Exercise in Creative Writing : To write a small piece
of strikingly similar characteristics in a relationship, where certain
characteristics or actions of the partner is a mirror image of the self and strikes
a chord in the other persons mind revealing a side that they identify as their
own.
He watched her cut the
apples. She seemed to take her time in
going through the motions with the serrated edge of the knife. She appeared to be in a trance staring
fixedly at the glint of the knife, barely mumbling a response to his pointed
question. It was as if the shine of the
steel in her hand had transformed her to an apparition that caressed his memory creating a familiar outline. The motions
of the blade in her hand had an eerie similarity to a practiced rhythm that was
second nature to him. The slow passage
started from the top, curving inwards and emerging out from the bottom
effortlessly, dismembering and slicing into parts, what was once a whole. He could see himself in the same trance, his
eyes glazed but sharp and shining, and the grip on the knife strong yet loose,
the smile on his face a fixed but lopsided grimace. It was as if his passion for wielding the
knife was mirrored in her motions and he wondered if the apple was just a substitute,
and his vision an unintended glimpse of their alter ego.
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