Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 25: Tick Tock

| October 25, 2020

“Ticks are not new news, nor are they vaguely understood supernatural beings, and why what gets put out there for public education, even from “official” sources, veers more toward being lore than fact has always been a mystery to me. “Here in Nova Scotia, the predominant Tick species are the Dog Tick, and the Black […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 22: What Gapes Invites to Enter In

| October 22, 2020

In this month of months, ancient and time honoured Faith, lore, and legend hold that the veil keeping separate the realms of the living and the dead grows thinner by the hour, its threadbare remnants strained to their utmost by the stentorian gusts that waxing, blow between worlds to crescendo upon the night called All […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 18: Autumn Delights

| October 18, 2020

Autumn Delights By LFM A timeless Autumn pleasure is a simple pile of leaves, To toss and roll and jump in, filling chilly sweatered eves. With nothing but a rake or two, construction is a cinch, The higher heap the better, made more joyful by the inch. A heap of leaves is pleasure pure to […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 15: Truth Be Sewn

| October 15, 2020

Truth Be Sewn By LFM Should need arise to air your mind, Speak from the front and not behind. Be silent ’til to break your stillness Reflects the cure and not the illness. Don’t be as those whose mouths will close Only in their sweet repose. Let this stand as introduction to this item from […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 14: Uglification

| October 14, 2020

Uglification By LFM When the ideal state of any nation’s Not shared across its population, And any voiced opposed opinions Call to arms the frenzied minions, With history and fiction melding, Mark you now your freedom’s gelding. When princes vie for favour’s sway Each pre-proclaimed he’s won the day, Disciples bleed upon the grass, Unknowing […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 10: The Grave Digger’s Song

| October 10, 2020

Hard on the heels of last night’s The Grave Digger’s Song Book is tonight’s LFM original. Join me now on a romp through the thoughts of a Man on the subject of holes, what goes in them, and his place in the void. The Grave Digger’s Song By LFM He’s a miserable thing who won’t dig […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 8: The Witches of Wakeup

| October 8, 2020

Tonight’s Dark Sentiment is sung from the perspective of a previously unheard of Coven of Witches — The Witches of Wakeup — hidden for centuries but only now self-disclosing as the sheer unmitigated shitness of the 21st century has driven them beyond their bounds of tolerance. Short form: They’ve fucking had it.

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 4: Seek the Truth

| October 4, 2020

While tonight’s Dark Sentiment may appear to be inspired by the current state of unpleasantness, history shows that everything in it has played out innumerable times in the past. What makes it so special this time is that the travails have never before played out in such a time of simultaneous connection and division, global […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — Day 2: The Thing About Mirrors

| October 2, 2020

The Thing About Mirrors By LFM A mirror is a tricksy thing, An otherworldly portal, And nameless things may gather hence To spy, and leer, and chortle. No bargain basement “last look” is Of what I’m speaking here. Those mirrors with the mileage are The ones for steering clear. Ornately framed or simply Matters not […]

Dark Sentiments Season 11 — T Minus 2

| September 29, 2020

The subject of tonight’s fossil utterance comes to you from Day 4 of Season 9, and unlike toilet paper last March, is something that is in far from short supply. Dark Sentiments Season 9 — Day 4: Anxiety First published on October 4, 2018 Anxiety, like feeling stressed, depression, anger, boyhood, and a plethora of […]