Dia Del Muerto, Mexico City Marty kept his eyes open as they hurried through the community merriment. A loudspeaker interrupted the music, announcing the beginning of the parade, which meant the Sugar Skull Zombie Society’s float would soon start to move – and it did. The zombified young men jumped onto the moving red, white,…
Category: horror
TSM 205 — Haunted Diner
“The Whitehouse Diner” Photo by Aaron Segreaves Haunted Diner I can still hear them, their laughter, the plates and glasses clinking. I can still hear them, when youth’s engine blushed our cheeks. Spied then I, two entwined through the glass, heart sinking. Flames grew tall; I torched them all without thinking. I can still hear…
Court of Federal Claims Dismisses Bad Men Clause Suit over Sexual Abuse Perpetrated by Stanley Weber — Turtle Talk
This is one of those cases where you wish you were in a nightmare and could wake up from it. It is about a known pedophile that abused and exploited children at a health clinic for over 20 years. The pedophile was eventually charged and convicted for some of the abuses years later and now…
TSM 182 — Consumed
Consumed On lonely nights I see you therewhen moonlight steals into the roomor candles flicker in the gloom.When all’s asleep but me and you. When dawn’s song seems so far awayon sleepless nights, I hear you there,the creaking board upon the stair;your scratching in the ceiling tile. When mist is thick along the groundand seeps…
Actions Related to Indian Boarding Schools — Turtle Talk
Yesterday’s National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools came with two developments. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Sharice Davids, and Rep. Tom Cole reintroduced a bipartisan bill to establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. The bill text is available here. In addition, Interior issued a press release announcing that […]…
#FSS 10 — Planet of the Apes Revisited — warning: sensitive material. read at your own risk
My hair stood on end, a shiver raced down my spine, and a lump came to my throat when I… My hair stood on end, a shiver raced down my spine, and a lump came to my throat when I saw that my voicemail had messages from the school and from the hospital. As dread…
#FF — Once Upon a Time
PHOTO PROMPT © Alicia Jamtaas WARNING: disturbing content, so please skip if you need to. Bel loved fairy tales as a child. She imagined herself The Woodsman instead of Red Riding Hood; the Prince, not Rapunzel; and the Witch, not a child baited by sweets. As a scholar, her interest in myths…
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