Feast Your Eyes, Glut Your Soul

***Disclaimer: I got this idea from Pinterest, an exercise where you write a 20 word sentence, then a 19 word sentence, and so on, ending the story with one word.***

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This 20 Sentence Story is inspired by Phantom of the Opera

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I wasn’t created in your image, and because of your fear and your hatred, I am what you made me. 

Doomed to be misunderstood since my birth: born during a massacre, ridiculed and exiled, deemed a leper and insane.

You forced me to realize my ugliness, to realize my despair that would forever be an unwelcome reminder. 

A reminder I should be forced to hide, to hate myself as much as you hate me. 

And so that is what I’ve done, but you will learn that I haven’t gone far. 

For I’ll love the opera until my dying breath, and I’ve heard the angel’s song. 

And so I will shatter your chandeliers and I will strangle you with nooses. 

Yes, I will show you what the opera was always meant to be. 

I will prove my love by making you love her, dear Christine.

Oh, Christine, I have waited long weary months to behold you. 

All I ask of you is to devote your love.

For because of me you will shine and sing. 

You will abandon your lover and choose me. 

And I will be yours, yours forevermore. 

For in you, there is light. 

I’ll be anything for you. 

Your angel of music. 

Your opera ghost. 

Your phantom. 

Erik. 

THE END