Mistletoe - (Fantasy/Drama/Comedy Story)
kayemil for Paragon (The One-Woman Lullaby)
Paragon is the third member of the Beloved Voice team, she lives with Nimrod and Moo inside the show's desert HQ. An agoraphobic dream-weaver, soothsayer and all-round gothic poet who's sole purpose is to read out to the Beloved listeners the mysterious, cloth-bound and anonymously-penned novella "The Stranger Between Dimensions". She has taken a keen interest in the novella that seemingly appeared outside the radio station's front door only a few days before the first broadcast of the show. She also believes that she can talk to dust particles and she is also a heavy drinker of the highly hallucinogenic "Corpseflower Tea".
*Reading narration for the Stranger Between Dimensions*I swear there are shapes out there, some of which I am familiar with, the trees and their falling leaves I can identify. Others, like the spectre that moved across the black not long ago are alien to me and have become a great cause for alarm. And it was a spectre of some sort; that is to suggest that it was human at least once, long ago.
*Narrating and playing the character of the Stranger's Mother for the Stranger Between Dimensions*Her voice was just as gentle as forever was and forever will, but there lay a great resolve now that I had not been privy to until this moment. She began to quiver with sorrow, but at last she spoke "I know what you are, I know that you are destined to follow for only a meager distance behind me, but when you arrive, your purpose will become clear. For me, that knowledge is not afforded and thus is not mine to part unto you. But through what I have taught you, concepts and words that should never have reached you, you have been afforded a gift no man before hath been given; the power of a god, but the heart of a woman. With this you will do the right thing, my love. I know it better than I know the love I feel for you. You will not let the darkness swallow you."
*Narrating and playing the character of The Stranger for the Stranger Between Dimensions*"Murderer!" I opened with, "Puppet!" I followed up, "I loved him, I know that I almost didn't know him, but you took my Oren away from me and now you want me to...no! Go fuck yourself, shade! You are NO Father of mine, no! You're no more than a wraith...a fucking shadow!"