You wanted to know how the Basilisk kills, boy.

You wanted to know how the Basilisk kills, boy.
You wanted to breath the same air as the most vivid witching dream that bound the dream of having you to this broken chest.

You wanted to feel the poisonous dream climbing out of this mind spiraling around sensing you, infecting the air with the deepest desire of a broken one condemned as a witch, and entering you through your beautiful eyes, like wounds in your face.

You wanted to lick this soul leaking out to you. You gave us words to open up the hole deep inside, and reach out of the shadows.

You wanted to know how the Basilisk kills, boy.
But you never will, because this witch will never let it reach you.

I will swallow the poison, and breath all the darkness, and cloak the air with another witching dream of you to never leave.

But you have already left, and neither the poison nor the dream will reach you ever again.
Neither the desire nor the poison ever transformed your delicious soul.

But you woke something up.
Not just the raging death inside the beast close to us witches.
No, also the desires and dreams and hopes that the broken chest of this witch carries.

And you never stayed long enough to know.

I wish I’d told you all my stories.

I want to tell you all my storiesIt’s not that they would changeIt’s just that I would likeTo see themFormA new expressionOn your face I need to tell you all my storiesI am not sureIf they makeSenseThe way I thoughtThey do. I will tell you all my storiesThey frighten meI’m sure you won’t endureI see…

Dealing with darkness in writing

This spring afternoon is glowing pink and tastes like strong tea. It feels much too familiar, and I begin to open up.I feel far away from myself as I start to talk, to babble on about my novel. About all the things I’ve been reading about in the past 5 years. About the 17th century,…

Radical witching novel rewrites at 4 AM!

I wore the same night dress my witch used to wear to get drunk on my windowsill, when I suddenly had an idea at 4 AM. Great ideas always happen at 4 AM, remember? This one however, kept me awake for at least a week, debating it back and forth. At some point my witch…

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About the historical horror of living. Drafting my witching novel. Chasing dark, forgotten and haunted tales.

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