Art imitates life, life imitates art…. Either way.

Below is the gruesome photograph that inspired the title [and first book cover] for Once Upon a Dead Gull. That was roughly a decade ago.

Once Upon a Dead Gull is an odd – nay peculiar short story anthology, but in my defense it was written for the horror genre.
Even more peculiar is that none of these stories are about a dead gull.

I know, right?!

The poor seagull’s parting gift to mankind… to me, was simply to give life to a book title and cover I had been struggling with.

Fast forward more years and tada. The dead gull was resurrected and a new cover was born.

This is not really a tell-all, nor is it a secret. I am not just a curious individual; I have a morbid curiosity.

Yep. I don’t stop with ghouls, ghosts, hidden places, locked doors, etcetera … Death amuses me.

And dead birds as witnessed by the above & below photographs.

I couldn’t save the beautiful little bird but I did (in a poetic way) paint him back to life.

My skill level does not do him justice.

There is no poem or story to commemorate him, I think it’s because I used the creative energy to paint him back to life.