Tuesday, November 11, 2025

The woman in the night gown May 3, 2015

  

In my dreams, she is the woman in the night gown that greets me at the arch door, her hands clutching the candle stick as hot wax drips down onto her long fingers, her dark hair framing her serious face, the almost evil twist of her lips, the night gown barely covering the swell of her breasts as she request me to wait just inside the door, when I am anxious to go all the way in, the candle already half gone, clutched by trembling hands, she telling me to wait, not to come inside, not yet as the wax drips, leaving a trail of tear across her knuckles, not yet, she tells me, but soon, very soon, yet only if I behave.


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