Charles McGuigan
Bio
Charles McGuigan lives and writes in Richmond, Virginia.
Stories (3/0)
Emerald
Emerald is my name, and I keep the watch for Sector Seven here in Richmond. Three days on, four days off, from Horse Creek in the north to Shockoe Creek in the south, all the way out to the hinterlands on the Chickahominy River. Easy as pie; a piece of cake. I could walk it off in my sleep without stumbling, patrol it in a dreamy daze.
By Charles McGuigan3 years ago in Humans
A Monumental Change
It may not have been “the shot heard round the world,” but it was an excruciatingly long and violent video seen and heard by billions of people across the Earth. Every single one of them heard the pleas of a black man who was killed in the most violent of manners by a white man who was supposed to protect and serve him. That, while three other police officers stood by and did nothing to stop the brutality, which they could have done any time during those eternal nine minutes before George Floyd gave up the ghost. Everything is now changed for good and all; there is no going back. George Floyd’s murder shone a retina-scorching light on racial inequities that have dominated our nation since even before its birth. Those who refuse to see them were already blind.
By Charles McGuigan3 years ago in FYI
Nico Cathcart
Nico Cathcart has been an artist practically since birth. From the time her fingers could grip the ferrule of a paintbrush and guide it along a flat surface, Nico was painting. In those very early years she worked in water colors and gouache on rolls of brown packing paper, fabricating homages to Van Gogh. When she became a teenager, Nico discovered oils, and a teacher of hers who saw her talent and obsession with the painted word gave her a book that would move her toward what she has become—a gallery artist and one of Richmond’s leading muralists. It was an art book, and still sits on a coffee table in her home. It’s about one of the grandest murals ever painted—the Sistine Chapel.
By Charles McGuigan3 years ago in Journal