Sibyl's Sorrow
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Complete Thu, Nov 26, 20207m
A gothic tale of sorrow, melancholy, and the occult. The heroine of this tale seeks escape from the ennui and horror of forced matrimony through the creation of painted simulacrum, recreating the world she only sees from her window with paint upon her canvas yet misfortune soon follows her subjects.
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