The whistling deer head is stuck to the wall. It cannot get you from there.
Rabid
At Flashes in the Dark
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17 comments:
I see that head and I cannot help but think "Three being thy holiest number... pull the pin and throw the grenade" (Monty Python)
-bryan
Haha! Brian, you and monty are on the right track. The story link works now (sheesh! I'm seriously off my game this week.)
Thanks for stopping by. ;-)
I used to visit a summer home where there was a deer head mounted on the wall in the living room. It's glassy always freaked me out!
Clowns are spooky, too. So your story brought the best of scares to me. :D
Bunnies are cute, though.
The "whistling deer head" reminds me of Evil Dead, and the story was just as freaky in its own way.
Great writing as always!
That was good, very effective! The clowns -- eeeewwww! Remember the one from Poltergeist?
That whistling deer head reminds me of the moose head that was haunted by mice in that Bugs Bunny episode where Porky Pig and Silvester the cat stayed overnight at that creepy hotel... great imagery!
Marisa- Mounted deer heads really disturb me. I agree about the glassy eyes...ugh, its like they are watching you. Accusing. LOL, I like bunnies too, but not the ones in the story. You don't want to know what they can do.
Chris- Funny you bring up Evil Dead reference. Glad it creeped you out, even if the story was super short.
Nicole- I remember that very cartoon! It FREAKED me out as a kid.
It's like this for me: If it is dead and if it's hanging on the wall. I'm feeling rather uncomfortable. Might as well go sit on a grave, recline against a headstone, and eat dinner.
Thanks everyone!
For reals this time... love that!
I do remember that and I find it exceptionally creepy because I can see my own children attempting something similar!
Erin! This made me laugh. Remove all mounted deer heads and you should be just fine. ;p Thanks, girl!
I already have a frikkin' fear of clowns, Jodi. This doesn't help ;)
I generally find taxidermy creepy, but I really liked your story! :)
Hee..what about a taxidermied clown? (!!!) Ok, I'm drawing the line there. Yikes. Now THAT freaks me out. Now I might have to write about that.
oh dear... nightmares!
:)
LOL,You have nothing to fear, Michelle. Your little ones love you so. ;-)
This packs a punch - but maybe they're benevolent clowns...? ;-)
You are a positive thinking lady, PJ. Benevolent clowns. You know, bizarro writing takes society's deepest fears and twists them as opposite to popular belief. So it would be kind of neat to write about a benevolent clown that everyone is afraid of despite the measures it goes to to prove that he's really just a nice guy.
ANYWAY (if I haven't lost you yet) Thank you for the kind comment and for reading! I need to go by and read your fridayflash.
Jodi, I love the way that you can take a reader on a journey in a paragraph. Your story endings say just enough, but always leave the reader wanting more. Now tell me, what is your obsession with bunnies?
P.S.
I love Mt. Rainier.
Thank you, Shane. I like to think of flashes as a snapshot in a person's life. If you can describe the actions & thoughts just right, everything clicks into place (like a picture).
Bunnies. I like bunnies. But not the rabid, festering kind (the bunnies in this story is a symbol). Or the kind with knives.
Rainier- it's incredibly beautiful. ;-)
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