Illustration for Ending — The Certification, from the adult visual novel The Second Sitting

It goes out wrapped in brown paper on a cart at eight and is lodged in a Ministry archive in November, and the estate comes back in January.

In March a clerk with nothing to do requests the certification, out of curiosity, and looks at seven panels and then at the plate underneath.

MalfoidThe estate has a portrait of me in an archive. My father has a photograph in a newspaper from 1997 and it is not half as honest.

The house is cold and enormous and the gallery is empty and there is a room at the top of it that nobody will ever use again.

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