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to Pass the Veil

Name: to Pass the Veil
Author: Katessa Harkey

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Paranormal Fantasy Theater Light Horror

Summary

A Shakespearean Ghost Story set in three worlds. The play's the thing - and the audience watches along with the reader. A narrative told by Vaudevillians onstage; and by some mysterious effect of All Hallow's Eve transmitted over an old radio to a pair of children listening from an old farmhouse. Death is onstage and death rides abroad, but what is Death without man? Told in narrative and in lyric poetry, a mad and fantastical tale of a Necromancer that summoned the Archangel of Death for the usual business and got more than he bargained for; and a first brush with the same for the children in the audience. Based on a Cabaret short prepared for one night only - and then gone.

Genre: Horror,Fantasy

Author: Katessa Harkey

Status: Complete

Chapters: 15

Rating: n/a

Age Rating: 16+

Ode to a Pretty Burlesque

I saw you there on stage, disrobed, and yet

you savagely retained the modest bits.

Unkind, my Lady! Pale, erotic breast

you hide coquettish, as if bound by writ...

or wrist. I see how tight constrained by lace

and bones; your heartbeat pulses, pounds, against

the pressing weight; but give me leave and place

to render aid! Alas! I find me fenced

by space, by bodies crush, by worlds apart;

by sound and silence; how illusory

the character, how well she plays the part!

Ephemeral; a goddess not for me.

How glorious the want I have for thee!

Though at show’s end you’ll want no more of me.

Let Katessa Harkey know what you thought about this chapter!

elsa_nancy

Your words paint such beautiful pictures in the reader's imagination.

9 days

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