The setting was absolutely right for what I was going to do. The wind was rustling about like crazy outside and the windows were clashing together. The rain outside was like the driving force of me; the harder it rained the closer I got to performing the task. Then all of a sudden …FLASH… a big crack of lightning that made my mind up, Porphyria had to go.
I took my dear Porphyria’s hair and wrapped it around her own neck 3 times. She thought I was just being playful and bent her neck to make it fit easy round there. After the third time I pulled hard on the end, she made no noise and looked at me straight in the eye as if she was expecting what had just happened. When she was looking at me it was in such a way as if she was saying, “sorry for cheating, my dear, please keep going, I deserve this”. When she passed away I just held her all night and thought to myself “my dear Porphyria, why did you do it, we could have been perfect forever”.
Duke of Ferrara- Diary Entry:
Dear Diary,
Today was the day; the job has been carried out, my wife, murdered. For the last year she has been running very close to the line to me doing this but she has just pushed me too far. She is one of those outstandingly pretty women, which you just can’t help but stare at. Really that is the only reason why I married her, it wasn’t out of love, in fact I can’t stand her personality, but she is just too pretty to resist.
As a result of this she always attracts a lot of attention, and she doesn’t chose to ignore the men either. She flirts with them and plays along with their little games. She is married to me and therefore should only talk, flirt etc… with me. I told her if she kept it up I might do something bad to her but she took no notice.
So I had her killed, but I realized before I killed her that I would miss her beauty so much that I couldn’t have it done. So I devised an ingenious plan to have her painted the day before I kill her, this way I will preserve that beauty forever and it will never fade and also I will no longer have to put up with her, as she does annoy me so very much.
I feel no shame in what I am doing, she deserves everything she got as she was not loyal to me and was a traitor. It will benefit everyone if she is no longer about, sure some of the young men will miss her, but if I could I would have them all killed as well for flirting with my wife, but that is a bit too extreme and will just have to forget about them.
