Your Gothic Nightmare

Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child
scenario by Sara Verbrugge, age 25

As she stood watching William Blake's Good and Evil Angels Struggling for Possession of a Child, she saw her mum and dad. Only, it wasn't clear who was evil and who was good. They constantly switched sides. She was the lovely baby who it was all about though, no doubt about that.

Her father's desperate cries and her mother's weeping (or the other way around, in that respect they were very modern) tormented her at night. They were pretty much the same as the Good and Evil Angels fighting over custody. She was frightened they really would tear her to pieces some time. Their mad anger scared her to death. If only they would stop their shouting and crying. If only she saw a way to make them stop.

Time for Revenge had come! The paintings would be her inspiration. Fuseli and Blake would be her muses to find new and interesting ways of torture.

She would invoke dark forces. The continuous rowing and fighting had driven her out of her senses. She would send demonic armies of imps to occupy her mother's nights so that she would be too tired to shout and cry. She would send ravens to eat her father's liver. They would be torn by monstrous serpents and lions. Stoning, burning by hot metals, hanging from the ceiling, Dante's Inferno would be nothing compared to it.

And finally Hephaestus would drive a spike through both their hearts at the same time to let the hatred out and make some new room for love. That conquers all.

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