The Mirrors
It 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 rest 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 flying down the highway. Jake heard the shrill call from his mother.
"Jake, we're going to McDonald's. What do you want 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 eat!" she yelled back. He didn't respond. Instead, he went into
his room, mirror in hand.
Jake had long been obsessed with the paranormal, diving into books of ghosts,
demons, angels, and reproductions of ancient cabalic documents. It was in these books that he learned of scrying, which is foretelling the future through the use of mirror glass. He remembered about the cool antique mirror graced with Celtic knotwork and a red runestone, and figured he would give the ancient art a shot. He opened up the book, looked at some procedures, and followed the instructions.
He set out the fancy purple velour cloth on his desk and placed the circular mirror
down upon it. He then eagerly looked into the book and slowly chanted the specified jargon in slow, broken Latin. With that, he blew out his candles, waiting as the book said, for the mirror's powers to unlock.
Nothing happened.
He got up from the chair in expectation that it wouldn't work, and proceeded to
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 terror 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
low, and contained what could only be described as pure, clean, unadulterated evil.
Ronald Takaki is one of the foremost-recognized scholars of multicultural studies and holds a PhD. in American History from the University of California, Berkeley. As a professor of Ethnic Studies at the same university, he wrote A Different Mirror: a History of Multicultural America as a fantastic new telling of our nation’s history. The book narrates the composition of the many different people of the United States of America.
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