsides are less experimental than many in that I pretty much stick to blocks of prose. But I still love the tension that happens between a story's content and the contexts that form around its visual presentation.

There are a bunch of other broadsides posted over at my website.