Queen of the Night

The floor was a pool of tears.

The crimson liquid

of sticky water from my eyes

seeped into the deepest

pigments of my

skin

My Mynah

 

by: Easter Sunshine Catedral, Kelly Marie Conlon, Hiyasmin Gabriela Espejo, Alpha Khristine Fortun

 

CAST

Gabriel Angelus, 15, a sacristan

TIME

Dawn, nearing time for mass

(Around four-thirty in the morning)

PLACE

A dark and silent room in the seminary

 

(Gabriel walks into the room, dressed in a sacristan’s traditional white garb. He seats himself in a winged armchair. A black bird sits in a rusting metal cage.)

(Music emanates from the room but the source of such is unknown.)

(Open Curtains. Music stops abruptly.)

 

Gabriel: Lot. I call my bird that. It hithers and takes shelter in the darkness of this humble abode. Stupid bird, you think I can’t see you?

Hunger Within

The mother threw herself into

fits of delirium for

her three sons couldn’t five wives

except their own

sister.

 

A silent violent outburst:

her sneer

to her daughter’s

continuous lascivious acts

flirting with her

sons

every night.