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Abaddon’s Angel
by Marge Simon
It begins like a peyote dream, a landscape of Artaud’s desert overcome by ice. There, rocks form anthropomorphic visions that change in passing shadows and astral kings replenish their source. They reintegrate an animistic era, a future present which seems as real as the freezing sand beneath your bare feet in this infertile wilderness. In such a world, nothing can change without making contact.
Distant music beckons you to follow. In the bed of a dead ocean the Earth Mother dances, her transparent form oscillates in shimmering waves to a reggae euphony; she is Abaddon’s angel, a skeletal Venus through icy vapors. You are in an intense dream of images, where each metamorphosis of form is attuned to a transmutable mirage where you can span the abyss of oblivion, and from which there is no escape.
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Fiction © Copyright Marge Simon
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
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An awesome story.
this is such a mesmerising piece! the underlying ominosity isn’t tangible, can’t be seen either but you’ll feel the hairs on the back of your neck stand! reminds me of selkies and sirens and Greek goddesses all at once – their presence in invisibility and potency. I love this!
Such luscious language carrying a mesmerising menace – great work