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Review: A Superior Spectre by Angela Meyer
Wow…… You know that feeling when you’ve read a book that’s so rich, so good, that you just know everything you are going to read for a while now is going to feel like fast food after fine cuisine? That’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conversation, Poetry
Tagged A Superior Spectre, Angela Meyer, book review, ghosts, Literature, neuroscience, speculative fiction, writing
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Toast
We shall drink to the days gone by Toast the memories washing over us Those we embrace And those we deny We shall drink to the days gone by We shall sing till our hearts can live Toast to the … Continue reading
The Fishermen Have Gone – Writing Prompt #167
The fishermen have gone The seas bereft of life A strange deceptive tranquility covers everything We are but ghosts Wandering through darkened streets Not a sound from stamping feet Chained to this memory of life When even the essence is … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged collage, death, fishermen, ghosts, Mindlovemiserymenagerie, poetry, Spiritual, wisdom, writing prompt
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Gathering – Part One
This gathering this night will draw from dimensions distant something new and bright and powerful that delights and gives us wisdom we might crave And on that wondrous spiritual wave our lost ones gather to us here on this the … Continue reading
Desolate Ones
We are the desolate ones Left behind as debris We cling to walls Where all is peeling, peeling away We haunt such hallways As strangers never seek to walk In empty rooms we are ghosts Left only now To haunt … Continue reading
Synchronicity and the Strangeness of Creativity
Hi So I’ve finished the first draft of my ghost story novel. But I don’t want to talk about that so much as something odd that has happened in the last few of days of writing it. To put this … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Conversation
Tagged coincidence, Consciousness, creative process, ghost story, ghosts, life and death, necromancy, novel, occult, occultist, Red Clay and Roses, Spiritual, Spirituality, synchronicity, writing
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Nothingness
Footsteps in an empty room Afternoon shadowplay Well before noon Ghostly images Flickering on the stair Feeling of presence When nothing is there Lights shining dimly When switches are off Lost faces like images On virgin cloth Banging of doorways … Continue reading
Intruders
They come at night They bite They’re shuddering With sin A wraith, a ghost They boast They’ll take us all We’ll fall Intruders deep They creep I cannot weep Nor sleep I cannot breathe Please leave I’ve paid the cost … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Poetry
Tagged dark, death, fear, ghosts, night terrors, Sleep Disorders, terror, wraiths
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The Mysterious House – for Prompt 12 – Fairytale
There once was a powerful magician who had traversed deep within the darkest regions of power and persuasion. He was so suffused in his magic that even his surroundings bent to … Continue reading
Posted in Air, Prose
Tagged alchemy, black magic, choice, dark, dark arts, delusion, denial, fairytales, ghosts, Magic, Magician, Philosophy, Spiritual, Supernatural
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Moving House
Must have bath I’m not spending the next two years Only showering Must be close to shops I have no interest in driving long distances Just to get milk Must be close to work I also have no interest in … Continue reading
Posted in Earth, Poetry
Tagged apartment, flat, ghosts, house, house hunting, household, Landlord, moving, Renting, requirements
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