[Here is my entry for MindLoveMisery’s Tale Weaver #105, The Dark Side
The challenge is to write a horror tale, something dark and scary (if possible…asking for “scary” is like asking for “humor.”) I usually don’t write this kind of thing, but here goes….]
https://mindlovemiserysmenagerie.wordpress.com/2017/02/02/tale-weaver-105-the-dark-side-02-02-17/
Some call them “entities,”
the mysterious forms that appear
out of the dark identities
that linger beyond their time to disappear.Would they remain if the light fails
when the switch malfunctions
or a passing cloud the bright moon pales
or if we freeze before we give in to compunctions?Or if our night visitors are figments of imagination,
as we reassure our waking senses,
would the benefit of a new orientation—
like turning our backs to them—compense?Just think, how a chilly shiver might give us pause…
if Mr. Poe’s “tapping,” instead of just a black bird,
had been in fact a creature’s pecking claws,
an unspeakable thing from a mired pit, so untoward.So what if the cloudy caricature figure (our entity,)
solemnly menacing from the dark places beside our bed
would not fade into nothingness at flash of first light…
but take form of the night terror within our head?© Sometimes, 2017
Excellent exploration of the dark side….thank you for participating in this week’s Tale weaver..
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spooky…I scared myself thinking over my poem of the entities. (left the light on most of the night, how weird is that?)
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I like the references to Edgar Allan Poe and the last paragraph is especially dark and menacing. Night terrors with us when the lights go on — scary.
Nice job walking on the dark side!
Thanks for participating.
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thanks…this is different than my usual goody gumdrop type pieces. It was fun to do. Fortunately my entities are not particularly menacing…
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Nice to move out of our writing comfort zones some times. Glad you enjoyed the experience.
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well, I slept with the light on … feeling sort of dumb, also take my own work seriously. ha! 🙂
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I’ve slept with the light on — at least a bright night light.
Good to take your own writing seriously — that makes it more powerful reading for others.
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yes…my “little bunny froo froo” pops up now and then to erase some of the darker thoughts. 🙂
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