Somatic Fictions

from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous by Sister Ursuline

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She sunk sullenly into the rich damask pillow in a brief respite from quarrelling. Her eyes bore into his back as he stood facing the window.
“Peter I shall do as I please.”
Perpetually the indomitable invalid, she pulled her dank hair away from her cheeks and plumped the goose down. Glowering, he turned to face her. Her translucent skin, already sickly pale, was cast a sour yellow in the lamplight.
“These things are not possible – you are unwell,”he said.
“Tell me, who alerted the nurse?”
He shifted slowly on the creaking floorboards, the draught seeping up through the floor.
“Your countenance betrays you,”she spat ruefully.
He swung wide the door and was gone, perhaps forever.
Was it his rustic simplicity of manners that drew out the bile in her? Homespun to a fashionable display, his crude upbringing assaulted the finery of her chambers.
What did she hope to gain, calling on him to return?
What compelled him to return, only to be cast away?
It was a lesson she was never to learn: that sometimes the victory was just not worth the crown.

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from Dramatic, Grim and Humorous, released September 15, 2015
Cello, Vocals: Sister Ursuline

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Sister Ursuline Sydney, Australia

Sister Ursuline is a Sydney-based singer-songwriter and cellist. Sonic historian and “found-object artist of musical influences,” she draws on historical sources and folk stories to create otherworldly narrative songs: asylum-bound nuns, shape-shifting witches and iron-willed aristocrats inhabit “echoing, off-kilter tale[s]… of madness, illness, obsession and suffering…” ... more

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