Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
As though the world does not have enough ogres, ugly giants and evil-tempered troglodytes, they're boasting a veritable home-coming convention of eerie companions this dark, windy, cloudy night. We quail and quiver in our lairs in fearful anticipation of the night.
Oh, nothing truly sinister like black cats zooming through the sky and tyrants, dictators and other assorted thugs that habitually oppress, threaten and traumatize the helpless. No, it's the budding aspirants who find the fearsomely forbidding somehow appealing as stylistic mentors-at-large.
So, out they crawl, creep and stealthily advance, horns in place, fangs in full view and hideous laughter haunting the atmosphere. The devils and the ghouls, the goblins and the ghosts, the witches and warlocks converge.
Wait, what's this? An opposing flock of our better angels drifting toward the dark mass, their brilliant presence sparking a revolution of shooting stars with the antique music of the spheres above drowning the ghastly menace forced to withdraw as the saintly prevail!
Householders may now breathe a sigh of abated comfort. Extinguish those exterior lights ablaze to welcome the darkly-led miseries engulfed by the presence of fairies and princes. All the priceless treasures have been claimed. We may now close firmly shut our doors; no more tricks, gone the treats.
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