Photo Challenge #350 – Open Relationship

Use the cover image as inspiration for a poem or short story. Alternatively, if you are an artist or photographer, use this as an opportunity to showcase your own work.

For the original challenge, please visit, https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2021/01/19/photo-challenge-350/

My Submission 🙂

He covered the canvas in black, then used a multitude of fine instruments to etch every detail of her supple breasts, the curve of her shoulder, her delicate fingertips, stroking his earlobe. As white poked through, their bodies took form. He was an old man now, but with every calculated scratch, he brought forth his former self and the one who got away. Upon completion, he hung it in his bedroom above the bed. But his wife didn’t mind. That woman had left her as well.