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Writober 2025: Day Thirty Eldritch Horror>Response Post

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Today’s Theme: Eldritch Horror

These are my responses to the prompt post for Day 30 of Writober: Fear From Out of Space

OctPoWriMo

The Slip Over the Edge

Tentacles of multi-
dimensional reach
ancient elusive dark
where time and space
tear the explorer must
mind his mind or find
it lost in eternal spirals
of deepening madness
helpless solitary lost
the logical in battle
with the illogical
the known engulfed
by the unknowable
recruiting the possible
to convince the masses
of the impossible
amoral unfeeling giant
the senses are use-
less when encountering
the incomprehensible
slithering around the
cranial folds while
in deep space and
occupying an island
only discovered by
the shipwrecked

Writober Flash Fiction Challenge

Fear Feeders

The car stopped suddenly and our neighbor screamed, “Get out! Get out now!” Perry and I were so confused we just looked at each other. Our neighbor got out of the car which he left running, grabbed our bags out of the trunk and threw them in the ditch under a sign that said, “Don’t Feed the Fears,” on a post of a barbed-wire fence around a
dead and dried up field. The pastel lights danced in the sky over the field, touching down then rising again.

We got out and fetched our bags. “How would you even feed a fear?” I yelled after our neighbor as he drove off at high speed. Once he was out of sight we looked at each other. “Why did he do that, Perry?”

“I don’t know. It must have been the fears. What are we going to do?”

“What if no one else comes along? This place looks completely deserted. There’s nothing out here.”

“What if we can’t find any food or water?”

“What if the fears are everywhere, and there’s nowhere to go?”

With each question the lights got brighter and closer.

“Perry, I’m scared.”

“Me, too.” Perry pulled his sunglasses from his bag.

“Dang, I forgot mine. I’m afraid I’m going to go blind. Why is the light getting so bright? Do you hear it whispering? Perry? Perry? Where are you?”

Halloween Photography Challenge

For today’s photographs I decided to finish yesterday’s idea: I finished cutting the third filter, then cut all three filters in three moveable sections then folded and combined them in different ways until I came up with an eldritch horror that would cause madness if ever encountered.