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There Is No Devil Sinners Duet Book 2 By Sophie Lark-pdfread

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“Joss and Brinley are here, too,” Frank tells me.

I assume that means Joanna isn’t. I didn’t expect anything different, but it

still stings.

The gallery throbs with the playlist I spent all week picking out.

Cole encouraged me to choose the music myself, even though I wasn’t sure

anybody else would like it.

“Who gives a shit,” he says. “It’s what you were playing when you painted

the pieces, so the songs will match the work. They already go together,

whether you meant them to or not.”

He’s right.

Heart Shaped Box – Neovaii

Spotify → geni.us/no-devil-spotify

Apple Music → geni.us/no-devil-apple

As a cover of Heart-Shaped Box pours out of the speakers, the creepy musicbox

backing track perfectly suits my oversized painting of a charred teddy

bear, glass eyes melted, fur still smoking in places.

I hadn’t realized ‘till this moment how the painting’s title echoes the lyrics of

the song:

Meat-eating orchids forgive no one just yet

Cut myself on angel hair and baby’s breath

This one hurt me the most to paint. It’s just a fucking bear, but I was

overwhelmed with guilt that something I had loved had met such a bitter end.

I almost didn’t finish, putting the painting aside, then changing my mind,

turning it around again, and setting it back on the easel. I tilted it, I

Remember and I Don’t Forget.

This series includes eight paintings in all, each larger than the last. I want the

viewer to feel dwarfed by the canvases, overwhelmed by them. Like they

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