GOLDEN WALK... SPA's AUTUMN CHALLENGE...

 "Fall has always been my favorite season. 

The time when everything bursts 

with its last beauty, 

as if nature had been saving up all year 

for the grand finale." 

~

Lauren DeStefano

LEAD US NOT INTO TEMPTATION... DIGITAL WHISPER's EVIL CHALLENGE...

"May the forces of evil 

become confused on the way to your house." 

~

 George Carlin

FRIGHT NIGHT VISITOR... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's DARK ART's CHALLENGE...

 "The baby bat 

Screamed out in fright, 

'Turn on the dark, 

I'm afraid of the light." 

~

 Shel Silverstein

HAPPY HALLOWEEN... OMM's KNOCK, KNOCK CHALLENGE...

 "Shadows of a thousand years rise again unseen, 

Voices whisper in the trees, 

Tonight is Halloween!" 

~

 Dexter Kozen

MOON SPIRITS... SPA's FULL MOON CHALLENGE...

 "The moon is a stone 

and the sky is full of deadly hardware, 

but oh God, how beautiful anyway."

~

 Margaret Atwood

EGAD IT's A DEAD GUY... DIGITAL WHISPER's SKELETON CHALLENGE...

 "A jolly young fellow from Yuma 

Told an elephant joke to a puma; 

now his skeleton lies 

beneath hot western skies- 

the puma had no sense of huma" 

~

 Ogden Nash

ANNIEBOO's WITCH... OMM's WITCH CHALLENGE...

 "It doesn't matter who you are

 or what you look like, 

so long as somebody loves you." 

~

 Roald Dahl

TRY TO REMEMBER... SPA"S NOTE TO SELF CHALLENGE...

 "You forget what you want to remember, 

and you remember what you want to forget." 

~

 Cormac McCarthy

ME & JACK... DIGITAL WHISPERS JACK-O-LANTERN CHALLENGE...

 "The jack-o-lantern follows me

 with tapered, glowing eyes. 

His yellow teeth grin evily. 

His cackle I despise. 

But I shall have the final laugh 

when Halloween is through. 

This pumpkin king I’ll split in half 

to make a pie for two." 

~ 

Richelle E. Goodrich

YOU'VE GOTTA HAVE HEART... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's VAMPIRE #2 CHALLENGE...

 You've gotta have heart 

All you really need is heart 

When the odds are sayin' you'll never win 

That's when the grin should start

Cause you gotta have heart.

~

Damn Yankees

THE HAUNTING... OMM's GHOST CHALLENGE...

 "Ghosts don't haunt people

their memories do." 

~

 Alexandra Bracken

REVENGE OF THE RAVEN's... SPA's POE CHALLENGE...

 

"I do not suffer from insanity, 

I enjoy every minute of it." 

~

 Edgar Allan Poe

QUEEN OF THE NILE... DIGITAL WHISPER's CLEOPATRA CHALLENGE...

 "I never really thought about 

how when I look at the moon, 

it's the same moon as Shakespeare 

and Marie Antoinette and George Washington 

and Cleopatra looked at." 

~

 Susan Beth Pfeffer

CAUGHT UP IN AUTUMN... OMM's ORANGE & BLACK CHALLENGE...

 "The sun is setting in a burnt orange sky;

 the cliffs are black silhouettes; 

the sea, liquid silver." 

~

 Laura Treacy Bentley

MIDNIGHT AT THE MUSEUM... SPA's MUSEUM CHALLENGE...

 "Life did not intend to make us perfect. 

Whoever is perfect belongs in a museum. "

~

 Erich Maria Remarque

RIVER RIDER's... DIGITAL WHISPER's WATERFALL CHALLENGE...

 "There is a hidden message in every waterfall. 

It says, if you are flexible, 

falling will not hurt you!" 

~

 Mehmet Murat ildan

DARK HEART... MY SOUL's DARK IMAGINATION's...VAMPIRE CHALLENGE...

 "Evil is always possible. 

And goodness is eternally difficult."

~

 Anne Rice

OH OCTOBER... OMM's PUMPKIN CHALLENGE...

 "October, baptize me with leaves! 

Swaddle me in corduroy 

and nurse me with split pea soup. 

October, tuck tiny candy bars in my pockets 

and carve my smile into a thousand pumpkins. 

O autumn! O teakettle! O grace!" 

~

 Rainbow Rowell

JUKEBOX MAGIC... SPA's JUKEBOX CHALLENGE...

 "Ninety-nine percent of the world's lovers 

are not with their first choice. 

That's what makes the jukebox play." 

~

 Willie Nelson

A COLLECTION OF SPOTS... DIGITAL WHISPER's SPOTS CHALLENGE...

 "When the light turns green, you go. 

When the light turns red, you stop. 

But what do you do 

when the light turns blue 

with orange and lavender spots?" 

~

 Shel Silverstein

THE FALLING LEAVES... OMM's AUTUMN LEAVES CHALLENGE...

 

"Autumn leaves don't fall, they fly.

 They take their time and wander 

    on this their only chance to soar." 

~

 Delia Owens

WE ARE THE WORLD... SPA's PEACE CHALLENGE...

 We are the world, we are the children 

We are the ones who make a brighter day 

So let's start giving 

Oh, there's a choice we're making 

We're saving our own lives 

It's true, we'll make a better day 

Just you and me

~

Lional Richie & Michael Jackson

VINTAGE DECO... DIGITAL WHISPER's VINTAGE LADY...

 "That is no way to speak to a lady. 

I am not old. 

I am vintage." 

— 

T.J. Klune

PURPLE COW... OMM's PURPLE & YELLOW CHALLENGE...

 I never saw a Purple Cow, 

I never hope to see one, 

But I can tell you, anyhow, 

I’d rather see than be one!

~

Gelett Burgess

SQUARED... SPA's SQUARES CHALLENGE...

 "Here's to the crazy ones. 

The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. 

The round pegs in the square holes. 

The ones who see things differently. 

Because the people who are crazy enough 

to think they can change the world, 

are the ones who do." 

~

 Steve Jobs