Going Through the Motions
“… and as you continue to walk along the handles, you realize they’re moving faster and faster, so fast you can barely keep up. Soon, you’ll trip, fall… yes, no choice but to fall for me…”
Amber was all smiles as she watched Daniel’s body quiver and slump forward. Pocket watches sure make wonderful birthday gifts.
In the hands of someone skilled, anything can be used to induce a state of trance but there’s a reason why pocket watches are classics, right?
Easy
“Let’s see how good you are with words,” Lara said. “Name as many synonyms of hypnotized as you can starting right… now!”
“That’s easy,” Nicholas smirked. “Mesmerized, fascinated, bewitched, charmed, captivated, entranced, spellbound, enraptured, absorbed, dazzled, enthralled, magnetized, transfixed, infatuated, subdued, bedazzled, seduced, captured, controlled, domi… hmmm… domina…”
Lara nodded, silently. It was easy indeed.
As a writer, I naturally love words. Synonyms are quite fascinating because they mean the same, but not quite, offering something different just by the way the letters that comprise them are combined. When I first began writing, one of the things I enjoyed doing was jumping through the dictionary looking for more words to learn. A jump occurs in this one too: a jump from normal consciousness into trance.
The Fucktory
“And, to conclude, this is Conditioning Room 3 where the final brainwashing takes place before the fucktoys are sent off to their new owners. Any questions?” Valerie asked.
One of the investors raised his hand. “Do you have room for one more drone?”
“I have room for all of you,” she replied, locking the door.
The naughty side of me stopped by for a visit. Not content with the story, it infiltrated itself on the title as well but it’s fine. Nothing bad is going to happen behind closed doors.
Perihelion
Closer, closer… the closest I’ll ever be yet so far, like Icarus flying on a promise as words fall out of orbit.
Her voice, the sun, my own a longing shadow… will they touch, burn together, writhe in ecstasy?
Everything’s a state of mind, even the mind itself. Mine is hers, adrift in the void.
Another metaphorical piece that came to me whilst thinking of My Princess. I borrowed the title from yet another Vangelis piece – the eleventh piece from the album Rosetta., but the music didn’t inspire the writing this time around. Still, link to the video below if you wish to hear it.