Creepy Aunt? Portrait of Jacqueline Boage, by Sergius Pauser
Evil: the parasite of the Good. Today’s 1000 words has been spent on the villain, Ailine Devereaux, whom I have avoided up till now, but who must be written sometime. I’ve left her till late because she has to creep through the text, and because she exists mainly through other characters’ perceptions. She has a life of her own, but is not permitted one by the protagonist/storyteller, whose narrative manipulates her, just as Ailine once manipulated the protagonist. A helix of words which twists about itself, and twists through the tale.