A lacuna is the word for the place where the painting isn't. Where the paint has lifted and travelled and gone — a flake of sky, the corner of a sleeve, a hand that used to hold something and now holds nothing, because the nothing is the only thing left in it. Most people, finding a lacuna, want it filled. They want the loss toned in and made to vanish so the eye can cross the picture without snagging on the hole. And there is a real art to that, to laying a fill so the join doesn't show....

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