Paper Vows — Season 1, Episode 34: Out of the Frame

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! The frame is the last thing to come off, and it is the thing you forget is even there. A picture lives inside its frame for so long that the two become one object in the mind — you cannot, after a while, picture the painting without the gilt edge around it, the way you cannot picture a face without the body it arrives attached to. But the frame is not the painting. The frame is the thing that holds the painting up, and protects its edges, and tells the room where the picture stops and the...

Paper Vows is a serialized fake-marriage billionaire romance audiobook, written by Mia. New episodes daily.