Sketches from the Spanish Mustang
- Authors
- Benjamin X. Wretlind
- Publisher
- Benjamin X. Wretlind
- Tags
- love , death , salvation , rebirth , cripple creek , art and literature
- Size
- 0.45 MB
- Lang
- en
An artist sits at a table in a casino in Cripple Creek, Colorado. She is broken, alone, and she is waiting. Shes waiting for redemption, waiting for a chance to prove she can really see through someone elses eyes. And as she waits, she sketches those around her, those who keep their secrets buried deep. Its not simply something she wants to do; its something she has to do, and it might just save a life.While all people have secrets, the artist quickly learns that some of them are every bit as dark as her own. There is the immigrant looking for fortune and finding death along the way. There is the woman running for her life, desperate to hide in a small town that is, for its own sake, trying to live again. There is the angry man, jilted by his now-dead wife, looking for revenge. There is the veteran who cant remember, the woman about to lose her mother, and the drunk who doesnt want to be what people see on the outside. There are more...