Happy Halloween, writers of the internets.
This is the second post for October 31, 2009, making up for a skipped post this past Sunday, and the last in my daily blog posting for a full month. Don't worry, I don't plan to disappear for a month or more, but I'll probably go back to taking the weekends end off, for sure.
Funnily enough, I never wrote that post on writer's block that I was intending to do, so expect that at some point in November.
Tomorrow is All Saints' Day, and November 2 is All Souls' Day, but today, the veil is thin, ghosts are coming through, and goblins prowl the streets wearing the faces of children.
Tonight might seem like a normal night in front of the television and the computer, clacking away on the keyboard in between channel surfing, but silent things drift past closed windows, rustle curtains through tightly locked panes of glass, and they can see you much better than you can see them.
All you hear are a few bars of old, tinny, music, a deep whisper behind your ear. There's a chill in the late summer air, too close to the equator to be autumn. And tonight is a full moon, so many more than the dead hunt in the shadows, in packs, looking for the lone costumed one, warmly safe in the thought that bad things don't happen to them.
Bad things happen to everyone.
Happy Halloween.
Happy writing.
~Sabrina
2 comments:
lovely moon! it's been beautiful these few nights... and you know, it didn't occur to me until seeing your post that it fell on Halloween--or All Saints? one or the other .... what a cool thing.
Thank you! My calendar said the full moon was actually on the 2nd, but this was Halloween night and it looks pretty full to me. I loved how the clouds drifted past, but weren't so thick that I couldn't distinguish them from the deep blue of the sky.
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