Night of Fright And Fantasy
There was a moon that night We wanted to walk under its light. See the glimmer as the ripples over the sea distorted it, like a photo edited. But we were not alone in this desire.
For the dead were settling in under their mud roof and something was shuffling overhead. Chains, it sounded like chains dragged across muffling grassland.
Near Halloween, the mind works in overtime fantasizing: Headless horsemen, witches, grinning pumpkins. All this and more, that had been stored on the subconsious plane. Regurgitating fantasy and fury, horror and mayhem. So much can a mind encounter.
© gillena cox 2026
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Challenge: To include the line,“the dead were settling in under their mud roof and something was shuffling overhead” by Alice Oswald in Bones
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Haha! Wonderful descriptions, Great rhythm in this ghoulful piece.
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Near Halloween, the mind works in overtime fantasizing
ReplyDeleteYes Gillena, invariably one is brought back to memories relating to Halloween! Wonderful write! Love it!
Hank
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Cleverly written - the quote feels naturally at home - Jae
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I love a night of fright and fantasy, Gillena, and enjoyed yours. I love the description in the opening paragraph, the moon’s ‘glimmer as the ripples over the sea distorted it, like a photo edited’. You slotted the prompt lines in seamlessly, and the use of sound, of the ‘chains dragged across muffling grassland’ is very effective.
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You had me with the title.....and then the CHAINS!!!! FRight indeed!
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Indeed the mind encounters much, nicely dark.
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