Holidailies 2020

Haunted

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I feel like

I am playing hide and seek with the  Christmas Spirit.

 

I put up my tree, lit it up ,hung some decorations on it and just when I thought I caught

a glimmer of the Christmas Spirit

it was gone.

 

I put my dog’s festive Christmas collar on him last night- it is decorated with holly

wreaths and snowflakes-

and I thought I felt something behind me,  I felt a happy little tingle go up and down my

spine-

could it be the Christmas Spirit? I wondered.

It didn’t matter, whatever it was disappeared when  I turned around.

 

I hae been writing  stories about snow and ghosts and I’ve been listening to hours of

Christmas

carols and just when I start to smile I look up and that sense of adventure and fun is

gone as if it had never been there.

Poof. It must be some kind of cruel magic. Gone.

 

Gone

like a snowflake that follows you into the house

and falls to the ground when you take your jacket off

it melts away, just like that.

 

I guess I’ll keep looking for

the Christmas Spirit.

I’m fond of ghosts, so I won’t mind if they just sneak up and say ” Boo.”

Perfect Together

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Holidailies Prompt: The Perfect Holiday

Photographer Unknown

 

I can’t  leave you my darling  Halloween.

 

I can’t walk away from  your creaking floorboards

that I can hear from outside of my  bedroom door

that snap and pop like dry  brittle bones

when the clock chimes out

” It’s  midnight! “

 

I don’t want to say goodbye to the sounds of  rusty  rattling chains that crawl and slither  from

my basement, from my  attic, from the space between the library walls

to my  parlor

warmed by a roaring fire where I’m alone with my somber  thoughts and sorrowful

dreams.

How will I live without the cries of lonely ghosts, souls in torment and the Hellhounds

that wander through my garden  after the Sunsets?

Dearest Halloween, my dark friend we must part ways for now.

Let’s meet again in the Fall under the Oak Tree in my backyard,

you know the one.

The one I swung from all those years ago.

 

 

 

 

 

Tabby’s Letter

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Putting my Feet In The Dirt December Writing Prompt #1- Deliciously Dangerous

 

Dear Santa ( Saint Nick read by firelight )

I would like a girl Ninja outfit

( well, that’s doable thought Saint Nick, she’s on the Nice List )

and if it’s possible I would also like a Ninja sword

( hmmm, we have those on hand, they’re made from good and heavy solid plastic and the child’s name can be embossed on the handle in just a twinkle of an eye )

I have been very, very, very good this year and I have obeyed my parents and did everything my Father put on my chore list and I didn’t sass him back one single time. Also,  I didn’t even have to have my Mom remind me to feed my dog.

( That’s a plus Saint Nick thought. Not forgetting to feed the family dog is a BIG plus in Santa’s book- FYI)

So if I could ask for one more teensy eensy gift I hope you will think it’s ok, here it is. I’d like one of those books that summons the Dead and teaches you Curses that you can cast on your enemies. I’d like the one with the Pink glittery cover. My parents can only find the boy’s black leather book around here and I think that’s super ugly.

I hope you have a great Christmas too and please give the reindeer lots of

XOXO ‘s

From

Tabby Morningstar

After Saint Nick read Tabby’s letter he set down his coco checked his list twice, like he always does and then he nodded.

” Why the heck not Tabby, I think we can make this happen. “