A short story about a portrait artist and his remote sitter. 
I think I’ll start with yellow—ochre, French ultramarine, cobalt, and deep blue. But not you, transparent maroon. I hate you. 

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Hark! Thou speaketh falsely, aged simpleton...

'Tis naught but folly, this tale of the Gammon King. No monarch of rosy hue shall emerge as our salvation. Mine own faith resteth in the turning of seasons and the vastness of the cosmos. The ancient cycles be my only myths. Away with thee, thou addlepated jester!

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Music by Kevin MacLeod - The Britons

Bobby Sparkles doesn’t get out much these days—not because he doesn’t want to, but because the world wasn’t built with him in mind. The pavements are cracked, the buses are slow, and the people? Too busy slurping their enormous hot milks to notice a man in a wheelchair trying to cross the road. But when Bobby visits an eccentric engineer with a knack for turning scrap into spectacular, everything changes. 

As read by Barry Luck.