Forsaken

A beautiful house, a loving wife, two kids, a dog, and a professorship teaching art restoration at the local university. You've got it all. On the cusp of autumn a mysterious painting arrives. No name. No date. No signature or frame. Only a note that reads: Here in art, denial. It is a disturbing work of grotesque perfection; two children with cruel eyes, a window onto an endless field, and a dying tree on top of a hill. A work of art...that changes with each viewing.