My love gave me a silver phylactery, filled with prayers and the sandalwood scent of her skin. At night when it clicks open and desire consumes me, I don’t even feel the claws.
This post was made in response to the Trifecta Writing Challenge weekend prompt, in which the editors gave us this assignment:
Your Trifextra challenge is to write 33 words on a beast in an unusual place. No swamps or forests or caves, we really want you to take your beast out of its comfort zone.
Christine Hanolsy 
Oh, my favorite of these so far… so subtle and gorgeous. Kinda like the author 😉
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Aww, you are too sweet!
I rather like this one myself. It felt a little sexy and a little scary. 🙂
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So lovely. ❤
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I just watched The Possession and this reminds me of it. Creepy.
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Beautiful & creepy all at once!
This is the third entry that’s caused me to use Google today!
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Your word choices are beautiful…”the sandalwood scent of her skin” sent shivers down my spine!
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Your word choices are beautiful…”the sandalwood scent of her skin” scent shivers down my spine!
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Love the new word, love the piece. Nicely done! 🙂
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Beautiful!!
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Love new words… might borrow that one… Phylactery
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Phylactery, a new word and pretty cool. Interesting response on the prompt.
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This is really good. Your description allowed me to see the story well.
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As always, Christine, your 33 words are bewitching. Just great!
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Oh wow. I really want to read this story, Christine. I hope you’ll write it!
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This was beautiful and frightening. How did you do that?
loved it
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Wonderful! Just lovely.
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I wouldn’t have guessed it would be a creeppy ending *shudder* To not even feel the claws– that’s scarier than anything else!
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I was thinking how beautiful this was…until the claws came out. Yikes!
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Thanks, Janna! I was trying to meld the abstract and the literal here. 🙂
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Prayers, and sandalwood-and claws-I love where you took this prompt! Very nice!
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Beautiful words and a new one for me too! Lovely entry.
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Can always rely on Christine for lush prose and a new word 🙂
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I’m a sucker for beautiful words. Phylactery is one of my latest favorites. Kind of hard to work into casual conversation, though. 😉
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