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Submitted to Contest #322
I have killed Vincent Clarke six times. I have painted him over twice as much, each on a different-sized canvas, using a different brush, with a different color palette. Like art, Clarke is new every time I see him. Like art, Clarke never stays dead. The first time I killed him was an accident. I can’t say for sure about the second time. By the third time, it was deliberate. It was just so easy. I slit his throat one time, and he laughed himself to death. He was never more beautiful than he was in that moment, with a grin as big and red as ...
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