Afton Family Portrait Novels & Stories

A man and a woman with a boy of about six or seven, standing in front of the water. The boy looked at the camera with a serious expression I recognized immediately. "That's you," I said. "Yes," Jonathan replied from behind me. He had passed Nora to Anna briefly to settle her in the blue room. "I was six in the family portrait. ." "You look the same," I commented. "I'm told that expression runs in the family." "It’s very specific," I said. "It says: I am tolerating this photograph under protest." "I was not a child who enjoyed having my photograph taken," he said.