20 48th Street #4F Weehawken, New Jersey 07086 USA GWisniewski1@aol.com 9 October 2008 Dear Mr. Laghi: Attached please find a copy of my manuscript, “And Broke His Crown”, which I am submitting for your consideration, along with a one-page summary. The story is a comic fictional satire about the art world.  It covers a number of themes pertinent to this subject, among them the fickleness of the art-buying public, and ageism toward artists stemming from the constant search...

Changing out of his painting clothes after a somewhat disappointing day in his studio, he noticed the worn spot on the heel of his sock. It reminded him of the bald spot on the back of his head. He went over to the kitchen sink to look at himself in the mirror. The sink had a mirror above it because it was the only one in the apartment, situated right next to the bathtub, which was, as is often was the case in old tenements like this one, also in the kitchen. His looks had begun to follow th...

They lay there in a heap. It was now four days after Jill's eruption, the trip having been extended due to a minor run-in with the local authorities in Maine that had landed the entire assembly in the drunk tank for a few nights (which made them consider the trip a great success). He stood in horror and disbelief staring at them. Face up, face down, twisted like airplane wreckage; they looked like they’d been thrown from the window. Thank God he built his own stretchers out of lumber, otherwi...