It takes a great deal of courage to submit a manuscript for possible publication. Many writers spend months, even years, putting down on paper what they feel will be, if not the Great American Novel, then at least a darn good one. They look back with pleasure on the long hours of pounding the keyboard in producing that first draft. With less excitement they recall the grueling days and nights editing that first attempt into something they hope will be presentable in the marketplace.

               MARTIAN CHRONICLES (1950)

THE LILY PAD, THE JAPANESE BRIDGE

THE CART: THE ROAD UNDER SNOW IN HONFLEUR

BIG JOE HAMMER DR0VE THIS CAR

                 ARCHIMEDES IN HIS WOODEN TUB, WORKING ON HIS FAMOUS PRINCIPLE

    Painting by Auguste Renoir, 1876

STEMS OF WHITE PEONIES AND PRUNING SHEARS

                                   BERTHE MORISOT

          VAMPIRE AND SKULL (Public Domain)

YOUNG BOY LEANING OVER BAKERY COUNTER

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YOUNG GIRL BATHING:

Painting by Auguste Renoir (1890)

FLASHING MY SHORTS by Salvatore Buttaci

        "Cigarettes"  by Anna Cervova (Public Domain Photo)

                          A BOWL OF PLUMS  

                     THE IRONING LADIES (LES REPASSEUSES) 

How did the man become trapped inside a jar? Don't let the megaphone fool you. He can scream all he wants, but he will remain trapped, splashing in the briny depths. Something horrid this way comes...

You can't see it, but there's a silencer at the end of her pistol. 

THE WOMAN IN GLOVES (LA FEMME AUX GANTS)

THE BALCONY (LE BALCON) BY EDOUARD MANET (1869)