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Lights shine from within though no one’s lived there for years. The unliving, though...
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Grave Warning
If you be brave, pass through this gate
but be forewarned there death awaits.
On this dark night, old headstones glow.
Bones shift and stir in graves below.
Outstretched limbs point to the sky.
Leaves rustle as fanged bats pass by.
When midnight tolls on Halloween,
ghosts rise to haunt this eerie scene.
The gate will close as morning nears.
Those trapped inside will disappear.
Next Halloween when the gate swings wide
they’ll at last return from the other side.
The Great Escape
If only Leroy had distracted the guards a bit longer, they would have made it over the fence to freedom.
Leroy had warned them to wait for nightfall before storming the fence, but they didn’t listen.
Leroy said the grass was greener on the other side, but some had been behind bars so long it had begun to grow on them.
Leroy gave up on helping the captive trees and went back to the greener grass.
Cauldron Quandary
Boiling, bubbling, very troubling. Make just one batch or go for doubling?
Sea Spectres
fog bank steals ashore pirate ghosts from sunken ships unseen plunderers
It Takes All Kinds
Underfoot
autumn leaf carpet shifting patterns in the wind green grass underlay
Halloween Rocks
Catch of the Day
spider sleeps in web dreams of netting trophy flies wakes to find stink bug
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