SERENITY FOR NOVEMBER
November 1, 2017
HALLOWEEN INCIDENT
October 31, 2017
A lone hill, a substantial bump on the otherwise flat prairie, overlooked the town. A barrier fence of barbed wire circled the hill. It was hardly needed, for no resident of the town ever dared to consider for a moment setting so much as a boot toe on the hill’s flank. Terror of the hill had settled on the town hundreds of years in the past when The Terrible Incident had unfolded in gruesome detail. Since then, on Halloween, the people all descended into their root cellars and waited, not emerging until well after the sands of their hourglasses had run out and been turned to run out again 24 times.
The hill was hollow. Inside she waited, head tilted, listening. Patient. She was oh so patient. A single sound would be the signal. A single sound on Halloween would release her to feast, exulting in the bloody gore dripping from her lovely chin. The single sound she longed to hear was the fall of a foot on any street in the town.
Little Jodan did not fear the hill and thought The Terrible Incident was just a scary story, a myth. On this October 31, when the hourglass had been turned twice in the root cellar, and his parents and brothers were gathered in candlelight around the table playing cards, he managed to creep up the stairs, lift the trapdoor enough for him to crawl onto the kitchen floor, and then carefully and quietly lower the trapdoor shut. Jodan got up, tiptoed to the door, opened it, and stepped out into the street.
In the hollow of the hill she smiled.
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THE CREATURE’S EYES
October 29, 2017
the creature’s eyes
pig darting
incompetent buffoon
and don’t get me started
about
its hair
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HALLOWEEN COSTUME
October 28, 2017
THE DANCE MARATHON KWIZ ANSWER
October 27, 2017
The young lady was given the lake of her choice and 3 million dollars when she revealed her partner had been dead for the last three days of the dance.
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THE DANCE MARATHON KWIZ
October 26, 2017
That couple #51 on the left won this dance marathon was amazing because:
a. the young lady managed to convincingly drag the corpse of her partner around for the final three days.
b. the other three couples mysteriously died all at once.
c. the young lady ate nothing at all and drank only what she insisted was ‘tomato juice’.
d. the mob backed couple #7.
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WHEN THE RED LEAVES SHOW
October 24, 2017
The great brick castle on the hill wore a mantle of magic ivy. In winter the leaves were white. In summer and spring they were green. In autumn they blushed red as red. The people at their labors in the village and fields below paused from time to time to gaze with pride at the castle’s beauty. And when it came to be that at long and at last the Queen gave birth to a Princess their joy was complete. How soon was joy complete to be snatched away? Within a day.
‘Until the Princess Fair reaches her fifteenth birthday, she must never know when the red leaves show,’ proclaimed the sayer of sooth, staring with a frown at the bubbling potion in the ruby goblet.
The Queen’s mind whirled first in dismay and then in orderly contemplation. Her depth of thought had gifted her from infancy with well respected and admired serenity.
‘So,’ said the Queen, betraying no sign of alarm. In truth, she stifled a yawn. ‘I shall raise Lady Fair myself alone until her fifteenth birthday in the Far Desert.’
And the people saddened when they learned that they would lose their Queen and the new Princess Fair for fifteen years. And though, as the years passed, they maintained the castle with brush and broom for the lonely King’s sake, whenever they gazed up at it from the village and fields, it wasn’t really the same.
When Lady Fair was ten years old she strode up to the palm tree in the oasis where the Queen sat and announced, ‘This is ridiculous. I can’t wait five more years before seeing the magic ivy on my own castle home. Five years is way too long. The sayer of sooth probably didn’t know what he was talking about.’
The Queen reasoned with her daughter, as she had so done since Lady Fair had learned to talk at the age of one. And when she felt that her well respected and admired serenity had once again won the day, she said, ‘Let’s play hide the bowl in the sand.’
The Princess pretended to be content and played at hiding the bowl in sand with clever sparkle. That night, however, after waiting to hear the Queen snore in slumber, little Lady Fair burrowed under the tent and ran free in thrill. She headed straight for the brick castle fifty miles distant. She knew the way? Had she not pried the knowledge from one of the young supply caravan attendants? She had.
Red of red was the magic ivy embracing the red brick castle. Dawn broke. Lady Fair stared. Oh, glory! Red of red! The world trembled. The wings sprouted. Lady Fair was Lady Fairy. She flew off into the sky.
The Queen returned from the Far Desert. She sat with the King each morning gazing at the sky. Sometimes the King said, ‘Five more years were all we needed to keep her.’ Sometimes the Queen nodded. Sometimes she didn’t.
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A PAIR OF SENTENCES BY GWEN RAVERAT
October 23, 2017
“When my granddaughter Anne was about five, she said to me one day: ‘Grandmamma, when I grow up, I think I shall be a witch. There are too many ladies, don’t you think?'”
from Period Piece, a memoir of a Victorian childhood.
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