The Published Ramblings of a Confused Michiganian
  • Home
  • The Whimsical Ramblings of a Confused Michiganian
  • Forums
  • Links

The World of the Wolfkin Vignette: Collette Montrevoue

10/9/2015

0 Comments

 
PictureFree Picture: Model With FurID: 168000 © Ice | Dreamstime Stock Photos
"Mademoiselle Montrevoue, your mother wishes an audience." The maid, having spoken her announcement, then averted her eyes from the half-naked woman standing in front of a wall of mirrors in the spacious bedroom.
The dressing woman did not take her eyes from the mirror. "What does she want?"
"I'm sorry, she didn't say. Shall I send her in?"
"Fine, fine, whatever."
The maid opened the door to allow a tall, elegant woman into the room, and then withdrew hastily, closing the door behind her.
"Collette! You are not even dressed yet. How is it that you have your own private designer, a veritable army of tailors, and you are not dressed yet?"
"Not now, Mother. I'm having a crisis."
Collette's mother adjusted her black gauzy shawl and smoothed imaginary wrinkles on her onyx silk dress. "What kind of a crisis?"
Collette pointed to a sleeveless, crimson, velvet dress with a dark brown fur collar hanging on an iron stand near an open voluminous closet. "That is what Theophile would have me wear tonight."
"I think it is lovely."
"Lovely? Lovely!" Collette threw her arms up and stalked over to the stand, grabbing the dress's fur collar. "Am I not Wolfkin enough to produce my own fur?! I shall be a mockery, Mother!"
Collette's mother sauntered over to her distraught daughter and ran her fingers through her long brown hair. "Hush now. No daughter of mine will ever be a mockery. Fur is classic high fashion, and will only go out of style among the rabble. Though you come by it naturally, there is no reason to eschew it as an accent."
"But-"
"No arguments. You wear that fur proudly, and any fool who does not see the beautiful irony is beneath our notice. Now, I expect you dressed and ready in exactly twenty minutes in the foyer. What would be a mockery is arriving to a Loup fete already transformed." Collette's mother kissed Collette on the cheek and turned to leave, but then turned back to her daughter. "Is there accommodation for your tail?"
Collette lifted the dress and flipped it so that her mother could see the plunging back line. "Of course. It is still WolfWear."


Keep Writing and Edit On
I Write, I Edit, I Write Again. Witness!
We're Making Better Words, All of Them, Better Words.
I Write to Burn Off the Crazy
0 Comments

    If you give me your e-mail, I'll send you a monthly newsletter. Or bimonthly...we'll see.

    Links

    Mid-Michigan Prose and Writing Group

    Purchase Books

    Whispers of a Killer (WHISPs Book 1)
    Whispers of Terror (WHISPs Book 2)
    Whispers of Conspiracy (WHISPs Book 3)
    Moonlight Medicine:Onset
    Moonlight Medicine:Epidemic
    Moonlight Medicine: Inoculation
    Miles From Manistique
    The Christmas Plague

    Purchase Short Stories

    Snick - Ghostlight, The Magazine of Terror (Winter/Spring 2018)
    Cold Comfort - Monsters in Spaaaace!

    Author

    My name is Jen Haeger and I have a degree in Veterinary Medicine as well as a Master's in Forensic Science, so I decided to forget all that and write  novels. I used to read quite a bit as a youth, but was not introduced to truly spectacular writing until my husband showed me the works of Jim Butcher, Neil Gaiman, Philip Pullman, and others. We are both enormous dorks and enjoy Science Fiction, Fantasy, Board Games, and RPGs, but also try to get out backpacking every once in a while (much easier to do when we lived in New Zealand). Cheers!
    jenhaeger.com

    Archives

    November 2020
    October 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    February 2020
    January 2020
    November 2019
    October 2019
    September 2019
    August 2019
    July 2019
    May 2019
    April 2019
    March 2019
    February 2019
    January 2019
    December 2018
    November 2018
    October 2018
    September 2018
    August 2018
    July 2018
    June 2018
    May 2018
    April 2018
    March 2018
    February 2018
    January 2018
    December 2017
    November 2017
    October 2017
    September 2017
    August 2017
    July 2017
    June 2017
    May 2017
    April 2017
    March 2017
    February 2017
    January 2017
    December 2016
    November 2016
    October 2016
    September 2016
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    September 2015
    August 2015
    July 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    September 2014
    August 2014
    July 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    April 2014
    March 2014
    February 2014
    January 2014
    October 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013

    Categories

    All
    Announcements
    Author Interview
    Cons
    Contests
    Contracts
    Covers
    Cthulhu
    Editing
    Events
    Flash Fiction
    Human Rights
    Marketing
    Memoir
    Mentoring
    MFM Vignette
    Miscellaneous
    MM Vignette
    NaNoWriMo
    News
    Outlines
    Pitches
    Poetry
    Professional Writer Vs Novice
    Promotions
    Prompts
    Reading
    Sensitivity
    Short Stories
    Silly
    WHISPS
    WotW Vignette
    Writing

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.