Non-Erotic PoetryEpistolary Therapy 4Brite,
I don't know how much you know. I was exhausted and confused under the rule of the Sharif de Sade. Tell the Wordsmith there's no ill will. I'd like to think I misunderstood his messages.
I'm writing to thank you for your kindness. I felt so much joy in the years we spent as a team. I still respect your skill with weaponry. I always felt as if you were kin to me.
But, there's the lingering matter of Sade. I lost my left eye in the last battle. It isn't becoming. I wear an X patch over the cloudy orb. And I've put some clothes on. A black corset and jeans. Kept the rosary and ceremonial dagger. Took the bone out of my nose. My hair looks the same.
Here at the home for reformed Sadeian women, they keep telling me it wasn't my fault.
I dream of fishing and resting hard on my belly and breasts, firing one of your finest weapons. Watching Sade dance.
I need help finding an old colleague. Ivy. The Magician says she's got some answers. I cannot even begin to explain those few awkward moments of illusion. He's a wily one and heard about my power of prayer. He had a huge request and begged me down on my knees. He got what he needed in exchange for information.
You know the issue I take with using that skill so obviously this is important.
Sade is forever on the prowl. I need Ivy to find out for certain whether or not that sick fuck controlled you too. Or if you're, like him, simply guilty of libertinage. Were you both picking apart what you thought was my carcass after all the fun and games ended? I lost consciousness once or twice and have blank spots in my memory.
I'll be forward - my power of prayer will be the least of your concern if Ivy discloses that this was a set-up.
Unlike you, I don't need crosshairs. You know how much I like to get in real close.
Orange says hey.
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My idea for this graphic novel is based on a host of some of my favorite reads. First and foremost, the Marquis de Sade. Theoretically. Power and control. Force and will. I can't explain that enough. I'm fascinated by trauma theory as well. The results of extreme victimization that doesn't lead directly to death. I've taken from Ishmael Reed's Flight to Canada as well which is a postmodern slave narrative. The work of Alan Moore, particularly Lost Girls and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with broken women as lead characters. I'm a bit stuck now and letter # 4 might lead X somewhere else, I mean she's finally dressed. Not sure if she's ready yet. Then there's the matter of LaBelle Orange. She's X's "other side." The more poetic of the two. I want to write her out but she keeps emerging with forgiveness in her heart. She's 6'9 in heels. Difficult to tuck away.more...
Graphic Novel
In the last decade or so, I've created this set of characters for a graphic novel. There are some more developed than others. Because of my lack of artistic skill, it hasn't really come to fruition. I continue with the narrative as life goes on. It is sort of therapy for me but it is also a fun way to remember those who were inspiration for the project. If you take a look at artwork on here, I've completed what I call "visual bios" for four or five of the characters. Without real artistic skill, the project remains an epistolary narrative. I have snippets of the story scattered through my poems too. Welcome to the Bitter X's world!more...
I should have remarked in my earlier post I have some familiarity with letter writing and journal keeping as therapy for mental heath patients. The way you cleverly joined process with content ending in its missing the therapuetic mark, so to speak, was amusing and sad at the same time.more...
This is smart, susan. Allusion to an iconic figure in the structure of a letter gave me just enough to let my imagination run with it.
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