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‘NO’, I yelled against the vision before closing my eyes again, squeezing so tight they hurt. The shapely bronze legs were moving toward me, closer, and closer, and this time I finally saw who it was…
Excerpt ‘Cats On The Temple Floor’ – Samira Wyld
The above excerpt is where we left off from my first instalment of ‘Cats On The Temple Floor’ – if you want a reminder READ HERE.
Continue reading “The stranger’s psychic ability left me troubled…”Twenty Past Midnight is series of short, dark, and fantastical tales.
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“Bastet is a rarity. The Goddess of the moon and of the sun. She represents the duality in all women, docile yet aggressive, nurturing yet ferocious.”
Frances Conroy – Ophelia
Something a little different for you this week. I was going through old writing files, as you do, and I came across my novel of 120,000 words ‘Cats On The Temple Floor’ still yet to see the light of publishing day, but thought I might post an excerpt of somewhere in the middle of the novel. Here’s a small blurb…
Continue reading “What happens when a backpacker finds a sacred amulet?”When Rebekah, an Australian backpacker discovers a sacred amulet in Hezekiah’s tunnel, Jerusalem, she awakens the ancient Egyptian goddess, Bast. Rebekah is viciously attacked in the Garden of Gethsemane and Bast saves her life, but claims her soul in return, linking them inextricably through Rebekah’s dreams.
Samira Wyld – Cats On The Temple Floor
‘creeping down dark hallways,
Samira Wyld – (Porcelain Doll)
While they, who lay in bed sleeping
Never, almost hear her creeping’
Dolls have been the subject of fascination and obsession throughout the centuries. Little girls obsess over playing dress up, or taking care of them as they might when they grow up and become a mother. Is this culture of dolls a part of the priming process of how or what young girls are expected to do when they grow up?
It’s an interesting subject which I might go into in another post, but for now, I will focus on the fascination and/or obsession with dolls, particularly in Hollywood.
Dolls are everything from spectacularly beautiful, stick thin obsessive and unrealistic portrayals of young women such as the Barbie, or the subject of something spooky and scary. The horror stories that feature child ghosts in hallways holding a bedraggled teddy bear or a doll.
Continue reading “Dolls… are they a fascination, or an obsession?”‘Falling below the sea, the captain turns the helm of a ship going nowhere, in a realm outside of me.’
Samira Wyld
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