Julian Swartz

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“Invisible Ink” by Julian Swartz

Submitted to Contest #285

[CONTENT WARNING: severe brain injury, aphasia, and implied death.]:There was a kind of beauty in drawing, I had always thought, because a picture didn’t have to say anything.My eyes watched as a piece of black charcoal slowly swiped across the parchment. In its wake was a think line of flaking carbon, of which decorated the face of the square parchment sitting at my fingertips. Rich marks intersected one another, drawing the eye in a circular pattern from left to right, like a timeline. Road signs for a wanderer’s mind.Almost like a sentenc...

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UofA Linguistics major, and tuba & piano player