
The Story of Sebahle
by Edward Bennie

Until her final canvas, Stoke had always been his mother’s masterpiece: obedient and married to the exquisite Chione. Here it was, though, in bold acrylic, Petra's crowning achievement in her signature frenzied idiom: Chione, framed against the lighthouse; a man, naked and erect. Stoke returned from the cliffs that day without Petra. Inheriting Blanches, the walls would soon start to reveal their own secrets. And just as he'd wrecked his mother's life, so it appeared she sought to wreck his.