Strokes
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Last published Mon, Feb 28, 2022
The stroke of the brush against the canvas soothes Pierce's war ridden heart. The thirty year old, served in the army and now he's home. He decides to start teaching an art class, a silly idea at first, but soon it becomes therapeutic to him. He enjoys watching the musing of young artists. He enjoys watching her, as she paints. She paints with vigor and passion. She pours her heart into her work. Though she is twelve years younger, he is captured by her work...and by her. For her, art is an escape from the pressures of reality. Her parents want her to become a lawyer but all she wants is to create and paint.
Can these two unlikely people meet in the strokes of their brushes to draw a masterpiece of their own?
Or has fate painted them a different story?
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