image link WARNING: THIS MAY BE TRIGGERING FOR THOSE WITH PTSD Father Jones had been sent by the church to the far reaches of Alaska to convert the Alaskan population to Christianity. You see, Father Jones was a weak man. He’d been bounced from parish to parish for years, as his weakness of “infatuations” with…
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Cry of the Loon
image link It was this time of year a few years ago when I decided to kayak around Emerald Lake. As I randomly explored some of the many inlets and small offshoots of the lake I heard a loon‘s call of distress nearby. Following the call, I found the pair, the brood of babies resting…
the cursed of the white house
The town hall clock struck midnight; ghouls clamored around the white house. The twelfth gong’s peal faded away; creaking echoed into silent darkness as the front door opened. Fluorescent green accented a stout figure who clomped onto the raised porch, its shellacked pompadour rising in the night like an unholy erection, belying the lack of…
I, Frances Lea-Harrison
image link When commercial time travel became reality, I was overjoyed. I would be able to return to the time when The Beatles were together. I was able to purchase front row seats to The Cavern Club for February 9, 1961. My adoration for The Beatles was such that I went way beyond that as…
#FF — Swallowed Whole
PHOTO PROMPT © Ted Strutz Every time, the dream was the same. She was piloting a small seaplane. Looking down she saw the ripples on the lake. She had a flawless landing. Exhilirated, the plane was moving towards the floating dock as the smiling resort staff walked towards her. All of a sudden a slimy…
BPS
image link When Miriam Blaylock was transformed into her ghoulish vampire self, she not only took on the hunger for blood and gained immortality. Miriam gained what resembled vampire body GPS, or for her purposes it would be better called BPS, or Blood Positioning System. With her glamour vision, she can see the body illustrated…
Twittering Tales # 147 – 30 July 2019 — Ants
Photo by enriquelopezgarre at Pixabay.com Crom, an interstellar vagabond parasite, was told to, “Get out of Dodge” with an uncanny regularity. Crom entered the Milky Way and saw edible bugs on Earth. As a shape shifter, he became clouds and waited to guzzle. Today his huge nozzle lowered; he began to eat the “ants.” [276…
Tao-Talk 