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[…] The Professor by Icy Sedgwick ~ @IcySedgwick ~ Between 500 and 1000 words ~ Horror […]
[…] mirrors reflect the soul, then both forms of representation could show the dead. I wrote a story, ‘The Professor’, about a figure who appeared in […]
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Icy is a folklore blogger and host of the Fabulous Folklore podcast. She is based in the north east of England, where she was born and raised amid the folk tales and legends of Tyneside and Northumberland. Icy is fascinated by history, cinema, art, and the occult, and griffins will always be her favourite mythical beast. She also writes dark fantasy novellas, Gothic short stories and the occasional weird Western, and she holds a PhD in Film Studies!
I’ve always suspected the persons in the mirrors.
That’s why you’re still here!
Best not to reflect on those reflections or they’ll be back! ^_^ (I want to know more about the mirror people)
I might deal with them next week… *ponders*
so the yoga bunnies and yogurt knitters must be doing something right if the mirror people aren’t interested in them? I liked the idea of the mirror people, nice menace
Yeah, I think they’re just so dull the mirror people can’t be bothered with them!
Mirrors do seem a bit creepy. I’m sure I’ll shiver next time I look at one after reading this.
Mirrors always freak me out!
If you stare into the mirror long enough, the mirror stares back…
I wonder if the mirror people only go after those they know. A sort of network thing, unwittingly finding their own victims before they become one. (Does that make sense?)
Maybe the mirror people are the better ones to hang out with. The Professor is trying to save her from the mundanes.
I greatly enjoyed this. I am enough of a nerd that I did picture the Professor in the mirror as having a goatee, a la Spock in Mirror Mirror 🙂
On a critique note, I felt having her explain what was happening was unnecessary. It was already clear from your description and him holding out his hand. Just a thought 🙂
I imagine the narrator will now start wearing the same thing every day and whispering about mirror people while no one listens before she vanishes too. Nice work!