Category Archives: Darkness

The Figure Eight

Scene III. [The Bar’s Ladies Loo.] Enter BLACK CAT, sola. BLACK CAT His Majesty thinks I may be weak willed about supporting Feathers’ empty efforts at wanting to love her soulmate. He’s wrong. This common room I thought was just a line of ordinary stalls. It looks and feels like a silky lounge. What aContinue reading “The Figure Eight”

The Figure Eight

[Scene II. The Front Bar.] PLUTO .Eciton ton did I .on, lleW ?dloC BLACK CAT I see. Well– PLUTO .dnob rieht no tcelfer ot emit peed etamluos reh dna srehtaeF evig lliw tahT. suirattigaS ni eb lliw thginot noom ehT. BLACK CAT Yes, Your Majesty. Tonight there’s a Strawberry Moon in Sagittarius. [Aside to herself.Continue reading “The Figure Eight”

The Figure Eight

[Dramatis Personae PLUTO BLACK CAT FEATHERS VENUS BLACK MOON LILITH ENKI Scene: Outer Space; The Deep Atlantic Ocean] [ACT I] [Scene I. At Some Swanky Bar in Outer Space. The Front Bar.] Enter PLUTO counterclockwise, alone, and approaches BLACK CAT. PLUTO !Uoy s’ti BLACK CAT What? PLUTO !Otulp, em s’ti BLACK CAT [Aside to herself]Continue reading “The Figure Eight”

A Black Cat Moment: A Letter from Feathers to Her Soulmate, Part 1

Printed Permission Granted by His Majesty Pluto To My Soulmate, Erinnerst du dich? Lively night birds–wild and free. Erinnerst du dich? Der Potsdamer Platz bei Nacht. Erinnerst du dich? Your brute cologne would melt me. Erinnerst du dich? Sharing palace sweets of Brach. Erinnerst du dich? Swaying, swinging, jazzing, kissing. Erinnerst du dich? The floor–myContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment: A Letter from Feathers to Her Soulmate, Part 1”

A Black Cat Moment

The simplified story showed southerners fought for economic preservation while northerners fought for economic expansion. Eventually, the curse of slavery enmeshed in the sins of those grey and blue ancestors would settle the score at its final resting place–Gettysburg. Their dead flesh received no eulogy, no casket, no white lilies, no heirlooms, and no formalContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment”

A Black Cat Moment

Dear Spying Soulmate, No. That soul contract between you and Feathers will not and cannot be resurrected. You see, the soul contract was originated from and by God, the One of the Heavens and of the Underworlds–the Creator. Your lesson was to have been freed from the chains she found you in, to which youContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment”

A Black Cat’s Black Moment

Dear Pluto, My old claws curled up. My pink lips blew bubbles. You knew I had seen too much of the sunlight’s piercing white gleam as I tried to reach to the top of that bright white ocean foam where Feathers lives. I wouldn’t have been able to continue breathing if your backward dark handContinue reading “A Black Cat’s Black Moment”