Week Two | Prompt #2
Les vies d’Emilie
The mirror that hung in the east wing
carried this family’s secrets for generations.
Not proudly like a banner into battle,
Or worn and weary like the old man, bent
Beneath the load of firewood handpicked from the forest.
No, it carried the secrets, like a letter in a pocket
Of the spy on his way home from France,
With the note from the Cardinal to the King.
Or like the confessions that weigh down the priest,
As he pours another drink, sips, swallows, throws down
As much spirits as he can.
The mirror had seen the horror,
The love that was the curse, and
Sadly the curse that was loved.
For long enough, one becomes the other,
They twin and twine and dance about each other,
Snake eating snake
Never knowing the beginning or able to hope
For an end.
The Son of the Manor,
For there ever was only one. (And never a daughter.)
Doomed to fall in love.
To a child bride from the town below.
Who would become engorged with life on that first
Time, the red sheets hung forth upon the window sill.
And nine moons on,
In that room, in the east wing,
Where that mirror hung,
The son was born and again the mother perished,
Not in screams, but in a quiet silence.
And in the yard,
Fenced with knee high wrought iron,
The grave is dug,
In line with the others,
With the same stone, carved with different dates,
Here Lies Emilie de la Ville.
Here is my submission
I will participate in this one. I write Gothic fiction, sometimes thriller fiction and I incorporate recipes.
Exciting!! Can’t wait to read it!
Just got mine done! These are so inspiring, thank you for putting this together! https://open.substack.com/pub/ejmoonauthor/p/mirrors-inheritance?r=5bz2v6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
It was excellent! I am so happy you like doing them! I always loved participating in other’s challenges so I thought why not hold one? I hope I can do more!
This is my submission for week 2
https://samioneal.substack.com/p/amor-omni-vincit?r=5hi5iz
The Darkling Looking Glass
https://open.substack.com/pub/wendycockcroft/p/the-darkling-looking-glass?r=7vbsc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
this is from me, https://claramacgauffin.substack.com/p/diary-may-4
https://open.substack.com/pub/mebrady/p/beast-of-glass-and-shadow?r=tox79&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
What have I done? Another series has begun.
Les vies d’Emilie
The mirror that hung in the east wing
carried this family’s secrets for generations.
Not proudly like a banner into battle,
Or worn and weary like the old man, bent
Beneath the load of firewood handpicked from the forest.
No, it carried the secrets, like a letter in a pocket
Of the spy on his way home from France,
With the note from the Cardinal to the King.
Or like the confessions that weigh down the priest,
As he pours another drink, sips, swallows, throws down
As much spirits as he can.
The mirror had seen the horror,
The love that was the curse, and
Sadly the curse that was loved.
For long enough, one becomes the other,
They twin and twine and dance about each other,
Snake eating snake
Never knowing the beginning or able to hope
For an end.
The Son of the Manor,
For there ever was only one. (And never a daughter.)
Doomed to fall in love.
To a child bride from the town below.
Who would become engorged with life on that first
Time, the red sheets hung forth upon the window sill.
And nine moons on,
In that room, in the east wing,
Where that mirror hung,
The son was born and again the mother perished,
Not in screams, but in a quiet silence.
And in the yard,
Fenced with knee high wrought iron,
The grave is dug,
In line with the others,
With the same stone, carved with different dates,
Here Lies Emilie de la Ville.
Here is my submission
I will participate in this one. I write Gothic fiction, sometimes thriller fiction and I incorporate recipes.
Exciting!! Can’t wait to read it!
Just got mine done! These are so inspiring, thank you for putting this together! https://open.substack.com/pub/ejmoonauthor/p/mirrors-inheritance?r=5bz2v6&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
It was excellent! I am so happy you like doing them! I always loved participating in other’s challenges so I thought why not hold one? I hope I can do more!
This is my submission for week 2
https://samioneal.substack.com/p/amor-omni-vincit?r=5hi5iz
The Darkling Looking Glass
https://open.substack.com/pub/wendycockcroft/p/the-darkling-looking-glass?r=7vbsc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
this is from me, https://claramacgauffin.substack.com/p/diary-may-4
https://open.substack.com/pub/mebrady/p/beast-of-glass-and-shadow?r=tox79&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
What have I done? Another series has begun.