Poor Little Homeless Bat

If you missed this morning’s prompts post, I’m responding to Let the Bats Out of the Attic. For today’s images, I played with some rubber bats I found at the Grocery Outlet. They are supposed to stick to any surface by the little rubber discs under their wings. They don’t, but I still like them.Continue reading “Poor Little Homeless Bat”

Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic

OctPoWriMo 2023: Facing Our Fears Cara Hartley, a.k.a. Ornery Owl, who joins us from Dark Hearts Love Too on blogspot made the lovely banner above and offered it for use with our posts. Today’s prompt explores how fear affects memory. Think about something scary that happened. Now, list everything you don’t remember about it. WriteContinue reading “Oct. 3 Prompts: Let the Bats Out of the Attic”

#Writober Day 2: Feelin’ a little batty

R. I. P. XVII Readers Imbibing Peril Peril of the listen! This morning I finished listening to Dante’s Inferno. I think Clive Barker was heavily influenced by this work while making Hellraiser. Tourmaline .’s Halloween Challenge Today’s prompt is “Bats.” I used the same fabric as I did last year, but I turned it intoContinue reading “#Writober Day 2: Feelin’ a little batty”

Vespertilian Versimilitude

After posting my OctPoWriMo poem today, I happened upon #tshalloweenchallenge. Since I missed Pumpkin and monster, here’s my pumpkin that has a parasitic monster (again): Today’s prompt Bats reminded me of a poem I wrote during NaPoWriMo 2018 called “Be Forewarned: Expect Vespertilian Behavior.” I really like the word vespertilian (adjective – of, relating toContinue reading “Vespertilian Versimilitude”

V is for Vespertilian

vespertilian: adjective – of, relating to , or resembling a bat Today’s NaPoWriMo prompt is to write a warning label–for myself. So far, my mind keeps going places that are embarrassing. Hopefully, my word of the day will sort this out. I also already have a personal warning label above by office door to guideContinue reading “V is for Vespertilian”