Hanging In A Jar

Writer, actor, modest.

She grabbed clumps of wet sand and let the salt water cover her wrists. She is thinking about what she saw in piano class. She is hoping for a better dinner tonight. She is desperately trying to remain still. She lives until she's 76 but was missing her husband anyway. She's a talented artist. She dies too young of a cancerous growth in the neck. She gets in with the wrong crowd. She takes up needlework.

"All the more astonishing was the discovery the following day of a rosy-cheeked Virgin Mary that hung above the double bed of Pani Eliza, the old priest's housekeeper. Both canvases bore the marks of the same brush. The full face of the Virgin Mary was the portrait of Pani Eliza. And at this point I was close to solving the riddle of the Novograd icons. My guess led me into Pani Eliza's kitchen, where on fragrant evenings the shades of old feudal Poland assembled, the crazy painter presiding over them. But was he crazy, this Pan Apolek who had peopled with angels the outskirts of town and raised the lame convert Yanek to sainthood?" 'Pan Apolek', from Red Cavalry (Isaak Babel) An art historian enters art history, commissioning a heart by the name of Vrubel to restore the frescoes of St Cyril's Church, Kyiv. In the house of the historian, young Vrubel sleeps; waking at the feet of the historian's educated wife, Emilia.  Mother of Olga, and mo...