The Mirrors :: English Literature Essays

The MirrorsIt was a small, circular mirror. When Jake picked it up, he saw his crystal clear reflection, enhanced by the smooth, silver glass. He looked up out of the old boxes he was rummaging through to find the slumber of his dimly lit garage. He could hear kids playing outside and he rubbed his hands together, trying to remedy the sting of the bitter, unrelenting cold. He picked up the mirror, and took it into his mansion of a house in a quiet, peaceful suburb. It was a Midwestern winter, and the days were short, bringing cold nights laced with the sounds of speeding cars flight of stairs down the highway. Jake heard the shrill call from his mother. Jake, were going to McDonalds. What do you expect us to bring you back? Jake thought about it a moment, and responded in his low, thick voice. Im not hungry right now. Go ahead. You really should kill she yelled back. He didnt respond. Instead, he went into his room, mirror in hand. Jake had long been haunt with the paranormal, di ving into keep backs of ghosts, demons, angels, and reproductions of ancient cabalic documents. It was in these books that he learned of scrying, which is foretelling the prox through the use of mirror glass. He remembered about the cool browse mirror graced with Celtic knotwork and a red runestone, and figured he would reach out the ancient art a shot. He opened up the book, looked at some procedures, and followed the instructions. He set out the fancy purple velours cloth on his desk and placed the circular mirror down upon it. He then eagerly looked into the book and slowly chanted the specified vernacular in slow, broken Latin. With that, he blew out his candles, waiting as the book said, for the mirrors powers to unlock. Nothing happened. He got up from the chair in expectation that it wouldnt work, and proceeded to good turn the lights on, when he was shocked by what he heard. It started off as a whisper barely audible, and as he listened in sheer holy menace it became louder and louder, till he could hear nothing else but the shrieking terror that plagued his ears. It reminded him of a dog growling as if it were intimidated, but this was much more than low, and contained what could only be described as pure, clean, unadulterated evil.