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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
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 Look at my picture to the left of your screen. How foreboding and silent. Do you think I'm smiling? Well, if you don't take this challenge, I will rise up to my full 6 foot 10 height and say "Boo." To YOU!!!  Now, it's getting closer to Halloween. I'd like to see some ghost story action. Not gore. Not shock. But intense, thought-out, spooky stories the way that Msr. Poe used ta writes em. Or, if you're like me, a poem of some sort, since prose is beyond my humble league. Post it in Holiday, since Halloween is a holiday. Or open, if you like that sort of thing. Heck, Prose if ya want. Just posts em so's I can reads em! I'll see you there!  HOO HA HA HA HA HA!  |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
I think it's time for a story...I'll see what I can do! Thanks for the inspiration.  |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
 I'm glad you're taking the challenge, Sharon. Can't wait to see what you whip up!Now, here's a poem of mine (older), to give everyone an idea of the type of scariness I'm looking for. Feel free to diverge drastically from this model, as it's only an example. By the way, Lori won't let me get away without saying that this poem is based on one of her creations, Bronwen, that first appeared in her story God of Hailstones. Onward! (and  es for Lorigrrl!)The Dark Man Comes Cane tip flashing rain, the dark man comes, waiting for the hail to fall and pummel the sun. A void in the shape of a centerless man. Can't find the arms where his hands begin. Touch this mirror, child, but do not reflect. Darkness breaking over him. Bow and genuflect. Succumb, mirror child. Into this river bed. In the black cherished fragments of my heart and my head. In the quiet coal dust, sweep those lips away. Burn forever, child. It's not a mistake. In your cold surrender, in the fragment of your eyes. That we must, dear cinder, burn what we despise. As we hold on we will slip away and bask in the cold shiver of our birth and decay. You want to see my teeth? Cusp the candle flame. Dig me into this ground so we will always stay the same. "I spy ... with my little eye ... something that begins ... with end." [This message has been edited by bsquirrel (10-05-2002 02:20 AM).] |
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Christopher
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Member Rara Avis
since 1999-08-02
Posts 8296Purgatorial Incarceration |
well, since sharon so kindly pulled up my icky old post from over three years ago (i think in response to a similar challenge, lol) i will see what i can do about completing the adaptation of it i began earlier this year, bringing it more up to date with my style and growth. |
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SEA
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Member Seraphic
since 2000-01-18
Posts 22676with you |
I have one, I don't know how you'll like it, but I've had something running around inside me, and your challenge brought it out. SO even if you don't like it, thanks Mike for helping this find it's way out of me I'll post it in Holidays....and seriously, let me know what you think ok? /pip/Forum26/HTML/000293.html [This message has been edited by SEA (10-05-2002 04:17 AM).] |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
Scare you? Easy. I think my husband finds you attractive.  |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Karen, you told me he only had eyes for me. You lied LOL Scary poetry, I'll have to dip into my early stuff. see if it will scare you guys as much as it scared my family and the local shrink. If that doesn't work, rent the film "the others." Best horror/suspense film I have seen in ages. El riesgo vive siempre! |
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serenity blaze Member Empyrean
since 2000-02-02
Posts 27738 |
hmmm...it's not scary, but it IS seasonal: /pip/Forum15/HTML/001244.html |
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Poet deVine
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Member Seraphic
since 1999-05-26
Posts 22612Hurricane Alley |
Posted in Holiday! |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Going to check 'em all out! Thanks, everyone! [This message has been edited by bsquirrel (10-06-2002 02:39 AM).] |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Oh, and Karen? Regarding your husband? I thought only Lori knew my dark secret (see dark secrets thread for even less of what's going on).  MikeySleepNow |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Ok Mike..a repost from long ago.... perhaps not what you are looking for... but here is my addition to your request Draw closer still To these shadows That hide the repugnance daylight shuns. You are safe… ( I say with a grin) as long as my ire is not hunting a friend Venture into this world Of darkest delights I’ll show you the scenery And explain all the sights. There are monsters here Where we go That you haven’t seen Until inside you grow Yes… It is strange To be given a chance To meet with the Devil and ask for a dance But once you have ventured Here in the dark Walking in daylight Is naught but a lark So draw closer still To these shadows That hides the repugnance Daylight shuns… It’s a journey my friend That’s only begun….. |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
What is this doing here? Sheesh, repost immediately! No need to be shy about yr words, Ron. They rock the boat (up the mountain, and back down ).Mikey |
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Cpat Hair
since 2001-06-05
Posts 11793 |
Nah Mike..it was posted on the boards before... just wanted to give alittel something back to you for your challenge.. If I come up with any other gruesome thoughts and poems..I'll post them on the baords, but the old stuff...lies for the most part where it belong...locked in the cellar. :-) |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Buried beneath the boards? The hideous beat of the old man's heart? DISSEMBLE ME NO MORE! Um ... Awright. Believe me, I understand. I've written some zombies meself. |
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brian madden Member Elite
since 2000-05-06
Posts 4374ireland |
Don't know about you but this one scares the hell out of me, there is nothing like a little religious insanity to frighten people. I thought I would remind people that Hell back into Helloween. Posting this for kicks to remind myself how serious and prolific I was back then, thankfully I have lightened up and.... now struggle to finish a poem.. strange that. Pavement stones lead up to the charnel house. (Inside: Insects spill out of a numb mind.) I stretched my hands to the infinite skies but now I must enter (Inside: .Down the corridors of steel, reflecting a centuries atrocity, to the darkening centre of The Hive; a haven of our immortality where the withering vessels of God’s children are given way as hosts. “ Life after Death. You shall have it will come forth from inside.” (Inside: Eggs spawn larva, Locusts sing the lullabies to the new born. Death’s horsemen trumpet the Day of Revelations, Welcome The Lord of the Flies). The prostitute embraces her flock \ her children. On stroke of lust she blinds all with her clipped wings. REVELATION 9.4: they remain passive only creating not destroying. The stench is unbearable, We when born have it trust upon us and are told to bask in its glory until we return to the origin: The Charnel Hive. (Inside: It writhes churning a sickness to feed us. Burned upon us we bear its image. In death we join The Hive: our Promised Land attained). El riesgo vive siempre! |
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Anvrill Senior Member
since 2002-06-21
Posts 710in the interzone now |
Well, I've finally done it. Sorry, babe, but the story didn't work. You know me and having to include a character's life story just to write a two page plot (thus making it a twenty page monstrosity). So.But I did a poem! Check it in dark. And guess what broke my writer's block? Red Dragon. *swoon. melt. tremble. shudder.* God.... Ralph Fiennes... Running around buck naked. With tattoos running from the top of his back down to the top of his thighs. That was definitely an unexpected treat in this TWISTED masterpiece of a movie.The blind girl goes down on him while he's watching a home video from the next family he's plotting to kill!!!! I never thought I'd see anything so intensely messed up in my life. Ralph Fiennes has the perfect voice for evil. I first saw him in Wuthering Heights (playing Heathcliff; duh), and since then, his voice has been the star in all my most erotic nightmares. So needless to say, watching Red Dragon (with Edward Norton in it, to boot!) sorta got my mind racing around a bit. I had dark line after dark line just RUSHING out of my brain when I got out of the movie, and slowly the topic changed from the disturbance of that movie to the disturbance of my own mind. The line I came up with last night towards the end of my sudden inspiration stayed with me until this morning: "The hushed silence amidst lightning shattered trees." And so I was in the forest in mindset, and so I could write the topic I've been wanting to for so long. So check out dark! Please? remember the sound |
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bsquirrel
since 2000-01-03
Posts 7855 |
Brian, that was a positively Lovecraftian (mis)reading of the Bible. Enjoyed.Babygrrl. You saw Red Dragon, hm? Sounds like y' enjoyed it. It'd be the type of movie I'd want to watch if you were in the theater with me. So we'll have to make that happen sometime. *kiss* Thanks for taking the challenge, babygrrl. Can't wait to talk to you t'night. About Red Dragon, yr trip down and other things. *long hug*[This message has been edited by bsquirrel (10-10-2002 02:23 PM).] |
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