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Day 91

I recently quit working at an art gallery.
You see, we've had this problem recently and its... hard to describe.
It started when we someone anonymously donated this gorgeous old painting.
I took a photo of it before everything weird started to happen.


























About six days after we hung it up under our local artists section
a figure appeared off to the side.
We couldn't quite see their gender or any details really, they were
just a humanoid blob by the sea.
We thought nothing of it, convinced ourselves that it had always been there.
And then it started moving.

Some days it had its hand raised like waving, sometimes crouched, sometimes
pointing.
Another figure joined it a week later, this one we recognised.
It was a woman done in the pointillist style by Georges Seurat.
She was missing from her own painting and somehow ended up in this, washing
her hands in the river.
She didn't move like the other figure.

Soon enough she was joined by another person from another painting.
We checked and sure enough they were missing from their original
place and frozen in this one.
It was inexplicable!
Nobody took us seriously, we even called in an art expert who claimed we were
just pranking him and should be ashamed.

After a month or two it stopped taking painted people.
For a while it was quiet, we'd moved the painting to our storeroom.
We hoped that if it was nowhere near the others, it wouldn't be able to
take any of them.
It still did but at least we tried.

I quit after it started taking our staff.
I don't want to be ne

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