It is 1:28 am and I cannot sleep. But lo and behold, I have stumbled upon not just this magic mirror post but something extraordinary. Before I became a writer of lifestyle short stories (which I’ve yet to share here but plan to in the new year) a lifestyle friend who perhaps saw my potential asked me to do him a favor. Intrigued, I agreed. He sent me an email with a photo of a woman sitting before an ornate mirror wearing a long white dress with a high, modest collar and lace accents. Her hands lay folded in her lap and her head hung low, eyes cast down submissively. The woman in the mirror’s reflection was vastly different. Clothed in attire befitting a saloon girl of the Old West, she wore a short frilly dress much like a fancy negligee with her bust pushed up in full view. She wore bright painted lips of crimson and gaudy jewelry and sat in a risqué position with an alluring expression. The polar opposite of the woman in the chair before the mirror.
He asked me to write a story based on the scene before me. By observing both women, their appearance and style of dress, their facial expressions and how their respective positions came about. Why was the woman sitting so vastly different than what the mirror reflected.
This would be the first of more than twenty stories written for this individual who ignited a fire within me. A passion for writing that continues to blossom as the days, weeks and months go by. Odd that you’d choose to post about a mirror with magic qualities that can alter what is and make it what could be. So similar yet so original. Thanks for your version and for stirring a fond memory of mine. ☺️👍❤️
Thank you for sharing your discovery! I think everybody has a magic mirror, and a deeply fascinating aspect of themselves reflected in it, if they'd only dare to look deeply enough...
It is 1:28 am and I cannot sleep. But lo and behold, I have stumbled upon not just this magic mirror post but something extraordinary. Before I became a writer of lifestyle short stories (which I’ve yet to share here but plan to in the new year) a lifestyle friend who perhaps saw my potential asked me to do him a favor. Intrigued, I agreed. He sent me an email with a photo of a woman sitting before an ornate mirror wearing a long white dress with a high, modest collar and lace accents. Her hands lay folded in her lap and her head hung low, eyes cast down submissively. The woman in the mirror’s reflection was vastly different. Clothed in attire befitting a saloon girl of the Old West, she wore a short frilly dress much like a fancy negligee with her bust pushed up in full view. She wore bright painted lips of crimson and gaudy jewelry and sat in a risqué position with an alluring expression. The polar opposite of the woman in the chair before the mirror.
He asked me to write a story based on the scene before me. By observing both women, their appearance and style of dress, their facial expressions and how their respective positions came about. Why was the woman sitting so vastly different than what the mirror reflected.
This would be the first of more than twenty stories written for this individual who ignited a fire within me. A passion for writing that continues to blossom as the days, weeks and months go by. Odd that you’d choose to post about a mirror with magic qualities that can alter what is and make it what could be. So similar yet so original. Thanks for your version and for stirring a fond memory of mine. ☺️👍❤️
Thank you for sharing your discovery! I think everybody has a magic mirror, and a deeply fascinating aspect of themselves reflected in it, if they'd only dare to look deeply enough...