A Picture Worth 100 Words

First date jitters at a gallery

Elle Hanley
Mar 10, 2022
Photo by Dani Marroquin on Unsplash

She sipped the wine and rolled it around her tongue, absently adjusting her jacket over her arm. Her shoes pinched, but the date had promise. And she’d wanted to see an O’Keeffe.

She stopped in front of the painting, vaguely interested at first in the intensity of color. Suddenly engulfed, she was taken by the white hot folds of the flower…

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Elle Hanley

Elle Hanley is a mother and daughter, navigating relationships with the grace of an upended turtle.