Figures in Blue

General Fiction, Gay & Lesbian, Classics

By Ted Morrissey

Publisher : Twelve Winters Press

Figures in Blue

ABOUT Ted Morrissey

Ted Morrissey
I'm the author of the novels An Untimely Frost and Men of Winter and the novelette Figures in Blue, all from Twelve Winters Press. My fiction has appeared in numerous journals, including Glimmer Train Stories, The Chariton Review, PANK, and Pisgah Review. A Ph.D. in English studies, I've  More...

Description

Figures in Blue, a novelette by Ted Morrissey, is the story of Esteban Espiritu, a young Spanish artist who is commissioned to paint the portrait of Kristena von Lichtenberg, an elderly Baroness living in a deteriorating mansion that overlooks a provincial German village.  However, Esteban uncovers a local mystery about the disappearance of her brutish husband, the Baron.  The novelette is set in the beginning of the twentieth century and references classical mythology.