Hallowe'en Trick or Treat Meme

[lost_spook]

Memed from justice_turtle and dbskyler:

In honor of All Hallow's Eve, I'm inviting trick-or-treaters to my 'door.' Comment "trick-or-treat" to this post and...well, you know the drill. Treats can be anything that strikes my fancy (pics of fave actors or pairings, one sentence fics, graphics, a few words why I'm glad to have you on my flist, etc. etc.). The more "houses

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[john_amend_all]

Trick or treat!

[lost_spook]

I started this as a sequel to TTR: Murder at the Mill. It gets less and less likely that I will ever finish it, but maybe it will answer for this meme? (I was riffing Michael Innes rather than Agatha Christie

[lost_spook]

Hmm. You might as well have all there is, since it's been sitting on my pc for two years. This takes place later

[john_amend_all]

Now I'm feeling all guilty that the snippet I wrote for you was so short :-)

(I particularly liked the Inspector attempting to question Miss Pollard).

[lost_spook]

But why? You wrote yours all new; I just fished this off the hard drive from ages ago!

[belantana]

AAAAAHHH SO GREAT.

“The elephant is, I believe, a red herring.”

And Charley! Hello again!

[lost_spook]

Thank you :-)

Did you not want a treat? (I'm not madly into Hallowe'en, but 'treats' for flisters, well... ;-D)

(PS. I was going to give you a poem. Not one what I wrote, don't worry. :-p)

[belantana]

Ooh, yes please! I've never celebrated Hallowe'en in my life and then it isn't as if you haven't given me tons of presents in recs which I haven't got around to opening yet, so to speak! But you already have a poem for me *g* I would love to hear it.

[lost_spook]

It is, sadly easier for me to rec than to read. or write.

Here is a pome what I didn't write. I like it, but it is important to bear in mind that it got tangled in my head with a post nuclear fallout book I was reading at the time (which was a long while ago). So it is an Apocalyptic poem, even if it actually isn't:

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The Child Dying by Edwin Muir

Unfriendly friendly universe

[belantana]

Oh goodness, how terrible, thank you! (I feel you are one of the few people of my acquaintance to understand htat sentence.)

Unfriendly friendly universe,
I pack your stars into my purse

Ugh.

[lost_spook]

Aww. I thought you would like it (um?) if you hadn't already encountered it. And, yes, I love that phrase and "hand in hand, twin-leafed despair".

(I copied it out long ago from a textbook for English Lit - it had Six Modern Poets, and our teacher kept making us read Robert Frost for no good reason, and I would be sneakily reading this one. As a teenager, I had a preference for death and angst over mending a wall and milking the cow. Obviously, I've long since forgiven Mr Frost for having the misfortune to be the favourite poet of a quite dreadful teacher. Of course, in this instance, I just found it on the internet...)

[belantana]

I hadn't encountered it already, no. Most of my poetry-reading of late comes via delgaserasca!

Ha, don't all teenagers have a preference for death and angst? I need only flip through my secret notebooks of appalling fic (not that I realised at the time that it was fic - and not that I flip through them now if I can at all help it!)

[lost_spook]

Oh, yes, it's a Rule of Being a Teenager. :-)