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Night Frights |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now 
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by Bill Charles I knew it was Halloween, but figured what the heck, just go through the park to get home, wasn’t such a long trek… So I went right through, the creaky main gate, and as soon as I did, I had the impression it was too late… Well I didn’t know it, that is, what I was getting into, until scary things started to happen, holy phew! I heard this noise, sounded like something very angry, what was it I wondered, I certainly wasn’t going to argue… A bolt of lighting, and some scary cackling laughter, there was a ghoul person, looking just like an aggressor! I didn’t want to agitate him, so backed away did I, didn’t do any good though, as he caught me with his eye… So I turned tail and ran, later they said I was pure white, I was really scared, had a whole lot of trembling fright… And as I was running, fast as I could down that curvy path, out jumped a skeleton, with all of its wrath… A ghoul, a skeleton, wow I thought, what’s next, I shouldn’t have asked, because here comes the very best… Evil red eyes were looking, through the dark at me, and it was coming from over there, behind another tree! It gurgled and said “A’rrrrrgggg”, and other things, I said, “Wow Bill, this is not good, there are just to many beings”! My teeth were chattering, like I was chewing on a steak, hoping that that gurgling thing, only had a bellyache… Never found out what it might be, because I left in posthaste, before that ‘whatever thing’ it was, wanted me to taste! I took off out of that park, all I could say was, “Come on feet, help me get out of here, just once, make me an athlete”! So I learned my lesson, if you must walk through the park, don’t go there, when it’s Halloween and dark… Because all of those creatures, they have pretty big appetites, and there is one thing for sure, you’re certainly going to have, “Night Frights”! |
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peppermint35 Senior Member
since 2000-05-28
Posts 1106Texas, USA |
Good work!!! Feets don't fail me now!!! You should live where I do, you can always walk through the park  Peppermint Life is a Wheel |
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Rainydays Member
since 2000-10-21
Posts 324 |
Bill, what frightful fun! I smiled through each line of your imaginative tale. "holy phew!" ~~ loved that! Thanks for the spooked whimsy! Rainydays |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Bill - Didn't I tell you to stay out of that park???  |
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Kit McCallum
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Member Laureate
since 2000-04-30
Posts 14774Ontario, Canada |
"It gurgled and said “A’rrrrrgggg”, and other things, I said, “Wow Bill, this is not good, there are just to many beings”!" "I took off out of that park, all I could say was, “Come on feet, help me get out of here, just once, make me an athlete”!" Bravo! Oh, I do love a tale told from a personal perspective! Great halloween piece Bill, brimming with ghoulish delights! Best wishes, /Kit |
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Ron K. Fox Senior Member
since 2000-10-24
Posts 925 |
Geez...happened to me too last year, thank goodness someone told it was just those kids with their costumes on. Funny, but they get me every year.Great poem! |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
peppermint35 - Became an athelete I did last night, feets still moving, wow! I would love to live in a place where one can walk through the park at night. The night I love, especially in the moonlight. Thanks for your kind comments. Rainydays - Love your name! Thanks so much for coming by for a read of this little tale. And you are welcome for the thanks for the spooky whimsy. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
H'mmmm Nancy, I forgot to mention that the one in the casket is no other than I, in disguise that is. My other being is well....um....yup that's what it is! |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Kit - It really did, it really did go A'rrrrrgggg! I'm glad that you enjoyed this little tale, and thank you for the considerate comments. Ron K. Fox - Well et tu, eh Ron? See, it really can happen, if one is in the right place at the wrong time! Thanks for coming by for a read. |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Kit - It really did, it really did go A'rrrrrgggg! I'm glad that you enjoyed this little tale, and thank you for the considerate comments. Ron K. Fox - Well et tu, eh Ron? See, it really can happen, if one is in the right place at the wrong time! Thanks for coming by for a read. |
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Sven
since 1999-11-23
Posts 14937East Lansing, MI USA |
Afternoon Bill, and boy am I glad that it is!!! This one gave me a chill even now. . . Great poem. . . ---------------------------------------------------------- That which gives light must endure burning --Victor Frankl |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Sven - Geez, I'm glad that I came back on to look, as there you were! Thank you for your comments, and remember, now is the night! |
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Nan
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-20
Posts 21191Cape Cod Massachusetts USA |
Halloweeny Bump !! |
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nakdthoughts Member Laureate
since 2000-10-29
Posts 19200Between the Lines |
When young I use to be scared to walk next to bushes and would sing to myself hoping that if I needed to scream I would already have my voice working...silly huh?  I enjoyed this very much, Bill.~Wynter Bliss "The worst prison would be a closed heart". ...Pope John Paul II |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
Nancy - thanks for the Halloweeny, your graphics are great. But watch out, don't turn around, cause I is still there, behind that tree! No, that one! Not that one, this one! nakdthoughts - No, I don't think it is silly to be ready for the bushes, that is, if anything was behind them! And thanks for the great compliment, I'm glad you enjoyed this one for Halloweeny. |
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ddgoose Member
since 2000-07-25
Posts 250Baltimore, MD, USA |
Bill "took off out of that park, all I could say was, “Come on feet,help me get out of here, just once, make me an athlete”! Love it - I can picture myself walking through the park and this happening! I would have feet on fire. Happy Halloween. didi |
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angelface Junior Member
since 2000-10-25
Posts 40Savannah area, Georgia |
I love ghost stories and "night frights" (hard to believe, but yes, I love to be scared) and this one was spooooky....  I don't want to find a park in this one-stoplight town anymore...  i ride the flames of this terrible intensity and clutch them to my fingers |
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Bill Charles Member Patricius
since 2000-07-11
Posts 10619highways, & byways, for now |
ddgoose - Howdy, feet do yo' thing, I is outta here. Yup, sure scared me they did, thanks for coming by. angelface - as before, I was scared out of my wits. True story this is, ya know. Many things happen in the park, at night, on Halloweeny. Thanks for the kind comments. |
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