text on image is title and snippet of work.
title: a magister's confessional.
body:
“Tell me a story about you. Not about your family. Not about your siblings… but about you. Have it explain who you are. Tell me about your love of painting or your skill in music.”
Tell me about your first love.
I hooked onto that last part… The prompt originally sat as boring to me at first, but then I thought about it. I could tell a better story about love and loss better than any of the people in this room right now. You must come to the thought that each story you receive will be the same—someone owns a garden. A stranger lost his cat. Another fell in love with opera singer they have no chance with. One of these will be a lie, but mine won’t.
title: royal white knights
body:
I had never seen trees until I was well into my adulthood. I wasn’t allowed into the cities of the wealthy until I had proven myself worthy by the eyes of the Hidden. I still wasn’t worthy, no matter how high up I was to them—I wasn’t allowed. And yet, here I stand and the flowers here are beautiful. All around me sat fountains of clean water and trees filled with birds singing to the never-ending blue above. I was never allowed to grace the city of the clouds, just stuck in the perpetual fog and smoggy streets of Zion until the day I die.
But she saved me. Called me her “Champion” as she pulled me from the line of Hunters with a glistening smile on her face. And they fought her, calling me nothing but “a two-bit child who fights for scraps.” She ignored them, her warm hands at my cheeks and eyes sparkling under the dirty lights. “You will be my Champion,” she said, “and I will make you perfect.”
I could hear sky cars whir by standing in her garden. The hedges before me kept them invisible to world beyond her home. They were riddled in vines laced with flowers and unlit decorative lights, patio furniture up against it for the “flair” of it all, I’d suppose. And yet, it was better than the dormitory back in Zion.
spent some time updating my site with some old works. o7
1 - cvnnbl.neocities.org/blog/02122019
2 - cvnnbl.neocities.org/blog/02172019
main page: cvnnbl.neocities.org/blog/
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