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I urge people to join in, comment with your paragraph of fiction to accompany the image. It doesn’t have to follow my story or reflect the same themes. It can be a poem or in a different language (provide a translation please 
). Anyone who wants to join in, is welcome. This photograph will be reblogged under Ermisenda on tumblr and added to the Picture it & Write gallery on Facebook and Pinterest.
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My father had warned me many times before but with no avail. The mirror had taken my mother long ago and now it sought after me. My fingers fingered the Victorian iron wrought frame. Power radiated off it and burned my cheeks. I couldn’t look away. I was beautiful. I was perfect. Blemishes had been rubbed away, my eyes glittered and my skin glowed. I was the fairest in all the land and I wanted to keep it that way. My fingers tightened their grip.
– Ermisenda Alvarez
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here is my writing exercise for this week
http://terry1954.wordpress.com/2012/09/15/picture-it-and-write-sept-152012/
Appearances can be deceiving, but this also doesn’t mean that all beautiful people are corrupt within. One should just never judge someone by their looks. Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write!
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Here is mine. http://musingsfromtheturnippatch.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/picture-it-write-912/
A great story. I think this can be easily compared to the lives of many teenagers. Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write!
– Ermisenda
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Very Snow White. I liked how you expressed the power the mirror has over women.
Here’s mine.
http://discoveriesinaletterbox.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/the-witchs-trial/
This feels like it could be part of a bigger story. A great tale! Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write.
Hmm… I think Spooky Month might be around the corner. Anna’s right, you really had a dark Snow White feel here. I liked the way you describe the mirror’s hold on you so the last sentence makes us think it’s really the mirror gripping you.
Here’s Practice Makes Perfect.
Thanks! I purposefully went for a Snow White feel. Hah. Nice choice of the name Ruby. I liked how your story was so dark as well. While yours included the mirror I like that it didn’t focus on it either. Well done, Annie. Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write!
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This is mine:
http://cenicitas.com/2012/09/16/blind/
Simple and bittersweet. It strikes at the heart. Great work! Thanks for contributing this week at Picture it & write, Nanda! 🙂
Thanks!
I’m glad you like it! Hopefully will contribute more! 🙂
Looking into time and space
through the mirror with my face
being the mold.
Future present and past
are coming by, all fast.
This eerie future looks troublesome.
I hope good days are to come.
Future present and past
are all coming by very fast.
Through the cracks in the mirror i see
What is waiting for me.
Looking into time and space
through the mirror with my face.
– Otheus
I like how you kept repeating certain phrases in the poem. I also really like how you talked about the future, present, and past all blurring. It can seem like that at times! Thanks for contributing this week. 🙂
I also like how the cracks show you what is waiting.
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Here is my offering for today
http://joe2stories.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/picture-it-and-write-back/
Enjoy
Joe
I loved this part:’little pieces of memory started to come back to me, first as a trickle, then as a torrent.’ Such beautiful description. Your piece had a much lighter tone than many of the others, it was a nice change. Great work! Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write.
After the woman is finished with those men I don’t think you’ll consider this a ‘lighter tone’. I’ve looked into it. It ain’t pretty!
By the way, who is the picture of? I’ve been looking at it for the last four days and lets just say, I really, really want to know! 🙂
I really want to know too! Unfortunately many of the images on tumblr aren’t properly credited. I found this one through one of my followers and it doesn’t have the photographer or model on it. They don’t seem to know either. It’s a mystery but if you find out, let me know too! 🙂
This was fun! http://mythoughtsonthesubjectareasfollows.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/innocence-return/
Ooo, lovely! Very sinister and dramatic. I like how she’s trying to coax it back. I loved your perspective on this week’s picture. Thanks for contributing!
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Ooh… suspenseful and intriguing is your mirror story. “My fingers tightened their grip.”
I have just posted my little piece… not to taken too seriously, of course. 🙂
http://abcofspiritalk.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/picture-it-write-whats-in-a-mirror/
Haha, at the crux of everything it’s about the “what”. There has been and will continue to be literature and fiction based on the “who” and what makes us human or what makes us different from a chair, apart from the obvious chemical processes. A nice piece. Thanks for contributing this week, Carolyn!
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I have been away for long now! But I am back with my new post for this:
http://shalvikap.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/who-am-i/
Wow! Very powerful. I love the finishing line of “Who am I?” I loved the structure of the poem too, e.g. ‘But, I am confident/I am lonely’ it really gave the poem it’s own heartbeat. Thanks for contributing this week with such a fantastic poem!
Writing for the picture at:
http://scraps-from-life.blogspot.in/2012/09/celebrating.html
A very happy piece that celebrates a great event. Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write!
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I’ve been mulling over this picture all week, finally got something up.
http://frommywriteside.wordpress.com/2012/09/21/the-useless-fairy-2/
Yes, this definitely feels like there is more to it. You’ve given us a sliver of a grand story. Thanks for contributing this week to Picture it & write, Sam. 🙂
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I came up with an idea with a short time and so I’m not too sure what to make of it. This one really made me think! Here it is: Guardians of the Realms.
I hand carried it through the forest as I dodged those who would capture me. A way home, they said. Use it well, they said. But, be careful of its power, they said.
Each time I rested I gazed into its depths until hunger or cold forced me onward deeper into the dense forest. At one point I tripped over a tree root and it went flying, landing hard on the ground. With a gasp I picked it up to stare into it.
The images stared back at me as if they were alive and could speak. I almost cried out when I saw my mother crying and my father comforting her by putting an arm around her shoulders. The images shifted and changed, morphed into another scene. This one showed my house in winter, the snow falling in slow motion, each snowflake drifting down, down. The image faded replaced by a gray blankness.
I shook it as if shaking it would make it work again. Nothing showed on the face except the crack down the side. I waited then tried again. The blank grayness mocked me.With a cry I let the portal fall, the crack in the glass widening as it hit the ground shattering on impact.
Just have fun on Halloween
No nasty tricks being played
Enjoy hot toddy, apples and spice
Turn the evil into nice
Make Halloween just a day
When all the children like to play
When in the dark keep them safe
Wish this world a better place
Gemini
https://geminiwords.wordpress.com/2012/10/31/happy-halloween-have-fun-and-be-happy/
A lovely poem. I like the positive message. If only it was always safe for all, especially children, to play out and about. Thanks for contributing! I hope you had a great Halloween. 🙂
I am feeling bored, so I decided to do a few of these to keep my mind awake.
http://gotmeghan.wordpress.com/2013/05/25/picture-it-write-mirror-mirror/
I like how she chose not to wither beneath the scrutiny of others, but instead become stronger! Quite powerful. Is she a vampire now?