CHRISTMAS GHOST MASTERPIECE: ‘A Christmas Carol–STAVE TWO’ by Charles Dickens
“Where have you been Robinson Crusoe?”– Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
Category: darkcomedy
CHRISTMAS GHOST MASTERPIECE: ‘A Christmas Carol–STAVE ONE’ by Charles Dickens
‘Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a door-nail.’ –Charles Dickens (A Christmas Carol)
FOREST FANTASY HORROR: ‘The Stolen Child’ by William Butler Yeats
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the calves on the warm hillside
Or the kettle on the hob
Sing peace into his breast,
Or see the brown mice bob
Round and round the oatmeal chest.
For he comes, the human child,
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world’s more full of weeping than he can understand.–William Butler Yeats (The Stolen Child)
The Skull & Bones Collection: Thomas Swafford’s “Rubbed The Wrong Way”
“It was like something out of an apocalyptic movie. The only cars to be seen were parked. The streets were completely empty, not a person was in sight. “Has there been a disaster?” she said out loud.”—Thomas Swafford (Rubbed the Wrong Way: Put Some Thought Into Your Wish)
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