TURKEY's WHERE WOULD YOU HIDE... OMM's TURKEY CHALLENGE...

 "Thanksgiving dinner's sad and thankless.

 Christmas dinner's dark and blue. 

When you stop and try to see it 

From the turkey's point of view..." 

 ~

 Shel Silverstein

FOREST FOLK's... MY DARK IMAGINATION's WOOD NYMPH'S CHALLENGE...

"I like the way he looks at me, 

like I am a wood nymph 

that he happened upon one day 

and just had to take home to keep." 

~

 Jenny Han

MONA STYLE INFLUENCER... SPA's STYLISH CHALLENGE...

 

"Style is knowing who you are, 

what you want to say, 

and not giving a damn" 

~

 Orson Welles

PUMPKIN PERSONALITY PIE... DIGITAL WHISPER's PUMPKIN PIE CHALLENGE...

 "Vegetables are a must on a diet. 

I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, 

and pumpkin pie." 

~

 Jim Davis

KIND FAERIE... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's FALL FAERIE CHALLENGE ...

 If you can only be one thing,

BE KIND.

FASHION PLATE... OMM's PUT A HAT ON IT CHALLENGE...

Teddy said it was a hat,

So I put it on.

Now Dad is saying,

"where the heck's the toilet plunger gone?"

~

Shel Silverstein 

THE TRAVELER... SPA's TRAVEL CHALLENGE...

 "The world is a book 

and those who do not travel 

read only one page." 

~

 Augustine of Hippo

CHECKING THE MAIL... DIGITAL WHISPER's MAIL BOX CHALLENGE...

 It is good for your health 

to step outside the house of the world. 

After all, we are not going far. 

 Only so far as the mailbox." 

~

 Catherynne M. Valente

DESERVE VICTORY... & IN FLANDERS FIELDS... OMM's SOLDIER CHALLENGE...

 

"The true soldier fights 

not because he hates what is in front of him, 

but because he loves what is behind him."

~

 G.K. Chesterton

ANGEL OF DARKNESS... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's DARK ANGEL CHALLENGE...

 "It is the unknown we fear 

when we look upon death and darkness, 

nothing more." 

~

 J.K. Rowling

MEATBALL MASTERPIECE... DIGITAL WHISPER's ABSTRACT ART CHALLENGE...

 Abstract art is a departure 

from traditional art styles

 and can exist in two or three 

dimensions.

HANG IN THERE... SPA's CHANDELIER CHALLENGE...

 I'm gonna swing from the chandelier 

From the chandelier 

I'm gonna live like tomorrow doesn't exist 

Like it doesn't exist 

I'm gonna fly like a bird through the night 

Feel my tears as they dry 

I'm gonna swing from the chandelier 

From the chandelier

~

Sia

MIDNIGHT RIDER... OMM's STEAMPUNK HALLOWEEN...

 Well, I've got to run to keep from hidin' 

And I'm bound to keep on ridin' 

And I've got one more silver dollar 

But I'm not gonna let 'em catch me, no 

Not gonna let 'em catch the midnight rider

~

Allman Brothers

DANCE THE NIGHT AWAY... MY DARK SOULS IMAGINATION's DANCING SKELETONS CHALLENGE...

 Dancing in the moonlight 

Everybody's feelin' warm and bright 

It's such a fine and natural sight 

Everybody's dancing in the moonlight

~

Top Loader

VELCOME TO MY CASTLE... DIGITAL WHISPER's DRACULA CHALLENGE...

 "Monsters are only as real 

as the stories that grant them life. 

And they only live 

for as long as we tell those tales."

"Humans were the true monsters and villains, 

more real than any novel or fantasy could invent." 

~

Kerri Maniscalco

IF I WERE A GARGOYLE... SPA's GARGOYLE CHALLENGE...

 If I could just be a gargoyle

I'd never have to dust or toil.

I'd sit on the roof and read all day

 wave at the dragons across the way.

BUT...

I would freeze in the winter

in the summer I'd boil.

The pigeons would sit 

on my head and soil.

So, I guess

I won't be a gargoyle. 

~

DSW24

A RARE SNAPSHOT... OMM's ORANGE & BLACK CHALLENGE...

 Black cauldron, black cat 

Black heart, black hat 

Black shoes, black cape 

Black magic no escape 

Black bats, black broom 

Black shadow on the moon 

Black death coming soon 

Carried out in an orange room. 

~

DSW 

PARTY ON... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION COSTUME PARTY CHALLENGE...

"I was ashamed of myself when I realized

 life was a costume party 

and I attended with my real face" 

~

 Franz Kafka

THAT CREEPY FEELING... DIGITAL WHISPER's SCARE ME SILLY CHALLENGE...

 "Death twitches my ear; 

'Live,' he says... 

'I'm coming." 

~

 Virgil

FRANKIE BABY... SPA's GEARS CHALLENGE...

 "When everyone knows you’re a monster, 

you needn’t waste time 

doing every monstrous thing." 

~

 Leigh Bardugo

HOW HAUNTING... OMM's GHOST CHALLENGE...

 "Monsters are real, 

and ghosts are real too. 

They live inside us, 

and sometimes, 

they win." 

~

 Stephen King

WANT A BITE... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION WICKED WITCH CHALLENGE...

 "People who claim that they're evil 

are usually no worse than the rest of us... 

It's people who claim that they're good, 

or any way better than the rest of us, 

that you have to be wary of."

~

 Gregory Maguire

GREETINGS DEARIE... DIGITAL WHISPER's WITCH CHALLENGE...

 "Never put your faith in a Prince. 

When you require a miracle, 

trust in a Witch." 

~

 Catherynne M. Valente

BLACK ON BLACK... SPA's RAVEN CHALLENGE...

 Blackbird singing in the dead of night 

Take these broken wings and learn to fly 

All your life, 

you were only waiting for this moment to arise

~

The Beatles

FLYING SPIDERS EGADS... OMM's WINGS ON THINGS CHALLENGE...

 "You were born with wings, 

why prefer to crawl through life?" 

~

 Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi