Large Fierce Mammal

Douse that light and revel in the Darkness.

“Welcome, Dear Reader, to yet another season of Dark Sentiments; being our traditional 31 October days of musings, revelations, exposé, poetry, literature, visual arts, and myriad dark expressions of the Human spirit, all chosen from the sort most in the world have spent the past year trying desperately to avoid, or pretend into nonexistence.” ~ Dark Sentiments 2013 – Day 1: A New Beginning

If you are reading this, you’ve made it through another year since Dark Sentiments 2013, and have somehow found ample forgiveness in your heart to return. We trust you won’t be disappointed in this October’s offering.

The twelve months since we last met for this event have been nothing short of a pitch black cornucopia; but ah well. Black goes with everything, and the deeper we dig, the more is revealed so that we were, for a brief time, considering petitioning for a longer October. That is, until Mrs. LFM calculated that replacing all the other months with one gargantuan year long October still wouldn’t be enough. And so, yet again, 31 days of Dark Sentiments is all you’re going to get.

So Good Reader, if you’ve come here intentionally then we welcome you with applause for your fortitude and invite you to stay the course. If you’ve arrived by accident, misadventure, misdirection, or ambush; why turn back now? Keep in mind the words of Winston Churchill who said, “If you are going through hell, keep going.”

Settle back and join us for a drink to still the racing heart … but not too still. As usual, what’s to come is best considered after dark, preferably just before bed. And then …