Peace for the Beloved, Farewell for the Loveless

Summary

Fred was a Pulitzer-winning documentary photographer.

For our anniversary, I had begged him for weeks to take a portrait of me. He had simply toyed with his Leica, coolly stating that his lens only captured raw reality, never staged poses.

But then came the afternoon I cleared out his study. I stumbled onto his private cloud drive, the one he guarded like a vault. It wasn't even password-protected.

Inside, there was only a single folder labeled A Distant Her.

I clicked it open to find tens of thousands of photos. The subject of every single one was Sienna.