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Her Visage (challenge from Michael)
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Her Visage (challenge from Michael) |
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DreamEvil Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396 |
a cancerous face full of living decay. Her visit induces nightmarish cries, on a childhood that sleep fills with dismay. A lurid visage grotesquely decayed, her face gleams wet with the rawness of rot. Dripping pestilence leaves the child dismayed, fearing the nightmare in which he is caught. Empty, soulless pits gaze out upon the child, drowning him with a glare of stygian night. Horror lends allure to this thing reviled, becoming a curse to Medusa's sight. She appears in phantasmagoric dreams, unpredictably hunting down her prey. Knowing her face to be more than it seems, trapped in visions the child begins to pray. Dessicated lips peel back in a grin, dripping putrescent saliva in ropes. She is mother to every deadly sin, savagely devouring all the boy's hopes. A barbed-wire scream tears out of his throat, waking him to the terrors of the night. Behind his eyes the nightmare seems to float, as desperately he lunges for the light. Once again Lady Despair came to call, just as she would for nearly sixteen years. Over the boy's life she cast a dark pall, becoming matriarch to all his fears. ©1999 DreamEvil ------------------ Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~. DreamEvil© [This message has been edited by DreamEvil (edited 09-23-1999).] |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
Quite a horrid tale cast here Dream. It is magnificently spun with the perfect words to descibe such a ghastly occurance! "drowning him with a glare of stygian night." Masterfully written! It just sends creepy pictures of hellspawn flitting through the dark crevices of my brain! |
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Dark Angel Member Patricius
since 1999-08-04
Posts 10095 |
Wow Soul-Bro, This is brilliant,Well written enjoyed the read  ------------------ What comes from the heart goes to the heart. Samuel Coleridge |
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Michael
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-13
Posts 7666California |
Jeeze, Dream, I give you a simple psychotic phrase and you turn it into the Mother of all Darkness. Awesome piece here, you have more than met the challenge. ------------------ Michael Anderson And so, being young and dipt in folly I fell in love with melancholy, But dreams - of those who dream as I, Aspiringly, are damned, and die: EAP |
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Alwye
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Member Elite
since 1999-06-16
Posts 3850In the space between moments |
Awesome dream, awesome..a truly gruesome, disturbing tale. You cover both ends of the spectrum (this being apposed to your beautiful love poetry) wonderfully, my friend. ------------------ *Krista Knutson* Mockery is a form of ignorance; silence, a form of wisdom. -- Daniel L. Miller |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Now I can't go to bed! I'll have nightmares!  |
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Lucie Senior Member
since 1999-06-20
Posts 1077Houston |
Dessicated lips peel back in a grin, dripping putrescent saliva in ropes. EEEEEWWWWWWW HAHA. |
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JennyLee Senior Member
since 1999-09-01
Posts 1461Northwestern, NJ. |
Really great Dream Evil... I found the last stanza so vivid and lurid. Another good one !! Jenny |
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DreamEvil Member Elite
since 1999-06-22
Posts 2396 |
She has not paid me a memorable visit in quite some time, still I rememember her visage in perfect clarity. ------------------ Now and forever my heart hears ~one voice~. DreamEvil© |
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