C's For Cybele With Her Gorey Tattoo

VENICE, CA -- A tattoo of two children hitting each other over the head with croquet mallets graces Cybele O'Brien's left shoulder. It's an illustration by that master of morbid, Edward Gorey, from his book The Epiplectic Bicycle.

"It's a made-up word," O'Brien says, producing a copy of the macabre little paperback.

We sit together on the indoor porch of her grandfather's home, a sun-bleached beach cottage, the likes of which are becoming scarcer and scarcer in Venice, Calif. Out the windows, beyond poisonous calla lilies and thorny branches of heirloom rose bushes, beyond a narrow walk bisecting the tranquil block, lies a field of fetching wildflowers upon which Cybele was shot (for this Gorey story).

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