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Bone White
by Alyson Faye 

Paint me white-faced

Lacquered lips so red

Shade my eyes ebony

and Momma says, I could

pass for dead.

.

Blink, and you’ll glimpse me

in the darkling dusk, and

the gravestone greys

flitting, eternally young,

dancing on the buried

and their old, gnarly bones.

.

The ravens know us,

Momma and me.

The foxes smell us

for our scents are sprayed

on every tree.

.

The nights are delicious,

long and luscious,

the days a blur of

damp, decay and mulch.

.

‘Am I pretty, Momma?

Like I was before?’ I beg.

I can’t feel Momma’s kiss

or her fingers’ gentle touch  –

not ever any more.

.

Momma nods, and sings,

whilst she paints my face:-

blood red

bone white

eyes black as night…

.

Fiction © Copyright Alyson Faye
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Alyson Faye:

The Lost Girl & Spindleshanks

The Lost Girl
A nailed-up door. An inheritance which comes with a ghost. A missing girl. A fifty-year-old mystery. Parapsychologist Berkley Osgood is hired to investigate. What he uncovers reveals secrets the living want to hide and the dead will never forgive.

Spindleshanks
Adam is having nightmares about a skeletal shadow figure, who he calls Spindleshanks. Soon his whole class are sharing the same nightmare. Adam’s dad, Rob, knows that Spindleshanks can’t be real. But is he? One terrible night Rob has to face his son’s nightmare creature and fight for his son’s life. What would you sacrifice to have your child back safe?

“A decent two-for-one. Alyson Faye brings the engaging and eerie in equal measure.” CC Adams – horror / dark fiction author

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