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Witchcraft at Midnight
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Posted:Nov 10, 2022 11:38 am
Last Updated:Nov 10, 2022 10:19 pm 4803 Views
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”Kiss someone who makes you feel the magic in your bones. Who makes you wonder how can someone who looks like witchcraft at midnight .. taste so holy.”
Tonight I’m gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I’ll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory
Just when I think I’m over her
This broken heart will mend
I hear her name and I have to cry
The tears come down again
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusing to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
I count the stars in a summer sky
That fall without a sound
And then pretend that you can’t hear
These teardrops coming down
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusing to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
Tonight I’m gonna break away
Just you wait and see
I’ll never be imprisoned by
A faded memory
It happens all the time
This crazy love of mine
Wraps around my heart
Refusing to unwind
Ooh-hoo, crazy love
Ah ha
Tonight I’m gonna break away
Crazy Love
Poco
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Saudade
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Posted:Nov 8, 2022 2:24 pm
Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 7:21 pm 4186 Views
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Nostalgia
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Posted:Nov 8, 2022 2:20 pm
Last Updated:Mar 18, 2023 3:43 pm 4190 Views
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Dear Friend:
I miss you more than I can bear. It feels like I have heartburn from eating too much spice .. all the time .. but I know it’s just heartache from missing you. You may be miles away and the possibility of being together, parallel universes and light years apart .. but I can’t stop thinking about you, about the times we spent together. Our time together was brief but perhaps it’s better that way. I remember every detail about the moments we spent together, remember verbatim the jokes you told me, the stories .. everything. And I can’t help replaying those memories - on the train, in class, while I’m supposed to be studying. I can’t listen to Pandora anymore because every song is about love .. and every song reminds me of you.
We live in worlds apart - and that’s the problem with summer .. trips and internships bring you into different worlds that just seem to be detours on the way to real life. But I must admit, I’d leave everything behind to be with you if you cared more .. and perhaps in this day and age it wouldn’t be ridiculous and foolhardy. To be honest, I don’t know why I’m still so stuck in summer. Thinking about you has been so much wasted time .. so distracting for my studies when it’s most important. And besides, its been months since we had a real conversation. I should be mad at you but I can’t help but think how well we click, how perfect I think you are for me. It’s funny though because I never believed in Romeo and Juliet, in love at first sight .. or in soul mates. Now my heart aches because we would have been amazing together. But really, I should be so mad at you. Mad for telling me you liked me .. it would have never occurred to me to be something other than friends if you hadn’t. Mad for telling me when there was nothing either of us could really do about it. Mad for leading me on. When were you going to tell me that you got back with your ex-girlfriend? Mad for telling me you liked me .. when it seems you want to marry your girlfriend. Mad because you are getting in the way of me leading my life. You are so much wasted time.
We are just friends now. And I hate that we are still friends, that you still talk to me, though always briefly. I think it keeps me hoping that someday we might be together. But even if that impossibility occurs, a relationship with you will be fraught with its own thorns (hello ex-girlfriends! .. why do you have so goddamn many?) But I hate the idea of losing you as a friend even more because let’s face it, you are a good one. So I am still friends with you, hoping and praying that with everyday I think of you a little less. I know it will happen. I know one day I will look at you as just a friend .. really, sincerely, genuinely. But right now I miss you and I want you, and I can’t help thinking to myself - goddamit, we could be so sublimely happy together.
I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I am still stuck in summer.
XX
Dear Self,
It’s winter now. Get over it.
Le Love
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Home
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Posted:Nov 8, 2022 1:59 pm
Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 7:21 pm 4082 Views
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”We’re all just walking each other home.”
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The Haunting of Hill House
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Posted:Nov 3, 2022 6:26 pm
Last Updated:Nov 4, 2022 7:25 am 4079 Views
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”No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.”
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson
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Cast a Deadly Spell
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Posted:Nov 3, 2022 6:09 pm
Last Updated:Nov 4, 2022 7:30 am 4158 Views
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And so it was that Kat found herself dancing closer to the devil than she ever intended to get (at least in this lifetime) .. and the spell he wove was proving to be more powerful than even she had bargained for. Balancing precariously on the very brink of surrender, Kat closed her eyes and allowed his touch to take her to places she had never thought possible. His hands became possessive as they explored the uncharted depths of her passion .. and he smiled in wicked delight knowing just how close he was to claiming her very soul.
Kat sighed with pleasure as his fingertips traced the soft outline of her mouth .. a gentle caress intended to tease, enticing her to yield to the temptation that now threatened to engulf her entire body. His eyes filled with a dark passion as he drank in the exquisite charm of her beauty .. his fingers coming to rest and delicately linger upon her bottom lip until she quivered in anticipation of the moment. And when his lips found hers - the world exploded until Kat could feel herself giving in, melting beneath his touch in the seconds before his mouth claimed hers and his tongue tasted her sweetness. She surrendered to the longing that now poured over her like a tidal wave, as helpless as a house of cards in a hurricane. The kiss was dark and delicious, filled with the strawberry sweet taste of magic. But underneath it all she could sense something else .. something so out of place and so wrong that it terrified her completely. Kat felt his hunger as though it were a living thing and his desire awakened her senses to the animal within.
And so it was his kiss that finally sent Kat over the edge, pushing her hard until she could feel herself falling, slipping quickly beneath the fine lines of reality to that familiar place where Sariel once ruled her world. She felt the panic rise within her as she realized she could no longer fight his will and she knew she was trapped .. defenceless and at the mercy of his ruthless desires. But she also knew now what he had come for and why - and her heart skipped a beat. He could no longer hide it from her - for she knew what he was. No longer could he mask it behind the pretense of love .. because in Hell there was no place to hide! Kat fought hard to claw her way back to the light .. but the longer she spent in his realm, the more difficult it became to find her way home. Time was running out as she struggled against the Devil’s will, and as the air gradually disappeared her breathing became labored. Minutes passed by like hours and a heavy silence fell until there was nothing left. The struggle was over, all the fight was gone - and Kat knew with certainty that no saviour was going to find her now. Her eyes became heavy as death approached and Sariel reached out from the abyss to steal her immortal soul.
A single tear was all there was to mark the end. The darkness had won the moment love had bowed its head in defeat - and Kat mourned its death. But just as she was about to lay bare her soul, letting the darkness win .. a clock began to chime from somewhere in the distance. Each discordant note resonated with optimism and hope, penetrating through the ether, reaching the place where the last of her awareness resided. And in the vast stillness of the void, another joined in and then another until her whole world was filled with the sound of clocks as they struck the midnight hour. The notes expanded to fill her consciousness and she reached out blindly, trying desperately to hold onto anything that would save her. It was midnight and the unmasking was about to begin. Kat knew now that it was the clocks that would be her salvation - and her soul energy followed the sound of the chimes - allowing them to draw her back to the safety of the earth plane. The only place where the Devil’s power could be contained.
The moment Kat’s soul entered her body .. her eyes flew open and she gasped, her lungs burning as they made contact with the sweet air and she could breathe again. Indeed she would have immediately fallen to the floor had Sariel not stood before her, holding her so tightly that his fingers left the tender flesh on her arms bruised and swollen. And she could tell from the dark storm brewing in his eyes that he was more than just angry at having been denied once again. She had escaped him this time but there was still a chance for him to win - IF he was clever enough, There was still one card left that he hadn’t played and now he was given no choice but to lay it down. All at once from across the room a familiar voice yelled “Unmask” and fear rose from somewhere deep within her heart, wrapping itself around her like a second skin. She fought the urge to see him for what he really was by turning her head away .. but something much stronger made her turn back. Sariel smiled at Kat as he reached up to slowly remove the ebony mask that had covered his face for most of that evening. It was a smile so hideously charming it would have done Satan proud. And then the mask was off and Kat stood anxiously before him trembling .. expecting the worst .. but finding only the beautiful face of the man she still loved. Oh God how her heart ached to be so near to him, to have his hands caress her so gently and with such care. And in that very moment, words were rendered useless. This was the man she loved .. the one she would always love and the one she would die for! And she ached for him with everything that she had. Ached to feel him deep inside her as they moved together in the dark. Sariel could sense how close she was to giving in and that’s when he played his final card. For you see he knew exactly what it would take to have her completely in his power .. mind, body - and soul. And at long last he uttered the words that he knew were like kryptonite to her captured heart .. “mein tumse pyaar karthi hoon. I love you Kat.”
~~ Isabella
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Between Worlds
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Posted:Oct 28, 2022 10:01 pm
Last Updated:Apr 29, 2024 7:21 pm 4101 Views
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”The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”
Edgar Allan Poe
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Set the Night to Music
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Posted:Oct 28, 2022 9:45 pm
Last Updated:Oct 28, 2022 9:50 pm 4012 Views
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Kat was now enjoying herself quite thoroughly, becoming lost in the moment so completely that at first she was not aware of the subtle shift in the air around her. The music was still playing - and as incredible as it seemed, she was still exactly where she wanted to be .. held tight in the seductive embrace of the man with the golden mask, Kat was also well on her way to becoming quite drunk from the champagne she had been sipping all evening. It seemed to have a very powerful effect on her, almost as if its potency had been doubled by the very atmosphere in the room itself. Although she may not have been aware of it on a physical level, Kat definitely sensed the change on a subconscious one - and without comprehending fully what she was doing, she tried hard to suppress the feelings of unease that threatened to engulf her. It was almost as though something was toying with her .. an invisible presence trying to make itself known to her in a very visible way. Kat closed her eyes hoping that whatever was trying to find her would grow weary and move on .. losing interest when it realized that she really wasn’t in the mood to play games after all.
Just then Nazem pulled her close to whisper something deliciously naughty in her ear. But to Kat’s surprise it wasn’t the voice of her new found Romeo that she heard speaking with such sinful and wicked intentions - but rather a voice she knew much more intimately than that. A voice that had caressed not only her body but also her mind .. engaging her undying passion during those long nights of sweet surrender when they had made love by the shores of the Arabian Sea. And she knew his name but she dare not say it .. and she knew what he could do but she dare not think it .. and as much as she fought to remain aloof, she began to move to the dark rhythm of his heart.
The music was still playing and the people around them still dancing, oblivious to everything but the drama of their own little worlds .. when without a word, Nazem came to a stop right in the middle of the dance floor. Kat was puzzled at his strange behaviour and as she opened her mouth to scold him for spoiling the mood, she suddenly saw the reason why. Standing right in front of her was the most beautiful man she had ever laid eyes on. He was absolutely exquisite and couldn’t have been more perfectly suited for her had she ordered him out of a catalogue. Yet there was something about him that seemed so annoyingly familiar. It was as though she was having deja vu but a thousand times over. Looking at him now, Kat couldn’t help but feel an underlying connection. A connection that lay somewhere between the mystery he wrapped around himself like a cloak and the passionate desires he awakened from the deepest, darkest places in her soul. It was a connection that had existed long before they had crossed paths here tonight. Something powerful and impossible to ignore. Chemistry in its most basic form. Kat tried to speak but could find no voice. Instead she stared spellbound, enthralled by the elaborate designs on his ebony mask and the hidden promise that she saw reflected in his black eyes. His gaze was dark and seductive, hypnotizing her until she was content to drown in its killing beauty. Indeed Kat would have given her very life if only she could see herself reflected in his eyes forever.
In the very next moment the stranger extended his hand, bowing gracefully before her. “Please .. may I have this dance my lady?” And it was all Kat could do to control the frantic beating of her heart as he took her hand in his. He kissed it gently, never taking his eyes from the small pulse that beat softly at the base of her throat. And that’s when Kat remembered Nazem. She looked around only to find him standing a few feet behind her, a strange expression on his handsome face. There was something different about him now and Kat could sense that he was more than a little annoyed with the way this stranger had intruded on their private moment. She could almost see the anger boiling just beneath the surface as the two men locked eyes, an unspoken hatred passing between them. And then Nazem did something that she would never forget. He turned quickly towards her, reaching out as he did so to place her small delicate hand into the one belonging to the dark stranger. It was all Kat could do to keep herself under control as Nazem walked away and the handsome stranger moved in to stake his claim.
Kat could feel the warmth of his hand as it rested heavily (almost possessively) on her hip .. and in one smooth movement his other arm reached out to encircle her waist. Now she was in his arms and she could no longer control her sinful thoughts. They were so close she could feel his breath fanning the softness of her cheek. Her breasts pressed hard against him and as their bodies melted into one, there was no denying how perfectly they fit together - almost as if they had been made for each other. As the pair moved slowly in time to the music, Kat began to relax against him, turning her head just enough so that she could take in the incredible scent of his soft, brown skin. She closed her eyes, letting sweet emotion run free, wondering to herself just how it was possible that he was already having such an effect on her. They had only just met, and yet the way they were connecting made her feel as though they had known each other all their lives.
Something hard and firm was pressing tantalizingly against Kat’s leg and she could feel the wetness begin to spread when his lips brushed softly against her neck and he began to nibble, enjoying the exotic sweetness of her skin. She closed her eyes and her breathing grew heavier as she gave in to the madness that he was unleashing within her mind. She felt intoxicated .. torn apart by raw emotion - and she could feel herself falling deeper .. deeper than she ever thought possible in mortal love. Kat was on the verge of surrender, ready to give herself completely until the moment when she became a part of him - a part that he could never forget no matter how hard he tried.
And as the music played on, Kat wondered just what it would take for her to carve her name on his soul .. thereby becoming his one true love, for all eternity.
~~ Isabella
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Midnight Hour
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Posted:Oct 28, 2022 11:16 am
Last Updated:Oct 28, 2022 1:04 pm 3977 Views
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The candle winked out and it was dark. I remember that now because when I met Sariel all I could feel was this incredible light and the warmth of his beautiful black eyes upon me. He stood silent, arms at his side, a rare combination of softness and strength, unyielding, and yet certain in the knowledge that he held the seeds of my temptation within his wings.
What spell .. what unearthly incantation had summoned such a remarkable creature to my side? .. calling forth this Angel from the realms of darkness. I searched frantically for an answer - but as usual there was none to be found. With an unwavering certainty I knew that another moment in his presence would send me tumbling headlong into the abyss .. caught somewhere between what is and what was to be. Spiraling ever downwards into insanity as Sariel kept his solitary watch over my soul.
Fear .. primal and raw began to overtake reason and I wanted to run .. to escape this “man” who seemed more than capable of reading my every thought.
“No, don’t run” he said. “Stay.” And his voice was beautiful (just as I knew it would be). Soft and seductive. The sound of a summer wind over empty dunes, dark and clear as the desert sky. And some quality of tone, some intangible pull that made me feel I’d ache forever if I didn’t answer him .. kept me at his side.
~~ Isabella
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