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An All Hollows Eve Tale
Summer is past and the land is preparing for winter as the days grow shorter and colder. The leaves on the trees are all aglow in yellow and orange as I walk down a dusty country lane boardered on each side by a split rail fence. The corn has been harvested and the stalks baled to provide winter feed for the cattle. The scarecrow now looks forlorn in the field as all the crows have flown south for the winter. For today is All Hollows Eve the day of rememberance for the dead and the year that has past.
We live in a modern world of light, high speed communication and travel. Where the marvels of science and technology take on the awe that was once held for God. So far has civilization moved since the Enlightenment, where the minds of men broke with supersition and were set free to create and invent. Moving mankind into the modern world, but the world has not changed for there are still those dark forces that lie waiting in the shadows. Where all one has to say is "Booo" to scare men down to the bone. One just has to know how to conjure those forces. The pumpkins are all carved and lit with candles which highlight the grotesque masks carved into them. Tonight is the night of witches, ghosts, hob goblins, faires and elves. The night the children roam about with license to cause mischief. Tonight is the night that the ghosts in the cemetary rise from their graves and the scarecrow comes alive. With eyes burning like coals stoked in the furnace of hell the scarecrow roams about the fields and lanes excoriating those who have forsaken the old ways in favor of the modern. For the old ways are strong, gaining strength from the primal forces of earth and heaven. Called upon the the heavens respond with thunder and lightening, the earth with the cold winds of winter. Enough to send a shiver down the spine of a traveler on a dusty country lane. Off in the distance one hears the merriment and laughter of children scurrying about on All Hollows Eve. Copyrighted
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H.P. Lovecraft?
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Oh, sorry. Please consider the comparison a compliment then. Nicely written.
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The question that I have to ask is did the prose create images or pictures in your mind...and did that spark an emotional response.
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Yes and yes.
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Ayo Irpin, Ukraine!
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Charyou tree.
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