Mystery Cottage

by RC DeWinter

Title

Mystery Cottage

Artist

RC DeWinter

Medium

Painting - Digital Oils-paintography-photopainting

Description

Copyright 2014 RC deWinter ~ All Rights Reserved

flash fiction

one must wonder about
a cottage inaccessible
no windows or doors
(at least that i can see)
admitting light
or revealing whatever is
sequestered within

at one time i might have
attempted entry
cats are curious creatures
not easily deterred
by seemingly insuperable obstacles
but now i prefer imagination
to the discovery of what is usually mundane

so i stand in the shadows
and magick up stories:
bodies stacked precisely
by a quiet madman
chests full of money
in desperate need of laundering
the hairshirts and whips of ecstatic flagellants

not bloody likely
just like the heart inaccessible
(no mystery there
merely the cowardice of the failed romantic)
this quiet box of stone
probably holds firewood or old furniture
that somebody doesn't know where else to put

yes i could walk around to the front
illuminated in moonlight
where a door and maybe windows likely sit
then scrabble my way inside
to satisfy any lingering doubts
about its ordinariness
but fantasy is often more fun than fact

so you with your hearts barricaded
need have no fear of me
there will be no indecent probing
of whatever wrapped those chains
around that casket in your chest
i'll write a fairytale full of magick
and romance dramatic

instead of reading the dull and faded ink
of your ordinary story
~ copyright 2014 RC deWinter

Am autumn night view of a cottage on the grounds of Gillette Castle State Park, East Haddam, Connecticut.

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