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"The consequences of time travel on a personal level"?

A cursed painting that changes its appearance to reveal the gruesome fate of anyone who gazes upon it, leading to a race against time to break the curse.

By AshDream_StoryPublished about a year ago 6 min read
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The oil had been hanging in the relic shop for times, its portentous presence drawing the attention of passersby. It was an oil painting oil, a portrayal of a woman with piercing eyes and a sly smile. No bone

knew who she was, but commodity about her sounded to call out to those who looked upon her.

The shop proprietor,Mr. Jenkins, had bought the oil at an estate trade times agone

. He'd been drawn to it, just like everyone differently, but he could not explain why. He'd hung it on the wall of his shop, and it had come one of his most prized effects.

But there was commodity strange about the oil. People who looked at it too long would start to feel uneasy. Some indeed claimed to have seen the woman in the oil move or blink her eyes.Mr. Jenkins dismissed these claims as gibberish, but he could not deny that there was commodity off about the oil.

One day, a youthful couple came into the shop, looking for a gift for their new home. They were incontinently drawn to the oil and askedMr. Jenkins about it. He told them its history, but advised them about the strange passions it could bring.

The couple, undeterred, decided to buy the oil anyway. They hung it in their living room, and for a while, everything sounded fine. But as time passed, they began to notice strange effects passing in their home. Doors would open and close on their own, and they heard strange whispers in the night.

One evening, the couple had a group of musketeers over for regale. As they sat in the living room, esteeming the oil, they noticed commodity odd. The woman in the oil sounded to be changing. Her eyes grew wider, and her smile turned into a minatory grin.

Suddenly, one of the guests let out a bloodcurdling laugh. They were gaping at the oil, and their face had twisted into a look of terror. The others turned to look at the oil and saw that it had changed formerly again. This time, it showed a horrible scene of a woman being boggled.

The guests snappily left, but the couple could not bring themselves to leave the oil before. They felt like they were being watched, and they knew that they had to find a way to break the curse.

They tried to probe the oil's history, but they could not find any information about it. They indeed tried to have it rated, but no bone

would take it off their hands.

As the weeks went by, the couple's health began to deteriorate. They suffered from agonies and felt like they were being followed wherever they went. They knew that they did not have important time left before the curse claimed them for good.

One night, the woman in the oil appeared in the couple's dreams. She signaled them closer, and they could not repel her call. They set up themselves transported into the oil, standing in a dark and portentous room.

The woman spoke to them in a low, menacing voice. She told them that she was a witch, cursed to live ever inside the oil. Anyone who looked upon her was doomed to suffer the same fate, trapped ever in her world of darkness.

The couple prayed the woman to release them from the curse. They promised to do whatever it took to break the spell.

The woman laughed, a sound that echoed through the room like a thousand riots. She told them that the only way to break the curse was to destroy the oil. But they had to do it before the coming full moon, or the curse would come endless.

The couple woke up, sweating and pulsing. They knew that they had to act presto. They took the oil off the wall and tried to destroy it, but it was imperishable. They tried to burn it, but the

oil wouldn't catch fire. They tried to smash it, but the frame sounded to be made of solid sword.

As the full moon approached, the couple grew more and more hopeless. They knew that they were running out of time, and that the curse would soon claim them for good.

In a last- gutter trouble, they took the oil to a original art restorer. The restorer was skeptical at first, but as soon as they saw the oil, they knew that commodity was wrong.

The restorer told the couple that the oil was cursed, and that they demanded to break the spell before it was too late. They suggested a ritual, a way to banish the curse and free the oil from its curse.

The couple agreed, and the restorer led them through the ritual. They burned savant and recited conjurations, all while holding hands and fastening their energy on breaking the curse.

As they finished the ritual, they felt a unforeseen release of energy, and the oil started to fluctuate. It glowed with a bright light, and the woman in the oil let out a bloodcurdling laugh.

also, with a unforeseen burst of energy, the oil shattered into a thousand pieces. The curse was broken, and the woman in the oil was gone ever.

The couple looked at each other in relief, realizing that they had broken the curse just in time. They hugged each other tightly, thankful to have escaped the curse's clutches.

As they left the restorer's shop, they felt like a weight had been lifted off their shoulders. They knew that they would noway forget the oil and the curse that had visited them, but they were glad to have put it behind them.

From that day on, the couple lived a happy and prosperous life, noway again encountering the accursed oil. But they knew that there were other accursed objects out there, staying to be discovered by the unwary. They knew that they had to be careful, lest they fall prey to the same fate that had chanced them.

As for the oil, it was noway seen again. Some say that it was destroyed, while others claim that it still exists, hidden down in some forgotten corner of the world, staying for its coming victim. But no bone

knows for sure, and the riddle of the accursed oil remains unsolved.

The couple noway forgot the terror they endured while under the curse of the oil. They made a oath to noway again seek out accursed objects or claw into the supernatural. rather, they concentrated on their own happiness and well- being.

Times passed, and the couple grew old together, noway forgetting the curse they had broken. But as they looked back on their lives, they knew that they had overcome a great challenge and had come out stronger for it.

As they passed down, their heritage lived on, with their children and grandchildren telling the tale of the accursed oil to anyone who would hear. And though the oil was long gone, the memory of its curse remained, a warning to all who would dare to seek out the supernatural.

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