Mirrored Souls Under a Blacklight
written by: G. Lynn Brown
I’m stuck in a house of mirrors
Some are cracked
Some are desilvered
All are smeared and covered in fingerprints
And at every turn another distorted version of myself stares back
Fat
Ugly
Twisted
Jealous
Hurt
Frightened
Definitely frightened
Because I can’t escape
Stuck in this blacklit palace of echoes
Where you’re hidden in the dark recesses
With purple smile and dotted eyes
Staring back at me at every turn
Reflecting the best and worst in me
Like a mirror soul
Funhouse style
The same but different
Blurred but sharp
Like the shards of broken glass
From the cracked mirrors
And my fragile heart
G. Lynn Brown is a 2x Pushcart Prize nominee who has had her poetry and flash fiction published in dozens of lit mags, including Dear Booze, Raw Lit, Bunker Squirrels, Prosetrics, Paragraph Planet, and Spillwords, among many others. She has also been included in several print anthologies by The Dribble Drabble Review, Written Tales, The World of Myth, Wicked Shadows, and two best-selling haiku collections by Literary Revelations, among others. She has been a contest judge for Friday Flash Fiction, and editor for 101Words, a reader for Flash Fiction Magazine, as well as poetry and drabble judge at two now defunct lit mags. In 2024, she published her first short romance/women's fiction collection, Legal Briefs: a Short Story Collection. In 2024, she started the only lit mag dedicated to romance, Micromance Magazine, and is also EIC of KissMet Quarterly, a seasonally-themed romance anthology.
Latest posts by G. Lynn Brown (see all)
- Mirrored Souls Under a Blacklight - April 3, 2026
- The Great Christmas Eve Bakery Heist - December 16, 2025
- Number 5 - October 22, 2025
