CONCEPT: the bad daughter from charles perrault’s fairy tale “diamonds and toads” makes a living using her CURSE to help evict sundry supernaturals from coffins, graveyards, and other haunts for a tidy sum. throw in some gogolian antics, a bit of old fashioned witchery, a good dose of humor and you have:

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

find me @plaguedaughter !!!

• “Got a secret, can you keep it?”
• “If I show you then I know you won’t tell what I said.”
• “Two can keep a secret if one of them is dead.”
• “Why do you smile like you’ve been told a secret?”
• “No one keeps a secret.”
• “Are you hypnotized by secrets that you’re keeping?”
• “I have something I want to tell you but you have to promise never to tell anyone.”
• “I promise.”
• “Do you swear on your life?”
• “I swear on my life.”
• “You swore you’d never tell.”
• “Two can keep a secret if one of us is dead.”
• “We’re going out.”
• “Boring.”
• “Nothing thrills us anymore.”
• “No one kills us anymore.”
• “Life is such a chore (when it’s boring).”
• “Sexy boy, girl on girl, ménage à trois — boring.”
• “Marijuana, cocaine, heroin — boring.”
• “Galliano, Donatella, Dolce & Gabbana — boring.”
• “Caviar, escargot, Dom Perignon — boring.”
• “’Love of my life, bear your child, everything I’ve ever wanted’ — boring.”
• “Hey, domino, I am stopping you from falling.”
• “I’m the one you want.”
• “Sticks and stones will break your bones and leave you lying in the mud.”
• “You get scared when we’re alone like I might suck your blood.”
• “I could tell you a witch’s spell but it just might blow your top.”
• “You start to run just as I’m having fun.”
• “It’s awfully hard to stop.”
• “Hey, loverboy, oh, now do you believe me?”
• “That’s not all that I can do.”
• “Sit back down — I’m afraid we won’t be leaving.”
• “Can’t undo my spell on you.”
• “I don’t think I can stop.”
• “Some people say that I want you for your money but I really want you for your body.”
• “Pleased to meet you, baby.”
• “I want to be your honey.”
• “This won’t get any easier now that your heart is beating in my hand.”
• “I’ll try not to destroy you, baby, even though we both know I can.”
• “Clear the bed to lie on, darlin’, make a mess of me.”
• “Here’s my dress to try on, baby.”
• “Let me be your man.”
• “Tell me what I am.”
• “Can we run away together?”
• “I would walk on water, I would walk on fire, I would sell my soul to the devil.”
• “I’m done with compromise.”
• “You’ve got me, dirty angel.”
• “Aren’t you ready to come clean?”
• “Don’t you hear me when I say I’m lonely?”
• “Do I kid myself to think that I am your one and only?”
• “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve cried over you.”
• “I’ve had one too many sleepless nights over you.”
• “Can’t you see I’m wounded? (Go ahead and put me down.)”
• “I’m dying to believe you.”
• “Cross your heart and hope to die.”
• “When I woke up this afternoon I knew I felt uneasy.”
• “No matter what I’d do nothing seemed to please me.”
• “I couldn’t get out of my head that little fight we had last night.”
• “Though I would much rather be dead than admit to myself that you were right.”
• “Now don’t look at me that way. You know I just can’t take it.”
• “No matter what they say I know that we will make it.”
• “‘Cause when we are good, we’re grand but when we’re bad we are very bad.”
• “But I stick around ‘cause the love that you’re giving me is the best I’ve ever had.”
• “And it’s funny to me, the way that things have worked out.”
• “There’s no doubt in my mind that you can’t recall what this all was about.”
• “Love me sweetly and completely.”
• “Come and sit beside me ‘cause you know I need you near.”
• “This is the end of us.”
• “You’ll never hear my voice again.”
• “All that I want is for you to come to ruin.”
• “All that I want is for you to come crawling back (to me).”
• “This is the end of us and everything you said we’d be.”
• “I do not want for you to be happy.”
• “You won’t forget my name, but I’ll forget your face tomorrow.”
• “If we built an armour for our tender bodies, could we love each other? Would we strive to feel?”
• “You say you want to know her like a lover and undo her damage; she’ll be new again. Soon you’ll find that if you try to save her it will renew her anger. You will never win.”
• “You want never bitter and all delicious and a clean conscience and all its blisses.”
• “You want one true lover with a thousand kisses.”
• “You want soft and gentle and never vicious.”
• “He could bring me to my knees.”
• “You were walking faster than I could run.”
• “Boy, you’ve got a lot to learn.”
• “What were you doing in my dream last night, honey?”
• “Well it’s a mystery to me how you keep on slipping in my mind.”
• “And  it’s downright dirty that this old wound won’t heal with time.”
• “Well you could wash my brain, you could tear out my heart but I would never forget you.”
• “It’’s killing me that I’m still in love with you.”
• “Just when I think I’ve got you in safe keeping that’s when your memory, it comes 'round creeping.”
• “Well it’s an ache I can’t shake and it’s creeped down deep into my core.”
• “But babe I can’t fake it, I can’t take this heartbreak anymore.”
• “I asked you please to leave my heart but you refused to go.”
• “I can’t take this pain much longer.”
• “You insist on teaching me what I already know.”
• “Well, I’ve been lying here all alone.”
• “Wondering if you are ever coming home.”
• “I left on the light by the bed in case you were to call.”
• “What is wrong with me?”
• “I never really thought it would last. (And here I am now, fading fast.)”
• “No, I could not sleep tonight”
• “Where would you go? What would you do if it wasn’t me, it was you?”
• “If only you could feel my heart race.”
• “Well maybe I am not what you thought.”
• “Don’t worry, you are not what I thought you were either.”
• “No matter how hard it gets, no matter how thick your head is, there’s always something more to learn. (Even if you just want to quit.)”
• “I can’t tell you how to live your life, but I know how to live mine.”
• “I take home pretty things that I like and baby, you are so fine.”
• “I swore I would never fall in love with a boy in a rock and roll band.”
• “Why do I adore you? We’ve only just met.”
• “I feel I would do anything for you.”
• “I’ve had too much wine.”
• “Make love to me until the sun comes up or until we decide we are done. Or until all the prayers that go to heaven get an answer.”
• “You are absurd.”
• “You say the cutest things I’ve ever heard.”
• “I don’t think I can take another word or my head might explode.”
• “Love me.”

• “We could bring a blanket for the grass.”
• “Cover up your eyes so you don’t see.”
• “If you let me go I’m running fast.”
• “We could watch the black birds cross the skies.”
• “We could count the leaves left on the trees.”
• “We could count the teardrops in our eyes.”
• “Now you know how I feel and I won’t back down.”
• “Prick your finger on a spinning wheel but don’t make a sound.”
• “Drop of blood and now you’re taken for all time.”
• “With a kiss you will awaken and you’ll be mine.”
• “I could always stay and work it out.”
• “Wondering if you still wanted me.”
• “But there are so many things to doubt.”
• “Think that for a moment you were mine.”
• “I know that you saw what we could be”
• “But then you went and changed your mind.”
• “Seven months to the day since I saw your face.”
• “You roam the earth like a fire holding out ‘til the bitter end.”
• “You’re holding on ‘til the bitter end.”
• “I take a walk into town, it’s like a dead-end street.”
• “The sidewalks sing your name underneath my feet.”
• “Baby where’d you go, did you sail away with some distant notion?”
• “Darling what we had it cannot be taken, it cannot be stolen.”
• “And it won’t be forgotten no it won’t be forgotten.”
• “Summer disappears like a dream I had.”
• “And winter comes with a knife that cuts you down and it never ends.”
• “I hurry past the place you like to drink alone.”
• “Seven months to the day you left me here on this avenue.”
• “Darling what we had it cannot be taken, it cannot be broken and it won’t be forgotten.”
• “Seven months to the day and you don’t leave a trace.”
• “I find you never seem to notice.”
• “They’re intertwined, but they’re still free,”
• “Oh but you don’t wanna hear it.”
• “What’s it to do with you and me?”
• “Tell me, how can I love you more.”
• “What now,
• “Step off the heart that’s on the floor.”
• “We are stars, fashioned in the flesh and bone,”
• “We are islands,excuses to remain alone.”
• “We are moons, throw ourselves around each other.”
• “We are oceans, being controlled by the pull of another.”
• “I just wanna be loved by you,”
• “I see nothing worse than to sail this universe without you.”
• “When we met, I was pulling an angel out of a liar.”
• “We forget, satisfaction kills our desire.”
• “We are dreamers, wishing upon what we were born from.”
• “We make plans, kill them ourselves and then we mourn them.”
• “If I found a way then I would make you stay maybe one more night if you wanna.”
• “God bless the world, it’s so glorious.”
• “God bless the ones we’ve loved, God bless the ones we’ve lost.”
• “I will never die, never die like you.”
• “If I found the boy, the one with golden eyes you know I think I’d haunt you.”
• “Say afterlife’s ok.”
• “But it got so lonely when you turned away.”
• “I feel like hell today.”
• “He was moving towards me like a deadly hurricane.”
• “Well the eye was on the sparrow but I was in the rain.”
• “Why can’t I know secrets that you’re keeping from me?”
• “Stop, don’t tell me now.”
• “I don’t know how to bring to life the things that meant so much to me before.”
• “There is danger in your your words that I cannot ignore.”
• “Why must I conceal the secrets I’ve been keeping from you.”
• “Time flies by like planes above and worries me to death.”
• “I lose you more and more with every breath.”
• “Clock strikes three in the morning and I lie sleepless.”
• “In the early light I found you with the bottle by your side.”
• “I can see by your eyes you know that I…I’m kissing you goodbye.”
• “I’m kissing you goodbye.”
• “So I think I will leave you guessing after all you put me through.”
• “I don’t want nobody else if I can’t be with you.”
• “Leave me in quiet.”
• “You said I was hiding and I will not deny it.”
• “Your eyes look heavy (babe), so why won’t you just sleep.”
• “I can’t afford to watch you walk away.”
• “These games you play are bringing me down.”
• “If you could see all of this sorrow in me, I’ve got to believe you’d stick around.”
• “My life goes on slowly without you, I move through space and time.”
• “I feel the air heavy upon my skin and wonder if I’ll see you again.”
• “If the weekend starts on Wednesday and it lasts till Monday night then when Tuesday comes around, you better treat your body right or it will drag you down.”
• “Yeah, you say you’ll have another then another turns to five.”
• “So when morning rolls around, you’ll be surprised you’re still alive.”
• “It’s just another role that you do.
• “If you’re looking for a lover and you find someone you hate, if you stay with them forever then I guess you’ve found your fate.”
• “It’s funny how it all works out in the end.”
• “It’d be a tragedy for anyone that was your girl, because the saddest part is you want the love of all the girls.”
• “It’s never too late to begin.”

❛ All that’s known in history, in science — overthrown. ❜ ❛ You doubt them, and soon they bark and hound you. ❜ ❛ All they say is  ‘trust in what is written. ❜ ❛ Wars are made, and somehow that is wisdom. ❜ ❛ Thought is suspect and money is their idol. ❜ ❛ And nothing is okay unless it’s scripted in their Bible. ❜ ❛ But I know there’s so much more to find just in looking through myself, and not at them. ❜ ❛ Still, I know to trust my own true mind. ❜ ❛ Name the stars and know their dark returning. ❜ ❛ Just watch me. ❜   ❛ God, I dreamed there was an angel who could hear me through the wall. ❜ ❛ This is so not life at all. Help me out, out of this nightmare. ❜ ❛ Just give it time, kid. ❜ ❛ Let me teach you how to handle all the sadness in your soul. ❜ ❛ It’s the bitch of living. ❜ ❛ God, my whole life’s like some test. ❜ ❛ It’s like, just kiss some ass, man. Then you can screw ‘em all. ❜ ❛ It’s the bitch of living and living in your head. ❜ ❛ It’s the bitch of living and sensing God is dead. ❜ ❛ It’s the bitch of living and knowing this is it. ❜ ❛ God, is this it? This can’t be it. ❜ ❛ Oh God, what a bitch! ❜ ❛ It’s almost like loving. Sad as that is. ❜ ❛ It’s like I’m your lover or more like your ghost. ❜ ❛ I spend the day wondering what you do, where you go. ❜ ❛ I try and just kick it but what can I do. ❜ ❛ It’s chill in the wind but it’s warm in your arms. ❜ ❛ I love when you do stuff that’s rude and so wrong. ❜   ❛ I ride on the rush, all the hopes, all the dreams. ❜ ❛ I may be neglecting the things I should do. ❜ ❛ You. You. You. ❜ ❛ No more whispering anymore. ❜ ❛ Touch me — just like that. ❜ ❛ God, that’s so nice. ❜ ❛ No more weeping anymore. ❜ ❛ Touch me, all silent. ❜ ❛ Tell me, please, ‘all is forgiven’. ❜ ❛ Touch me — just try it. ❜ ❛ I’ll love you right. ❜ ❛ Just too unreal, all this. ❜ ❛ Haven’t you heard the word of your body? ❜ ❛ Haven’t you heard the word of my wanting? ❜ ❛ Oh, I’m gonna be wounded. ❜ ❛ Oh, I’m gonna be your wound. ❜ ❛ Oh, I’m gonna bruise you. ❜ ❛ Oh, you’re gonna be my bruise. ❜ ❛ Watching his/her/their/your world slip through my fist. ❜ ❛ Haven’t you heard the word – how I want you? ❜ ❛ I wanna be strong. I want the world to find out. ❜ ❛ Truly it touched me — it did — that you would think of me as a friend. ❜ ❛ Uh huh…uh huh…uh huh…well, fine. ❜ ❛ Not like it’s even worth the time. ❜   ❛ But still, you know, you wanted more. ❜ ❛ Sorry, it won’t change — been there before. ❜ ❛ A thousand bucks, I’m, like, scott free. ❜ ❛ By now you know the score. ❜ ❛ You’re gonna crash and burn. ❜ ❛ You toe the line. ❜ ❛ They’re not my home, not anymore. ❜ ❛ In any case, I assure you that your present misfortune will have no effect on my feelings for you. ❜ ❛ Okay, so nothing’s changed — heard that before. ❜ ❛ I am unchangingly, and most fondly yours. ❜ ❛ Just fuck it, right? Enough, that’s it. ❜ ❛ Another day of utter shit. ❜ ❛ Flip on a switch, and everything’s fine. ❜ ❛ But there’s nowhere to hide from these bones, from my mind. ❜ ❛ Awful sweet to be a little butterfly. Just wingin’ over things, and nothing deep inside. ❜ ❛ I don’t do sadness. ❜ ❛ And who can say what dreams are? ❜ ❛ And who can say what we are? ❜ ❛ Can’t help the itch to touch, to kiss to hold ____ once again. ❜ ❛ All things ____ never did are left behind. ❜ ❛ When we look back, thirty years from now, tonight will seem unbelievably…beautiful. ❜ ❛ I thought perhaps, we’d only talk — ❜ ❛ So, are you sorry we…? ❜ ❛ I love you, _____, as I have never loved anyone! ❜ ❛ Oh, you’re gonna be wounded. ❜ ❛ Oh, you’re gonna be my wound. ❜ ❛ Oh you’re gonna bruise too. ❜ ❛ Oh, I’m gonna be your bruise. ❜ ❛ Such a shame. Such a sin. ❜ ❛ Those you’ve known and lost, still walk behind you. ❜ ❛ Those you’ve pained may carry that still with them. ❜ ❛ You’ve left them far behind. ❜ ❛ There’s a way through this. ❜ ❛ There’s so much more to find — another dream, another love you’ll hold. ❜ ❛ On your way you are not alone. ❜

they walk along the moss, barefoot; the scent of petrichor filling their lungs. they know each leaf and mushroom by name, wildcrafting is in their blood.