'And the Poet's pinned tragedies to their chests like ribbons' - Iamcalledchief

I was inspired by Redheadmonster's original image from the short story 'First Place Goes To' by iamcalledchief but thought maybe it needed an alternative angle to it!

I have remixed, but I cannot create the same simplistic beauty of the original image.

After reading Metaphorest's tiny story, I had an illustration pop into my head.  The idea is that this man is so obsessed with a past love that he clones her over and over again to find that same feeling.  That perfect someone he lost.  While this seems like a sad story, I sort of gave it a semi-happy ending by hinting at his success towards the end.  

Based on Metaphorest's tiny story

"The islanders adapted to their new home in the belly of the whale

Standing on tiptoes to glimpse the sky when the great beast yawned"

i drew this the other day for Tori's excellent story and regularJOE's wonderful edit!

there are some wonderful illustrations for this story already but i thought i would still put mine up, someone might find some use for it! i just love drawing wood patterns so had to do something for this- the wooden beams are ment to look like a rib cage :D

xx

She fell in love with the water,

and flew too close to the waves.