Within

Posted on October 25, 2013 | 23 Comments

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.

 

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23 responses to “Within”

  1. paulmclem | October 25, 2013 at 9:48 am | Reply

    Can always rely on Christine for lush prose and a new word 🙂

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  2. theinnerzone | October 25, 2013 at 10:12 am | Reply

    Beautiful words and a new one for me too! Lovely entry.

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  3. Valerie | October 25, 2013 at 10:22 am | Reply

    Prayers, and sandalwood-and claws-I love where you took this prompt! Very nice!

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  4. jannatwrites | October 25, 2013 at 10:25 am | Reply

    I was thinking how beautiful this was…until the claws came out. Yikes!

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  5. ym1611 | October 25, 2013 at 10:55 am | Reply

    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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  6. Grace Black | October 25, 2013 at 11:12 am | Reply

    Wonderful! Just lovely.

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  7. Lance | October 25, 2013 at 12:29 pm | Reply

    This was beautiful and frightening. How did you do that?

    loved it

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  8. Linda Vernon | October 26, 2013 at 11:15 am | Reply

    Oh wow. I really want to read this story, Christine. I hope you’ll write it!

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  9. steph | October 26, 2013 at 11:44 am | Reply

    As always, Christine, your 33 words are bewitching. Just great!

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  10. deanabo | October 26, 2013 at 2:52 pm | Reply

    This is really good. Your description allowed me to see the story well.

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  11. Ann Bennett | October 27, 2013 at 8:45 am | Reply

    Phylactery, a new word and pretty cool. Interesting response on the prompt.

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  12. Björn Rudberg (brudberg) | October 27, 2013 at 12:36 pm | Reply

    Love new words… might borrow that one… Phylactery

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  14. Ivy (Mommy Dourest) | October 27, 2013 at 2:17 pm | Reply

    Love the new word, love the piece. Nicely done! 🙂

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  15. C.C. | October 27, 2013 at 5:59 pm | Reply

    Your word choices are beautiful…”the sandalwood scent of her skin” scent shivers down my spine!

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  16. C.C. | October 27, 2013 at 6:00 pm | Reply

    Your word choices are beautiful…”the sandalwood scent of her skin” sent shivers down my spine!

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  17. Rachael | October 27, 2013 at 7:11 pm | Reply

    Beautiful & creepy all at once!

    This is the third entry that’s caused me to use Google today!

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  18. trifectawriting | October 27, 2013 at 9:04 pm | Reply

    I just watched The Possession and this reminds me of it. Creepy.

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  19. KymmInBarcelona | October 28, 2013 at 5:48 am | Reply

    So lovely. ❤

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  20. Cameron | November 23, 2013 at 4:23 pm | Reply

    Oh, my favorite of these so far… so subtle and gorgeous. Kinda like the author 😉

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