HOT DAMNI love this time of year. The leaves turn all different colors, the weather begins to get cooler and it’s a time of year when I like to believe that all the stories that start with “It was a dark and stormy night…” take place. With Halloween fast approaching ghosts, vampires, werewolves, witches and all sorts of other ghoulies become a little easier and a bit more fun to believe in. If you’re like me you kind of like to let your imagination run away with itself. That’s what I mean by fun and easier. Our world certainly would be a more interesting place if these creatures existed in their storybook fantasy depictions. But who’s to say for sure. Every culture the world over has stories of vampires, demons, witches, ghosts and the like. Maybe there’s something to these creatures of the night.
So tonight when you’re trying to go to bed never mind the tap, tap tapping on your window, it’s just the wind blowing a branch against it. Oh, and that shape that looks like it could be a humanoid figure? Don’t worry. It’s just some clothing on a chair. I’m pretty sure that there isn’t a boogeyman in your closet, a monster under your bed or a demon at the foot of your bed…pretty sure.
That creaking you may have just heard isn’t a zombie coming to eat your brains. And pay no attention to that shadow over there on the wall. That’s not a grinning disembodied head hiding in it. While I’m thinking about it better lay on your stomach tonight because you don’t want to wake up with a ghostly face a few centimeters above yours.
Happy fall everyone!
Sleep tight, Dylan