The Last Portrait
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"Some paintings aren't meant to be finished. Some memories aren't meant to be remembered."
Alex Weaver is a quiet artist, or perhaps a baker, or a soldier, who's been unraveling since the tragic death of his closest friend, Luke Rodriguez. He paints to remember. He bakes to forget. But the faces on his canvases always come out the same: blurred, screaming, and disturbingly familiar.
When he discovers a journal entry dated February 31st, 1968, Alex begins to question not just his memories, but his entire existence. Whispers from under the floorboards, reflections that don't match, and dreams of war he never fought in begin to tear apart the fragile line between reality and hallucination.
As his world decays around him, Alex must confront the truth he's spent years painting over: Who was Luke? What really happened the night he died? And... is Alex the narrator of this story, or just a creation within someone else's final masterpiece?
A chilling descent into guilt, identity, and the horrors of the human mind, "The Last Portrait" is a psychological thriller where the narrator isn't just unreliable...
He may not exist at all.
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