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Submitted to Contest #80
Fred the Painter An elderly gent by the name of Fred entered Level 4, Room 10 of the British Tate Modern on a Sunday at noon, not knowing quite what to expect. The building buzzed with curiosity. Some saw him as a curiosity to be admired; others as a wonderful tale, perhaps full of historical value, to be filed away in the history books, to be read a generation later, in the dim light of a half-lit office, to be strung together into a grand narrative by a writer who eventually saw to it that Fred’s life was written down. Fred, or Freddy as s...
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