Halloween Journal – Heart and Teeth

September 23, 2026 / animar64 / Leave a comment

Halloween Journal Prompt: #16- What do I have in common with a ghost, zombie, and werewolf?

In my loneliness I haunt my home, the woods behind my house, the railroad tracks behind my warehouse where I work, sometimes people catch sight of me moving through my life but if you ask the people who see me they will tell you they’re not sure what it is they saw.

My hunger for life makes me roar, I feast on it when I can catch it, I gorge on the darkness and drink the moonlight and when the Sun is too bright I hid under cool wet rotting leaves or the grave that someone dug for me, but I haven’t used yet.

When I lose my way I tilt my nose up to the sky and I howl and then I run from shadow to shadow until I find my path. Then I raise my nose to the sky again and I howl just a little louder with all of my heart and teeth.

Artist: Made by musician and digital artist Clayshaper.

In The Caldron

September 23, 2026September 23, 2026 / animar64 / Leave a comment

Hauntober Prompt: POTIONS

For today’s Halloween prompt, here are three songs and spooky here are three songs about potions/poison

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Fillet of a fenny snake,

In the caldron boil and bake;

Eye of newt and toe of frog,

Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

Adder’s fork and blind-worm’s sting,

Lizard’s leg and howlet’s wing,

For a charm of powerful trouble,

Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

Double, double toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.

Cool it with a baboon’s blood,

Then the charm is firm and good.

Nighty Night

September 23, 2026September 22, 2026 / animar64 / Leave a comment

I used to be scared of the monster that hid under my bed.

It bedeviled me, it l gnashed it’s teeth at me when I lifted my quilt up and tried to look under my bed, it started to laugh just as I was about to fall asleep.

And then one night, I decided to fight back.

Just before twilight, just before the monster took it’s place under my bed I crawled out from under my covers, I dropped to the floor and then I pulled myself into it’s lair

It was nice under my bed.

It smelled like bubble gum.

When I heard the monster slither from out of my closet and just before it crawled under my bed, I heard it stop. Then I heard it grunt.

” What are you doing down there? ” it hissed like a snake.

I gnashed my teeth, I laughed and then I dared it to crawl into it’s lair to get me.

” You’re no fun ” it said.

I heard the monster slither back into my closet. I heard it bang the door shut.

I laid under my bed and I wondered what my brother was doing.

Was he asleep yet?

How about my sisters and parents?

I slithered out from under my bed. I crawled across my floor and down the hall to the other bedrooms.

This was going to be fun.

Midjourney creations and styles by Irina Shamaeva

Time To Fall

September 22, 2026September 22, 2026 / animar64 / 1 Comment

RDP Tuesday: SEASONS

Today is the beginning of the Autumn Equinox and as we know you can celebrate it with gusto.

Some people set up altars for Mabon. Some people host parties. Some people decorate their homes in fall colors like oranges and reds and browns and golds.

And then there are people like me or put their dog on a leash and go for a nice walk at dusk to get a taste of the quiet, the still and beautiful quiet that come with th Fall and of course Winter.

If the sky is clear, on these nights I do some star gazing too.

The Fall brings me peace, it brings me excitement too. Best of all, the Fall is the beginning of story telling time by firelight or candlelight..

Below I have selected some great paintings that perfectly reflect how I feel about Autumn. I hope you enjoy them and the music clips by a great pianist named James Woodward. I’ve also enclosed an instrumental version of a song that seems to be appropriate for the tonight.

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