Where are the ghosts in fairy tales?
Do they fly with the witches?
Rainbow hags in monochrome halls
Dressed dark under ebony windows
Curled around the taste of our blood
And turned to face the wall
Where are the ghosts in fairy tales?
Do they hide in the dark towers?
Sanctuaries of cerulean quicksand
Glass slippers and spider silk
Blind among the dragons
In the ancient settlements of ruin
Where are the ghosts in fairy tales?
Do they run with the beasts?
Down among the dead men
Speckled goblins, sanitised
Kissed in chains of foul beauty
Bound, and painted cold by the sun
Where are the ghosts in fairy tales?
Do they fade with the shadows?
Mirrors of the absolute
Photographed in refracted memory
And caught in the crossfire
Of a thousand myopic chandeliers
Perilous Reading 
This is great. I thought about on a deeper level… truly, where are the ghosts…
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They manifest in us, clad in the stinky mantle of disappointment.
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That’s exactly what I was thinking. Horror, ghosts, etc in literature play a subjective part within us.
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We pick them up as kids, like an infection. And they stalk though our subconscious, laying rail tracks and derailing trains. Even in the writing of the stories they were there.
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This is why writing horror is challenging still for me.
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Yeah, our own demons are the scariest of all.
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Very, Halloween-esque!
Can’t quite tell from the post what horrible thing you had to do today. There’s talk of ghosts a lot, so I’m gonna make a few guesses:
– You work at a haunted house
– You work at a graveyard
– You’re a ghost-buster!
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Oh mate, you make me laugh so much. I WISH, especially the Ghost-Buster.
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Hahaha, well you’re being all mysterious! Creative minds like mine will assume all kinds of things in lieu of the truth 😁
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Creativity wins out every time over the dullness of tax returns. How is your Tentative Tuesday? (not yet far enough away from Meh Monday)
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Ahhh, tax returns!!!! That’s a chore that certainly conjures up demons and a few curse words too! I can see why poetry won the coin toss yesterday. 😁
My day is progressing nicely. Thx.
I have a nagging headache but that’s probably because I drank less coffee today. Otherwise I’m in good spirits. This blog keeps me highly entertained. Love the interaction from all you great people!
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