THROWBACK THURSDAY
AT NIGHT WE PAINT THE STARS
I posted this back in September of 2022, when I had 43 subscribers. It got a total of 13 comments. Not a lot, I now, but then, my stories don’t generate a lot of comments. That’s just the way it goes sometimes. So I thought I’d pull this out of the archives and shake off the dust a bit.
It’s a different kind of a story. The title came first if you want to know. It’s from a letter by Van Gogh, writing home to his brother, talking about the time he was in France, painting. It’s a direct quote I heard on the radio one day (CBC-FM, in Vancouver) while working. It stuck with me. So, it was always going to be about an artist, but everything else? Well, I knew it had to be a love affair, I just didn’t know what sort of characters would be populating the story. Sometimes, you have to write the story just to see where it’s going.
