This is for the
750 Word Project 2023
. I wish to thank my wonderful editor, Ken. More chapters are to follow.
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Lois and Jenny were excited. Lois had discovered it and Jenny was being dragged over to see it. It was in the antiques neighborhood, down on East 10th Street, in Greenwich Village. The two women loved antiques, even if they could never afford them from the high-rent district on East 10th. Little antique stores in the New England countryside were more their style. Still, browsing was free.
Lois had found something special in the new store, named after its founder and owner, John Byron Goode. She assumed that Jenny would be drawn to it. Lois had never seen Jenny naked, but she had seen her in a tiny bikini, which gave her a close approximation. The stem of the lamp Lois had found at Goode antiques was a marble sculpture of a naked woman. Jenny could have modeled for the sculptor if she had lived in France in the 1880s. Not only were the breasts an exact match for Jenny's but so was the ass, the legs, the flat tummy, everything, even and especially the face!
Lois found Jenny staring at the lamp. "I have to buy this lamp," she said. "I think it's my great, great, great, great grandmother, Francine de Chamonix. She was a model in Rodin's workshop."
"She was?"
"According to family legend, yes."
"It says 'sculptor unknown.' If it's a Rodin Mr. Goode would advertise that and charge a fortune for it," Lois said.