Write about a gallery whose paintings come alive at night.

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“The secret of the gallery” by Arwen Schepers

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It was the gallery of the empress. Elodie had heard the stories, the rumours through out the city. How she had teams working on this feat. The living paintings, coming only alive at night. It was claimed that that was because of the decadence, the construction of the spell. Elodie wondered if it was not also a matter of skill, that the spells had to be structured that way to work rather than a choice they made. Still, Elodie was curious for the paintings. There were some things, uses really, coming to mind, depending on what the spells were ...

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“Whispers of Stone and Paint” by Hannah Deegan

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You know when you have that really long, deep sleep where your eyes get crusty by the time you awake. Well, that's what waking up every night for what I call the night shift is like. You’d think being stuck between four thick walls my entire life that I’d be claustrophobic. Fresh air is something I’ve never experienced though the air seems to clear up a bit in the dark with less people around. Nonetheless, I survive. It’s not living but what choice do I have? I’ve never left home. It’s certainly not for the lack of desire. Truthfully, I don’...

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“Prowling the Van Gogh's Hallways” by Tod Hughes

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Vincent stretched and climbed out of bed. He made his way to the corner of the room and gingerly stepped out of the frame of the picture, carefully gasping the sides, and lowering his body to the floor below. The hallway of the museum was semi-dark, but Vincent could make out the details of each of his works that hung on the walls. He had no way of knowing that his evening wanderings were within the confines of the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, nor that it was the largest collection of his art in the world. All he knew w...

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“Blood Sacrifice” by Patrick Boey

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If you listen closely enough, you might just hear the faint whispering of the paintings when a new artwork arrives at The Gallery Diablerie. A stifled laugh here, a murmured rumour there—easy to attribute to any of the gallery’s wealthy clientele or dismiss as a passing echo or the squeak of a wooden floorboard. But when the lights are down and the visitors have departed, the paintings gossip freely amongst themselves, nudging their neighbours and visiting friends on the next landing; exchanging hearsay and dealing judgement; assessing the n...

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“No Name Museum” by Ralph Emery Barhydt

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“I always thought that museum in the weird little building at the end of Harrison Street was odd, more than unusual, but it displayed incredible art. Masters all. I told my friends about it constantly but they could never find it. That used to make me so angry. I would rant and rave, jump up and down, wave my arms and beat my chest, but I would not take them there. It was ridiculous. They should just drive right to it and they were running a con on me. Hell with them.” Monet, DaVinci, Manet, van Gogh, Rembrandt, Gaugin, Picasso, D...

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“Paintings, Where do you want to escape today?” by Barney Defanfaler

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PAINTINGSWhere do you want to escape today?By Barney Defanfaler ‘Ah heck,’ thinks Barney as he hears steady footsteps plodding up the Windsor Gallery stairs and sees a flashlight beam coursing across the opposite wall. His wristwatch displays midnight. ‘Why is she so early? I’m trapped.’Barney runs around a corner into the art gallery's second-floor east room and hugs the wall. His head bumps into a painting frame, and he quickly grabs it to steady it.‘What the flip?’ he thinks as his hand sinks beyond the canvas. Barney turns to find a fami...

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Write about a gallery whose paintings come alive at night.

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✍️ 66 stories

“The secret of the gallery” by Arwen Schepers

“Whispers of Stone and Paint” by Hannah Deegan

“Prowling the Van Gogh's Hallways” by Tod Hughes

“Blood Sacrifice” by Patrick Boey

“No Name Museum” by Ralph Emery Barhydt

“Paintings, Where do you want to escape today?” by Barney Defanfaler

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