wandering on air with the swirling smoke of a tsarina’s cigarette in its foot-long Fabergé holder . . . windows sealed shut against the ice but a freezing draft turning the lilac in the vases into icicles creeping towards the floor . . . a genie or perhaps Aladdin himself . . . time to be carried away or carried back . . . no way to know and Scheherazade not wanting to tell . . .
my fall series post for today at the link over on my Substack.
https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-0ac
it includes this image
L. Frank Baum surrounded by the characters in The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays, a 1908 film live action production of the Wizard of Oz that closed in two months because the staging was very expensive despite the sold out houses.