All thought me, the ingénue*, the naïf – the girl-woman blessed by an unawareness of the evils of the world swirling around me. A simple mistress with scarlet red locks, vacant smile and impossible blue eyes.
What better way to conceal what would constitute reasons to have me burn at the stake? To feel the bundles of sticks catch fire beneath my bare, bloodied feet, to lose consciousness in the choking smoking as the flames lick and race up my dress, the devil grab my scapula** to welcome me home.
The spectacle of howling crowd scatter when the pyre is but a stump. Some, demonic in their own right, stooping to spoon the ashes into pentagon-etched receptacles to be used as ritual fetishes. So the maze of unbelief, deception, pain would a new.
My life is irreplaceable. I have no plans to vandalize my chances at a long one. No one need know I am a Necroscope.*** Other than the dead; and who were they going to tell.
The Sunday Whirl Wordle 273, and Mindlovemisery’s Menagerie’s Wordle 128 (6/7 11 16)
ingénue*: an artless, innocent, unworldly girl or young woman
scapula** :shoulder blade (or as my husband calls it “angel bone”)
Necroscope.*** :someone who can communicate with the dead
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November 7, 2016 at 7:50 pm
Very nice! But would the dead be waiting to bring her home with them? After all they only have time to kill.😉
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November 7, 2016 at 8:21 pm
Funny. They can’t be the liveliest, most animated conversationalists either.
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November 7, 2016 at 9:15 pm
Their deadpan humor is a whole different undertaking. Better with a stiff drink
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November 7, 2016 at 9:18 pm
Their jokes are cryptic, and not above ground.
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November 7, 2016 at 9:22 pm
Bare bones with a bit of spirit and a haunting punchline to leave you with a groan
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November 8, 2016 at 10:58 am
Aren’t we a week or so out of date? Is it Halloween on Arizona time?
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November 8, 2016 at 12:36 pm
It’s always time for the day of the dead
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November 8, 2016 at 1:56 pm
Good point. Zombies are still big time.
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November 8, 2016 at 7:44 pm
All hallows eve is just about us trying to be dead or like the dead.
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November 7, 2016 at 4:54 pm
That’s a good point isn’t it, who would the dead tell…..well done clever use of the words..
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November 7, 2016 at 8:20 pm
It took 2 sets to get a story going for me today.
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November 7, 2016 at 2:58 pm
Wow… so gripping. I really really like this one :-)
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November 7, 2016 at 8:18 pm
Thank you — it was interesting combining the two as I wasn’t really getting anywhere with just one.
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