No Live Models: A Short Read

by Michael Critzer

After thirty-six years of marriage, Karen's husband has stopped painting still lifes and returned to painting nudes. He claims to be using "no live models." Karen suspects he's not telling her the truth about what he does in his studio each day. But is she prepared for the terrible fulness of that truth?

8 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 2, 2025

About the author

As a fiction writer, Michael Critzer’s work appears in a growing number or literary magazines and genre anthologies. As a cultural studies scholar, he has presented at academic conferences on the cultural and psychological roles superheroes play in our society. To that end, he is the founder of the buzz-generating Iconic Superman page on Facebook and the Iconicast Podcast. When all of that play is done, he teaches writing, rhetoric and American literature in Central Virginia.