I know it's only September, but I'm already excited for the unholy month of haunting, October. So here it is. My ode to the ghosts, goblins, vampires, and witches. Starting today, I'm posting weekly. Each week a new song, because everyone needs a playlist for that Halloween party, and why not a flash to go along with it? After all, it's all about the ghost story, isn't it?
The first song chosen is:
"Bad Moon Rising" by Creedence Clearwater Revival
THERE'S A "BAD MOON RISING"
September's here, but something disconcerting is occurring in
Hell. There's a disturbance among the denizens below.
Even Satan is dancing to a tune we all know.
Celebrating in Hell, the ghosts and goblins are preparing to
appear. Unfortunately, the bad news is that it won't just be on Halloween this
year.
When the sun goes down. The world will awaken to an unholy
sound. All the demons, gargoyles, and ghosts will arise and take flight. Guard
your soul, don't mess around!
Lock your doors tight, for evil has arisen, and no one is
safe from diablo's intrusion.
Happy early Halloween!
100 words
Yolanda Renée © 2022
*****
This was just to prepare you for the fun
that is coming in October!
The WEP Challenge
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This is the Fear fest Challenge in which we ramp up the spook factor over here, welcoming your creepiest compositions, your most haunting and haunted tales running the gamut of paranormal, speculative, crime, and horror genres. However, as always, there are no rigid rules. Feel free to write to any genre if those mentioned are not your thing.
The prompt is based on Thriller, released in the early '80s, an unofficial anthem for Halloween and horror. Both singer and song are music industry icons. Thriller has sold 70 million+ copies worldwide and Michael Jackson, known as the King of Pop, is one of the controversial and culturally significant figures of the 20th century. They credited him with some landmark music as well as reinventing complex dance moves like the moonwalk to make it his own signature. Just like the Beatles, MJ was, during his lifetime and remains, more than a decade after his death, one of the bestselling artists of all time. He has left a massive and unique thumbprint on the music/entertainment scene of the late twentieth century.
The prompt has endless possibilities. Take the lyrics to this song - they can inspire myriad flashes - the forty thousand years of funk, the beast about to strike, the thing with forty eyes - the imagery is vivid and specific, and boy! Can they be used to craft a creepy tale or what? Or you could use the video's own storyline to write to. Use that iconic dance with the undead MC morphing into a zombie, to spin a horror flash.
Or maybe not...because hang on...not everyone needs to be a horror/Halloween junkie. Use the demons as a metaphor. Let the dance with the zombies become an inner wrestling bout with some tragic character flaw(s) in your MC. Or weave a girl-boy-movie-night narrative. Or one of a rescue mission where the hero snatches the damsel in distress from the jaws of monsters real or imaginary. Or...just write to the title 'Thriller' - no end to the tales you could tell. You see? - a million ways to go, a million things to be!
Remember it's all about fun!
See you there?
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I hope you enjoy my drabbles!
DRABBLE
A drabble is a short work of fiction of precisely 100 words. The
purpose of the drabble is brevity, testing the author's ability to express
interesting and meaningful ideas in a confined space.
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