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Desiree Leeper

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The Mystery Painter

Submitted to Contest #20

He painted the walls layered in a thin sheen of cold water droplets, I sat behind him just beyond the line of light coming from the towering street lamp, masked in the dead of the night while his artwork glowed beneath his paint stained knuckles. Tilting my head slightly to my right a strand of my dark hair fell across my face and I stared not at the beauty of his creation, but rather the mysterious wonder and intent of those curved lines and bright colors he used to convey his developing message. Of all of the people i’ve watched to make a ...

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