Surpassing Creation

An artist with the face of a fragmented Picasso strives for transcendent aestheticism in sculpture defiant of his birth defect. A lady horticulturist continues to beautify her orchards in spite of the environmentalist propaganda harming her enterprise. A postmodern scholar comes between these two potential soul-mates operating under the conviction that Beauty is a myth and that Western Bounty is an enemy to all. This fiction is preceded by my critical essay 'Ugliness' for The Beautiful: Resurrecting the Romantic Monsters of Stoker Shelley Hugo Leroux Rostand and Poe to Defeat Jason Chucky and Freddy.