This is one of my (Cecilia Brainard) sketches in reed and pen and ink.  This depicts two women from my childhood who fascinated me and inspired my fiction.  One was a woman who reportedly had horns on her forehead; the other was said to be a witch and who always carried an umbrella so she could hide her face.  I'm pasting below my short story "Woman With Horns" which is part of literature … [Read more...] about Sketch: Inspiration for Cecilia Branard’s Woman with Horns