“You’re a fool,” sighed Lucy. “There are some things even I don’t mess with. Aeya is among those things.”
~
A creepy lady with a bushy tail for a Saturday doodles.
I can imagine her being as tall as a skyscraper. Unseen by the human eye. Floating down city streets. Peering in windows. Filling workers with dread. Draining their souls without them knowing. More so than their 9 to 5s…
They passed a
building that had no roof. Iron recalled a story from this corner of
town. Eight women built a rocket in their attics over the course of
six years. They wrote a book about their exploits, sales of which
went through the roof.
The ladies managed
to get their rocket launched. Unfortunately, they never returned. It
was presumed, they were loft in space.
Man, I still feel awkward with the ‘through the roof’ punchline. It doesn’t matter how far detached you get from the original joke, it’s always there at the back of ya mind.
Iron marvelled at
the multicoloured liquids bottles inside the window. Every colour she
could imagine. Deep reds; Berry purples; Sunset yellow; Burnt orange;
Apple green. She was in awe. Cocktails from around the world
preserved inside.
“I think I knew
the barmaid, a hulking great spider robot,” pondered Copper.
Iron raised up on
her hind legs, front claws against the window to get a better look of
the inside.
“She quit bar
work,” continued Copper, “and become a web developer.”
Sorry for the squiffy posting times this last week. In-laws went down with lung and heart troubles. Been in and out of the hospital and looking after the fam at their home. The missus has moved back in with her mum for a bit while I double down on work to pay the bills while she’s a full-time carer.
If you fancy helping her out while she’s giving up work to look after the family, check out her Society6 store: society6.com/donnamariestrachan
Glass shards and sculpted steel reached up out of the ground. Clawing upwards towards the sign for the financial district.
Broken screens ticked from within what remained of the buildings. Mannequins stood beneath the screens. Papers in hands, and endless cry for more money.
Iron spotted the sign for the stock market. She wondered if they sold chicken, beef or vegetable broths.
Soup is a staple for the frugal, like me. My soup is roughly 1 500 g bag of broth. 2.5 kettles of water. 4 chopped carrots. 4 chopped onions. 4 vegetable stock cubes and 4 tablespoons Bistro veg gravy. I freeze it in bowls and heat them in the microwave. It provides between 16-20 bowls.
I follow a lot of vegetarian food blogs, and sometimes, I do wish posts could be as short as that. I get that your mums, cousins, twice removed niece is coming for the holidays from the Bahamas. I understand she’s bringing her cat, Floofoo who’s hypoallergenic and once had the mumps. And I totally agree that the new DeviantArt eclipse is awesome.
But I don’t need sixteen paragraphs of it before you tell me a recipe for simple soda bread. For love of all that is good and natural, learn some conciseness people!
I’m hoping you’ve all noticed I’ve had a guest/collaboration every Sunday for the last month. It’s something I’d like to continue. It’s an enjoyable break from my own work for me and folks seem to like hearing readings and seeing doodles of their own stories.
We love horror, humour and weird stuff. Think of Christopher Lee and Lucille Ball having a child. In a haunted house. In the Twilight Zone. With a laugh track stuck on ‘groan’.
I always give full credit and link backs to anyone who does a story for me. I also send a pile of artwork/audio/social media friendly things back to whoever writes us a post. If you’re interested in writing a story for the Fears, leave me a comment below or drop me an email to fears@gmx.co.uk and I can get the specifics of what’s needed over to you.
Serenity Blue for this weeks #Colour_Collective. I’m doing a lot of bland ones at the moment. I think I’ll keep doing them for a few more weeks, If I continue to feel uninspired, I’ll change them out for something else colour based. Maybe like the Saturday doodles I’ve posted on Twitter a few times?
Little Fears 