The Painter of Forgotten Faces
He painted strangers. Until the day they painted him back.
Samuel worked in a quiet studio by the sea, painting portraits from old photographs he found in antique stores. He called it “restoring lost souls.”
One morning, a man visited and asked for a portrait of his late wife. When Samuel looked at the photo, he froze—it was one of the faces he had already painted weeks ago, though he’d never met her.
The man was furious, claiming Samuel had stolen it. But when he took the canvas home, the image changed. The woman turned her head toward the viewer, smiling faintly.
The climax: Samuel returned to his studio the next morning and found new canvases waiting—paintings of people he didn’t remember painting, all staring at him. The final one was of himself, brush in hand, eyes wide with fear.
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