She planned it during the
last eight weeks of summer
strategically etching it
into her palm.
Sinewy silk threads
buried deep into
her skin, reminding
her that mercury
was in retrograde.
Above its orbit sat
her heart, thinning
with deep breaths of
oxygen and light.
Her heart leapt out
of her chest, and there
was her mind, alone and
desiring power. The head
was empty and small.
And looking down, she saw
her short her life line
and broke down, for she
could not go through.
Author notes
Based on a freewrite, "A Killer in the Making."
Decided to trace her emotions through her hand,
as if someone could understand her through palm reading.
Do you believe (or trust) in astrology or horoscopes?
Comments
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I think what you have managed to do here is get inside the head of a psychopath, or at the very least someone whose thought processes are not rational. Having done so, you have conveyed to the reader the "other-worldliness" of those thought processes. The astrology is almost irrelevant - the fact that the person you have got inside thinks that such things are totally significant is. Well done.
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