spiraling...

I wrote this for a Matisse inspired art competition at the IMA.  The flowers and the staring woman made me think of hypnotic flowers.  I wrote down the colors the woman saw by looking at the colors of the flowers.  I couldn't write anything really surprising for the ending because in the picture it looked calm.  A fly buzzing in her ear just popped into my head.

Spiraling…

By Eliza Bradbury

Queen Lyla sat in her private chamber and stared at her bouquet of flowers. She felt s…l…e…e...p…y, very sleepy indeed.  Her eyes started to spiral, she felt tingly as she was sucked into a hypnotic daze. Color, lots of color! Red like her blush, white like winter, purple like her gown, pink like her lip gloss, green like the bushes in the courtyard.

She suddenly awoke to the sound of a fly buzzing in her ear.