Glass jar, your belly clattering with rusty nails, urine, and hair; glass jar, cease the crone’s chattering in the witching hours, cease her ere she drives me mad with her flights, riding me beneath the moon like a steed through dark nights all whilst laughing like a loon; trap her soul in your glass pit and keep her, warden, while I recover from this Fae fit; lift it from me ere I die. Through hearth she sought me betime, yet ’twas my heat she desired, clinging like gooey birdlime as I struggled ‘fore I tired and was confined to my bed, growing ill with chills and sweats, soaken, clammy in the head, my forehead wrinkled with frets. Dreams oft come astride fever, staying in wakeful daylight like thoughts from the Deceiver which tempt and torture and bite until we surrender, thus, and He claims a bit of soul from evils compelled in us and, bit by bit, takes us whole. So was she set in her toil like a raven in the eye of a dead man half in soil, her chattering ever nigh her raspy song of old trees during Autumn, when the wind twirls the leaves, before the freeze that brings Summer to its end. So, please jar, capture this witch— Bellarmine, confine her now! By St. Andrew’s cross, the bitch must be imprisoned somehow!
Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also. The copy in print features original watercolor illustrations.
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