Richard Charles Beckham II holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Antioch University Los Angeles. He's a graduate from the University of Washington with a degree in English, where he wrote articles for the school’s alternative newspaper The Weekly Enema. He's also one of the founding professional writers for the iTunes app, HOOKED, where his text message format pieces have over 600,000 reads, one of which was made into the short film "VAN." He has had his work featured in The Bookends Review's “Best of 2015 Anthology,” as well as Innovative Fiction Magazine, Metazen, Yesteryear Fiction, Dying Writers, Gold Man Review, with a poem published by Leaves of Ink. To learn more about Richard check his Facebook page or email him politely.
Aside from his prose, Richard has had a poem published by Leaves of Ink and a cartoon published by The Humor Times. He is also an oil painter whose work has appeared in restaurants, coffee shops, and galleries around Seattle where he lives with his wife and son. His paintings can be seen at: www.flickr.com/photos/rcb_2.
Currently, he is working on his most recent novels. Feel free to find out more about him at www.richardbeckham.com.
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His sensitivity presses against the inner drum of his skin. Stretches. And feelings, like fuzzy worms in waxy paper bags, heighten the frequency of his electric current–his synapses.
The world he sees bends in an ecliptic motion and time slows to a stop. Infinity. Light and darkness split like an atomic bomb and he feels the entirety of the air like he knows the range of his whole body. The water in his blood is what keeps the salt in the oceans, the flake of dust on the hood of a car.
He sees the world in a cool eternity, another kind of warm glossiness such as the glazed doughnut crust after the kiln or the frosty January threads of Arachne. No longer does he care if he is naked for he knows everyone is naked, everyone is born and dead, alive and changing. Before him is an intangible realm beyond the mind, but between the mind and the body.
And he could sing, floating on a sling of angel hairs, but to sing would shatter the fluidity of his vision. The transcendence. So he steps beyond the voids of our thinking, like skipping over puddles on the sidewalk. He steps where we all meet–the giant canvas in the sky that holds everything, but erases all at once.
The field of his vision is limitless, yet concentrated enough to be focused.
He drifts…a puff of cotton gliding through the intangible realm.