Venetian Red

Mind-Boggling Stories and Poems of the Occult.

Sunday, August 12, 2012

Written by Alithia Pes at 11:12 AM

vampires (15) witches (14) poems (11) blood (10) love (10) death (9) horror (9) ghosts (6) madness (6) journey (4) Christmas (3) dreams (3) hope (3) life (3) magic (3) Adeline (2) New Year (2) fear (2) flesh (2) friends (2) massacre (2) monsters (2) myths (2) symbolism (2) words (2) River Fleet (1) X-Apodo (1) anathema (1) anime (1) bites (1) bride (1) divination (1) dragons (1) fledgeling (1) hell (1) medieval (1) money (1) moon (1) poison (1) possessed (1) sacrifice (1) sarcasm (1) succubus (1)

My red wine

(painting by Adrian Borda) It is the end of Spring, just before Summer burns the buds and dries the fields that I firs...
Alithia's Samhain.

Samhain . Alithia lit a solitary, white candle and placed it on the narrow window sill and sang: "With this candle and by its li...
Part IV: Initiation

(painting by Auguste Renoir) Standing side by side we watched our metamorphosis to our former se...
The meeting

"Where are you?" the thin mental voice asked. "I'm on the train to Rome" she thought hurriedly back. She closed he...
The Omnipotence of Persistence: The true story of an eternal strap-hanger.

Here I am on the crowded bus, hanging from the worn-out strap, pretending to be afraid of losing my balance. It is raining outside and th...
Freckles

Marina Bychkova's doll. It looks so real it is upsetting. A real woman trapped inside a tiny porcelain body. Her lifetime of stories a...
Queen Bitch

(painting by Carrie Ann Baade) Her: "Stop staring at the ugliness and consider...
"In loving memory"

(drawing by Brian Satalino) I was never fond of Great Aunt Bertha and whenever she visited us I found all sorts of excuses to stay as far...
Pandora

(Photo by Thomas Hodge) "I am Pandora and everybody knows me because of my box which, as you can see, is in fact a large jar. As t...
Eros and Thanatos

(story in progress)