No Theme Thursday

by rugby843, posted in Uncategorized
“Snips and snails and puppy dog tails”…Marta always liked that rhyme and chuckled at the thought some children thought it scary….how delightful! Marta laughed out loud. It had been a while since she invited children into her castle. The little vermin were always running around in the trees, staring up at the black spires and even some bolder teen boys actually peered in the windows! How rude! Of course the windows were iron barred and entering through one impossible and she never looked out of them anyway. She didn’t have to.
Marta had instincts about male personas and if they stepped near she could snap her fingers and they’d disappear. She never knew where they ended up or cared. But the little girls she observed just in case one showed potential.

It had been a fairly boring day and she sat down at her vanity. The candles instantly lit to show an old haggard face in the glass. She’d have to make a new spell in the morning, this time she would add a few dove feathers, the blood still clinging to them for the youth potion to last longer. To be honest she thought, the entire trying to look young was getting boring. She needed to find the perfect girl to complete a fresh 100 year transformation. Oh well, off to sleep, cuddling the tarantula she kept as her favorite pet.

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