Why witches have infectious eyes

Witches have infectious eyes
because a soul is leaking out
because witching eyes have opened up
and daydreams have been dropping through
turning into raindrops
left on flowers set to grow.

Witches have infectious eyes
because someone has been breathing
the air now filled with things unspoken
that left a soul so quiet and bleeding.

Witches have infectious eyes
because someone caught a daydream from her view
a dream that changed the way the blood ran through their veins
and burned up everything inside.

And no ones knows
if any of those burning thoughts
would have ever been
without those witching eyes.

Layla was gigging way too much now. „Even in my time it was a bold theory that daydreams could have poisoned the land – but better play safe, and lock away the woman with the needles, and make her confess anyway.“ And her fingers played around a scar on her wrist where a big part of skin had once been removed.

Unloved tale

OnceWhen someone had herShe was almost lovedBut then this someone thought:”I can’t be allShe’d ever known”And he let her go. And She ranShe ran too fastWhen she ranShe ran too far ThenShe was found againBy another strange manWho loved her recklesslyLove turned to painAnd carved his sinInto her skin And she fledShe fled too fastWhen…

Just a haunted girl scaring her friends – Writing update!

Intrigued. And quite as bit terrified.Those were the exact same words I got as feedback from my friends whom I’d recently handed the first pages of the witching novel to. Seems like I’ve accomplished my task, right? I’m the haunted girl scaring all her friends!No, but really. It felt as if I was understood through…

Tale about the softest secret

This tale is about a girl I once knew. This girl could not go anywhere without her lovely white shoes. Made of cotton, their rim did not reach her ankles, giving away how thin they were. Their soles were so slim, she felt the earth with every step. Those shoes she needed so dearly were…

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

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