Challenge
Impossible Figures
...I am reexamining a book titled Adventures with Impossible Figures by Bruno Ernst, pen name of J.A.F. de Rijk. It's on the type of optical illusions in which perception of space changes, as with the well-known Candles and Profiles drawing, or the one of the Old Woman/ Young Woman portrait and others more complicated such as by M.C. Escher. I am wondering how similar effects might be created in short story form. Flash fiction, though a poem would be an impressive feat for the challenge. Thank you in advance for your creativity :)
CORVUS
Greg waved his hands, and smiled at Martha. But Martha did not smile back. He watched as the skin on her face began to twist, and turn inside out— ‘n’ about- that startled & frightened him.
He stared back at his hands, and noticed that his fingers were changing to different colors as if he was looking through a kaleidoscope. Greg shook his head, and soon a wave of water splashed out from his elephant like ears. This was quite a bizarre day. Either he was on stage, and had been placed into some kind of trance, or this was really happening and there was no way out of his current reality!
Mardi, 20th May, 2025.