Out numbered but hopeful / the moon hangs its glamour / on a streetlamp.
Scatterings of Autumn / On the doormat, / A dying year / Spread across the bamboo floor, / Greying my hair.
"Year of the Shorts began as a Christmas card to friends and family friends. This functional piece of design contained short stories and anecdotes, keeping the audience entertained throughout the year.
Now in its fifth year I have come to realise I spend much more time on the content than on the design. I love to write as well, but it has been more and more difficult to come up with content on my own."
We're no longer being allowed to die.
In this future we are living on, something intangible has been stolen,
But no one is angry, because they weren't aware of it in the first place.
A new generation has been born, seeking deaeth, seeking to truly die.
We are not afraid.
With beautiful, simplistic artwork and storytelling, Melanie Furtado has crafted an illustrated story zine that follows the intriguing life cycle of the lovely heads.may found lovely heads bloomed
with hair of fragrant nectar
whose scent did draw
a flock of moths
to feast on
such sweet locks
and dawn found them bald and bare,
dark eyes filling at the loss of their hair-