Making
Monsters
For this recipe you will need:
1. 1 mirror
2. A pen and
paper (substitute for keyboard if necessary)
3. Music (any
kind will do).
Go to your
mirror. Look at yourself. Now, look right into your eyes. Concentrate, don’t
look back. Increase the intensity of your gaze, turn it into a glare, and see
the fractured red lines of thin veins letting the blood seep in. Hold for two
minutes.
Go to your
paper, write down what you have seen. Begin with describing your own face, the
all-too familiar features of your smile, your chin, your skin. Then go to the
eyes. What did you see there, inside your own eyes? Answer the question within
ten minutes.
Begin
playing your music.
Leave your
paper, now you need to think. Do not let your mind wander, it is absolutely
critical that your mind can distinctly comprehend what you have just written.
Do not be shocked when you cannot recognize the words, when the person you saw
in the mirror is unfamiliar. Well, perhaps they are familiar, but they are certainly not you. You will not recognize what is in those eyes, the fears,
the malice, the animal hatred that looked back at you.
That is
because it was not yours.
Now, back
to writing. Take the eyes now and transplant them from your own body, move them
on to another creature. It must have
fangs, all monsters have fangs. But
do not spend too much time on the physical ornamentations of your monster,
begin describing them. Their thoughts, their minds, their motives. Then move
onto the soul, all good monsters have souls.
It is
looking more familiar, isn’t it? The creature rising out of the black ink,
blinking back from your page? Yes, I suspect you realize exactly what you are
looking at.
Do not be
nervous, don’t stop now because you are almost
there.
Deep
breaths now.
Go back to
the mirror. Close your eyes for a period no shorter than thirty seconds.
Do you see
it? Scream if you need to, but I am afraid it will not do you any good. As you
can see, it is clambering out of the mirror, complete with every horrible
feature you gave it. Its’ hands are on the sink now, knocking over your
toothbrush and razor. Regrettably, your feet won’t work at this point. I am
sorry I did not warn you about that earlier.
As it pins
you down, take careful note of the face, of the eyes.
By the time
you are reading this part, it has left you, crawled back into the mirror so it
can return to feed any time it needs.
Now you
have made your monster. And fortunately for you, it will never be far away.
Author’s note: This recipe is repeatable, but
it will not produce the same finished product each time. For variation, I
recommend that you try different music during the process. Many uses are
surprised at the effect that a song has on the finished product.
