The Unfinished Thirteenth Painting

“When I finish the thirteenth painting, he’ll kill me.

But every stroke of paint is mixed with the blood of his victims.”

As she smiled and breathed her last, the second personality appeared on the back of the canvas, writing one final line in blood:

“The thirteenth painting is complete.

I killed the ‘Corpse Stitcher,’ and I killed the self inside me that was living off you.”