She sits on his white chair, so eager to please. She hangs on to his every word, forgetting the time, until he says he’s well read. Her brain registers. Oh, no! Today is her first day of a new cycle and that means every hour she has to change. She gets up, but too late. As she glances down, she sees red.
Gillian’s Night
She counted sheep twice
Sleep covered her and she dreamed
In short paragraphs
Image from Pixabay/Zach T B
Love & Mercy (a movie review)
This is one of the better biopics I’ve seen. I’ve always enjoyed the Beach Boys’ tunes, but I didn’t realize how Brian Wilson’s genius was an important influencing factor for much of the music industry’s ingenuity for late ‘60s and early ‘70s rock and roll. In fact, there’s a strong case to be made that Brian Wilson’s greatness is right up there alongside John and Sir Paul of the Beatles. Uh-oh. I will now step back to talking about the film, Love & Mercy. Well edited and well produced. You get a good feel for how Brian Wilson spirals down and tries to make sense of what’s going on in his head. Continue reading
Children of God
Image from Pixabay/pixel1
Universal truth:
We are all children of God
Strive to your fullest
Loving and holy
Recognized for their virtues
Here’s to all the Saints
Happy All Saints’ Day!
Halloween Queen
Gown courtesy of Liana http://lianaspaperdolls.com/
Stepping out
As a betty till past midnight;
You don’t know my secret
Because I want you to be tricked. Continue reading
Dark Places (a movie review)
This movie is based on a book written by Gillian Flynn, who wrote Gone Girl. Similar to the movie, Gone Girl, not everything is what it seems in Dark Places. The movie starts 25 years earlier when the movie’s heroine, Libby Day, is seven years old and runs out of her house late at night to escape the slaughter of her mother and two older sisters. Cut to present when she is older and still traumatized, the now older heroine, played by Charlize Theron, is broke and looking for cash. Since the murders, she had been living off the sympathy cash she’s been receiving from the general public and the now dwindling royalties from the book about her experience. Over the years, the public’s memory and interest fade since there are always new murders of children that catch the public’s attention. Continue reading
Monster Masquerade: A Head
[A prequel to A Head on a Stick]
Jared is always scheming. But, tables are turned. He’s the receiver of a grift gone wrong. This trek to an obscure country for legendary ruins turns out to be a fool’s errand. Dizzy from trudging, he comes across a rectangular stone block with a hole in the middle. Fatigue overwhelms him as he lays flat on the length of it. His eyelids flutter shut at the same time his body is pulled into the hole. The quick forcible tug, which came from below the opening wide enough only for his lean body, popped his head off. Pop goes the weasel. Once always ahead, now he’s just a head.
[Monster Masquerade entry hosted by Fly TrapMan and Poet Rummager]
©2015 Karina Pinella
Monster Masquerade: A Head on a Stick
Fat from feasting on corpuscles and pus, the maggots exit from various orifices of the decaying head. A group crawls out from the ear canal, gummy from their travel through the waxy tunnel. They worm themselves through the tangled strands atop of what formerly held the gray mass that spills out of a gash. Drying blood completes the colorful little world of the legless larvae. Continue reading
A ‘Nuff Said Series: Breaking Brad
Image from Pixabay/Gerd Altmann
Act 1: The Interrogation
“No.”
Act 2: The Confession
“Yes.”
Act 3: The Execution
“No!”
Monster Masquerade: Cry of the Imp
Image from Pixabay/Gianni Crestani
“Mama!”
Mouth wide open,
Teeth razor-sharp,
Tongue forked like a snake
No one claims this child.
“Mama!”
Insistent cries from hell to heaven,
Drowned by the sound of the harp.
The child’s fingers shaped like a rake,
His face pitted and wild.
“Mama!”
No welcome for the heathen,
Ignored as if hidden under a tarp.
He crawls back to Devil’s Lake,
Where he was originally defiled.
[Entry to Monster Masquerade, hosted by Fly TrapMan and Poet Rummager]
©2015 Karina Pinella
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