After going absolutely awol for months I am back with some hastily written poetry…
Life’s been hectic- studying at two of the best colleges in the country simultaneously has certainly come with a pretty packed schedule; but as it happens there is a flash fiction competition taking place with a vaguely spooky theme for the upcoming Halloween season!
The guidelines stated that it had to be poetry or prose in under 200 words, so please enjoy this collaborative creation :))
Some Slight Context:
The title Crystallised Lovers is lifted from Stendhal’s philosophical texts, in which he details that the first stage of falling in love or developing a crush is ‘crystallisation’- a process during which according to him the object of one’s longing becomes idealised in the pursuers mind due to their infatuation.
A massive inspiration for this piece was Porphyria’s Lover (as I’m sure is quite evident). Me and Em were both quite fascinated with the idea of approaching the open ended horror prompt from the angle of obsessive or destructive love and ended up landing on the following plot line:
A tragic tale of a queer victorian man unravels as he believes that by killing his gay lover he’d rid himself of the homosexual desires his partner evokes in him, but despite the lover passing the man still sees the traces of the deceased in his current wife; ultimately meaning the murder was entirely fruitless.
