A Black Cat Moment : Faith and Fire

For Bridget Bishop Salem’s demonic mobocracy hides behind the mask of melancholy. The receipt of her married life had been intertwined between faith and fire. However, it was Satan who baptized her faith through fire. God commanded: “You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eatContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment : Faith and Fire”

A Black Cat Moment: A Letter from Feathers to Her Soulmate, Part 2

Printed Permission Granted by His Majesty Pluto My Orpheus, Your love for me was so deep. Down to Hades to save me you traveled from the upper crusty world, that place where our brief marriage had soon ended. We did not have Hymen’s eternal blessing. Or, did we? Yet, unlike those two lovers whose crossedContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment: A Letter from Feathers to Her Soulmate, Part 2”

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

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”

A Black Cat Moment

Dear Karmic Lover, You’ve been silent lately. What’s the matter? Why are you hiding? Cat’s got your tongue? Huh? I can’t hear you. Don’t want to hear you. Don’t want to look at you. No. It’s not that. It’s your face I can’t forgive. Each time I’m forced to see your face, my soul continuesContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment”

A Black Cat Moment: An Urgent Letter to the Spying Soulmate Part I

You broke the soul contract. You know, the one you manifested a few years ago. You know, the one time you had asked the universe with a broken heart to bring to you your perfect partner. Feathers. Remember her? You manifested her. You let her go. Remember? All that spell work you did. All thoseContinue reading “A Black Cat Moment: An Urgent Letter to the Spying Soulmate Part I”