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Living Pictures
by Wesley Doyle
Language: English
ISBN: 979-8-9820422-1-7
Categories: Fiction » Historical » Western & American frontier
Content Rating: Older than 17
Nevada, 1875. The silver booms are going bust, and Professor Orpheus Flint, humbug, photographer, and artist in light, keeps arriving in towns four months after the money has left.
Then a disgraced widow named Cassandra Locke tells him he’s been selling the wrong thing. Not likenesses. Permission.
What they build is a traveling show of tableaux vivants: classical scenes brought to life by women the world has already thrown away. A singer whose voice outlived her welcome, two Cornish widows who finish each other’s sentences, a silent woman with the steadiest hands in the territory. Nobody works for wages. Everyone holds a share, written in Cassandra’s ledger and read aloud on demand.
From busted mining camps to the richest town in Nevada, they find the West full of deacons, mine bosses, and marshals who would very much like them gone, and a company that keeps growing by one.
Living Pictures is a Western serial about being looked at, and choosing the terms. A new part arrives every week, along with the true history behind the story.