Category: Spooky
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Tentacles
#Writeclub #Ocean #Monsters Manchester, Oct/Nov 2022 Taken in a moment everyone thought the creatures in the tank looked normal, in fact – they looked really nice with their bright and tangy colouring. The problem was their luminous lunches applied to the water each day – as they ate – they grew creeping out of the […]
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Trick or Treat ?
#Socs #Halloween #Trick #Treat #octpowrimo No lanterns coming to the front porch No ghosts floating past the door No Vampires not worrying ’bout their canines No Werewolves coming to explore The street is surprisingly quiet the children all indoors as parents keep them from bugs in the air and other nasty spores But there’s bobbing […]
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Eerie
Eerie Entering an empty house can be Enough to make the most brave of people shiver Rickety gates and floorboards don’t half make a noise If the wind travels over them, it’s like something is there Expecting you, but there’s nothing to be seen
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Eerie
eerie Eerie, by Brian F Kirkham The most frightening thing about Halloween – Nothing’s going on! No cars moving down main street No children around saying “Trick or Treat” Not a sound of a Movement in the midnight air Look out of the window – there’s nobody there but floating through air – the […]
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Shiver
Shiver The change in the seasons It leaves you cold as you make your way walking through the woods First frosts paint delicate crystals across fallen tree leaves they crunch underfoot as you make your way home as jack frost paints you pull at your coat wrapping your scarf tight round your throat […]
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Little Ghost
A poem in response to the prompt Ghost A little ghost went out to play but found the children ran away when he appeared that hallowed night and wondered what gave them a fright He’d been sat all alone in that old spooky house with no one to speak to but a passing mouse who […]
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Shadow v.2
Shadow Appearing upon the arrival of the summer sun following you everywhere you go casting its presence across rocky headland, and ocean floor it loves the sunshine and eats it up but disappears from view upon the sight of grey skies he rises upon cliffs and stretches across sand attached to you – he’s one […]
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Superstition
Superstition I was due on the 13th April (arrived early on the scene) had looks to break a mirror in pieces – sharp but clean Kept a black cat at home which would take on local dogs and would sit in all kinds of weather in puddles deep for frogs And Lucky shamrocks grew in […]
The Inkwell 