A dark and gloomy evening – a dreaded long night ahead … the heavens were dark and broody … what had induced her to stay home … she couldn't imagine – she hated the uncertainty.
Willow tit ( a sweet little bird!) |
That music infiltrated … it wouldn't go … it was taking over … especially now she remembered the lyrics … tit-willow-tit-willow-tit-willow …
Long ago alone the tv glowed … that song again … the setting - a murder … how did he die? Now all was in deep murky darkness … the garden stretched out … falling away towards a gurgling stream …
Even though it was the black and white era … she remembered the images … that song always brought shivers to her spine … why … no idea – but along her journey of life … there were some horreurs …Tangled undergrowth
Time to put the Tit-Willow … back in its box – til the tune raises its ugly head and resonates again, as it surely will …
I don't seem to do well for October horrorfests … remembering my post for October five years ago – almost to the day …Grey image: Willow Tit
So after mental reference to my Dark Places WEP posted seven years ago … and my thoughts on Joan of Arc and her ending, found as we're covering the Plantagenet era in our history group … horrors abound throughout the centuries … I'm almost bowing out …
That Tit-Willow song will, apparently, always bring up the anxious senses … I'm off now - a gloomy evening awaits … I'll catch up properly next week …
Horror: I avoid if I can … happy for all other prompts! Thanks WEPPERS … and BLOGGERS … see you soon …
Michaelangelo's
Damned Soul (c1525)
Dark Places post - October 2017
The Passion of Joan of Arc 1928 film
The Mikado by Gilbert and Sullivan - a comic opera ... though that tune gives me the heebie-jeebies ...
Hilary Melton-Butcher
Positive Letters Inspirational Stories
3 comments:
There is more than enough horror in the real world for me. I don't seek it out in fiction.
I wonder why that song haunts you?
And thanks for this very interesting WEP post. I must catch up on some of the others.
I can’t take horror either - but it’s never struck me in the Mikado!
I do not know the song at all and I am thanking my lucky stars if it affects you that way I do not want to know it! Take care, cheers Diane
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