ARTS & LETTERS — The writing and artwork of Dook (Dustin Covey)

A weathered wooden writing desk stands alone in a dim, book-lined study, its grain rich with amber and charcoal tones. An open, cream-colored notebook filled with dense handwritten lines rests beside a heavy, matte-black fountain pen and a chipped ceramic mug stained by years of coffee. Soft, cool northern evening light filters through a frosted window, catching dust motes and creating a luminous haze above the desk. Shadows pool in the corners, lending a contemplative, almost sacred stillness. Photographic realism, shot at eye level with a shallow depth of field, keeps the notebook in razor-sharp focus while shelves of blurred, colorful spines melt into the background, emphasizing solitude, craft, and the quiet intensity of writing.

About Dook

An introduction to the writing, artwork, and obsessions guiding this small corner of the cosmos.

Stories

Browse fiction, essays, and visual notes from the northern prairies.

A sprawling, snow-dusted prairie under a vast, twilight sky stretches to the horizon, captured in photographic realism. In the foreground, a solitary, rough-hewn wooden signpost bears small metal plaques engraved with single words—"story," "letter," "image," and "ending"—each weathered and slightly tarnished. Indigo and violet hues wash over distant grain silos and low, shadowy tree lines. A pale aurora begins to shimmer faintly overhead, its light reflecting in a thin layer of ice along a gravel road that snakes away. The low-angle, wide-lens composition emphasizes scale and isolation, while the cold, clean atmosphere feels both stark and quietly mystical, echoing northern Canadian narratives that reach toward the end of the world and beyond.

Stories From The Infinite Prairie

I write strange, tender fiction and essays where prairie dust, cosmic dread, and quiet humour collide. Influenced by weird sci‑fi, slipstream, and myth, my work follows ordinary people confronting uncanny worlds, memory glitches, and the thin edge of apocalypse.

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Featured

Start with a handful of favourites: gateway stories, sketchbooks, and experiments that map the journey from Edmonton back alleys to distant galaxies, tracing the same bittersweet, slightly crooked line through every piece.

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A meticulously arranged flat lay of creative tools occupies a dark charcoal linen backdrop in photographic realism. A vintage, brass-trimmed typewriter with matte black keys anchors the upper edge, while a sketchbook lies open below, displaying one page of tight, typed text and the facing page filled with a detailed graphite illustration of a crumbling prairie farmhouse. Scattered around are sharpened charcoal sticks, muted gouache pans, and neatly stacked index cards labeled with short, enigmatic titles. Soft, diffused overcast light from the left creates gentle gradients on the metal surfaces and deep, velvety shadows in the fabric folds. Shot from a bird’s-eye view, the composition is balanced but slightly asymmetrical, evoking a sophisticated, disciplined workspace where writing and visual art merge seamlessly.
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