A shadow descends.
Loud shrieking fills the night sky.
Something lurks out there.
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Sandy Gillman
I’m a mum to a toddler, just trying to get through the day. I like to write about the ups and downs of parenting. I’m not afraid to tell it like it is. I hope you’ll find something here to laugh, relate to, and maybe even learn from.
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FPS: The Last Flame Challenge Winners
Welcome to our first Winners Announcement of the year and to the final challenge in the Fall Poetry Series. The Last Flame invited writers to sit with endings, using fire as a central image to consider what remains when something burns out: ash, warmth, memory, silence, or the faint promise of what comes next. The strongest pieces treated endings as gradual rather than sudden, allowing them to flicker, dim, and linger.
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Creepy and ominous! Thank you so much for sharing it on the link!
Perfect atmosphere for spooky season!
Love the atmosphere. A sound with no face. Not knowing where that shrieking was coming from, but instilling the fear inside us while the mystery lingers. Outstanding work Sandy 🤗❤️
Vivid haiku! The possibilities are vast!
Omigosh...scary and ominous. lock the door.
Some serious chill and Atmospheric tension hidden in those lines sandy. Amazing stuff @Sandy Gillman
Short, sharp, and cinematic, this captures that sudden rush of fear perfectly.
Your lines really instills that spooky feeling , drop by drop.
A well-wrought scary haiku!
Well done, Sandy!💖
Very spooky. I think I will just stay indoors.
it comes for you...hide!
I could almost hear that shrieking. Loved your poem!
Oooh shivers!