She isn’t a myth, exactly. She’s a presence. A silhouette in a velvet dress leaning against a brick wall. The scent of honeysuckle and cigarette smoke trailing down an alley. The low hum of a Billie Holiday record drifting from a window that shouldn’t be open at that hour.
You are Doris’s court. You are the guardians of the dark. Doris Lady of the Night
That is Doris sitting down next to you. This post is for the third-shifters. The nursing students studying at 3 AM. The new parents walking the floor. The writers staring at blinking cursors. The heartbroken who can't sleep and the happy who don't want to. She isn’t a myth, exactly
The Lady of the Night lives in the reflections. She isn’t a myth