Sunday, November 23, 2025

People of Pleasure: the story of the big little girl

Greetings, commies and art lovers!

For your esthetic pleasure, here is my latest novelette in Bewildering Stories. My first historical piece with a dual timeline - 2024 Philadelphia and 17th century Spain. As far as I know, there aren't any fictional accounts of Eugenia Martinez Vallejo, the big little girl in the painting of Juan Carreno de Miranda, the court painter for the Spanish Habsburgs. I have mustered the courage the tackle the story of the gargantuan child-muse that tickled the fancy and, possibly, stirred the hearts of the Spanish royals. 

https://bewilderingstories.com/issue1116/people_pleasure1.html