Argh! THREE homes??!!??
May they all welcome you warmly into their hearts... Zid
Through a Darkened Pane
by compound complex 730 Replies latest social entertainment
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compound complex
Your words are much appreciated, Sylvia! It's mutual encouragement, for sure.
Hey, Zid!
I'm a professional home- and critter-care provider. Though the vignette below has already been posted, I wanted to repost it for you, this, my impression of a huge, gorgeous house that I seem permanently affixed to. Of course, I really get out there with the sinister stuff!
THE HOUSE OF PANE
Tonight's sunset is as spectacular as any I had ever viewed from the kitchen window in my former, beloved home-sweet-home.A tiny abode it was compared to my current habitation. No longer within a mere four wooden walls of plain aspect and diminutive scale, I now am lost in a seeming infinite architectural spread that reaches toward earth's four points, an edifice of four expansive levels that demand I walk, climb, explore every one of thousands of hidden nooks and crannies. I am compelled to do this but find no joy in discovery. I want to go back, go back to the simplicity of my earlier life. I cannot.
It is becoming dark out of doors, a furtive, watery sun having limped its pathetic course through the closing chapter of a gloomy and damp spring day. Its brief, craven appearance has created more shadow than illumination, and this has tended toward my unease, prompting me to turn on each light of every room on all floors. I am alone - sometimes it is all right to be alone - but not at this time. This dwelling space of loss and loneliness holds me captive and I want only to walk out the door and go home. I can never go back.I have been locked up within. No one hears my cries for help. They are swallowed down whole by the grinning and cruel emptiness of an outwardly beautiful home that has no soul so has stolen mine.
No one hears my cries for help. They are growing fainter.
I am silent as I watch the sun sink deeper and deeper into an eternal night. It is beautiful.
It is beautiful....
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BabaYaga
CoCo, that's a Twilight Zone waitin' ta happen!
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compound complex
Hey, Baba!
Looks like that's where I'm headin'.
Thanks for stopping by.
CoCo
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ziddina
Ho, ho ho, CoCo!!! Reminds me of "The House Next Door", a "Lifetime" channel presentation starring Colin Ferguson and (??), which the critics panned but I really enjoyed it!!!
More, more!!!
Zid
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compound complex
Upon sleep's threshold, he stares languidly, vacantly above at a blackened ceiling that swirls in a descending counterclockwise motion.
The dark mass bides its time in an incremental downward slide toward the total obliteration of the bed's hapless victim. He feels no pain, though captive limbs and trunk are rendered motionless by strangler vines come creeping insidiously up through rotted floor boards. The atmosphere in the filthy chamber is heavy and suffocating, pressing down oppressively upon a man already in the throes of a gradually rising panic. He should never have allowed the pernicious beauty of this bad house persuade him stay.
Unable to open his mouth - whether to scream, whether to allow some little intake of a rapidly diminishing supply of air - the derelict manor's young lord is engulfed by regret and sorrow over matters left too long unattended, hence, unresolved ...
No other human is present to hear the pitiable young man's deathbed lament. Servants and family and friends knew when to leave.
So, too, God....
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ziddina
Good Grief! That's really scary!!! I'm almost sorry I asked for more...
But...
More! More!
Zid - who's a sucker for punish- er, scary stuff...
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compound complex
Ziddy:
CoCo
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snowbird
LOL.
Syl
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snowbird
Good morning, CoCo - Renaissance man, Homo universalis, polymathic person.
Tee hee hee.
Syl