The Artist Who Never Used an Eraser

a short story

Michelle Muses
Ardor
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8 min readOct 28, 2019

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I first met Leah when we were both thirteen.

I spent lunch breaks sitting cross-legged on the school lawn, sketching on my notepad. One day, I looked up to see a girl perched on the edge of a bench diagonally across me. She was drawing too. The next few days, I kept seeing her at the same spot.

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Michelle Muses
Ardor
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“Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable” —Mary Oliver.