Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 28: Hellfire, Damnation, and All That

| October 28, 2011

For my own part, I regard stories that involve people making a pact with the Devil, or an ever burning Hell pit of damnation, as suitable fodder for entertainment, but nothing else. As a case in point, in the course of my research for Dark Sentiments 2011, I found the original, accept no substitutes, Dante’s […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 27: Robert

| October 27, 2011

Robert By LFM Robert was a different boy, He wasn’t understood. His parents tried to help him out But never really could. He read a lot and got good grades, But liked to be alone, And unlike other teenaged boys He rarely used the phone. He really had no friends but he’d Been never known […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 26: Hunter’s Moon

| October 26, 2011

Hunter’s Moon By LFM By light of moon a hunter came Snow shod through winter woods, Bound home from hunt and trading trip For meat and needful goods. Moon shadows of bare birchen limbs Lay cast across the trail That led to hearth and home and wife, And respite from travail. His dearest Meg prayed […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 25: The Shag Harbour Incident

| October 25, 2011

The skies over Nova Scotia were a source of great interest on the night of 4 October 1967 as large numbers of witnesses, including members of the Royal Canadian Mounted police (RCMP), observed moving and hovering lights in the sky off most of the province’s south shore, from Lunenburg west to Shag Harbour. At approximately […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 24: A Night on the Town

| October 24, 2011

  A Night on the Town By LFM In a realm that’s near to ours There dwells a nasty thing. It has no horns, nor pointy tail, No scales or batty wing. It’s not exactly evil, mind, Though neither is it good, And when it thinks of vengeful deeds Its loins become as wood. You […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 23: Trick and Treat

| October 23, 2011

A friend of mine recently brought something to light that I had forgotten about until this morning. Back in 2008, a team led by French marine archaeologist Franck Goddio announced discovery of a bowl dating from between the late 2nd century B.C. and the early 1st century A.D, inscribed with what they believe to be the […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 22: An Insidious Curse

| October 22, 2011

Today’s Dark Sentiment is about a very real curse that stalks our girl children, our wives, our mothers – in fact every woman. It entwines them in its evil tendrils and draws its nourishment from them by draining their sense of self-worth, forcing them to suppress their intellectual and creative spirit, and filling their hearts […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 21: The Intention to Live

| October 21, 2011

There were supposed to be two zombie inspired articles here this year, but thanks to the late breaking news of Lindsay Lohan’s zombification, we all got stuck with one extra. Tonight though, the coast is clear (I know because I’m almost literally sitting on it) and we can proceed with the way things were supposed […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 20: A Recent Zombification

| October 20, 2011

Yesterday we looked at zombies and zombification – the dark art of creating a zombie. Part of that was the bizarre tale of Clairvius Narcisse who turned up alive 18 years after his “death” with reports of his zombification, 2 years enslaved as a zombie, his escape, and 16 years trying to find his way […]

Dark Sentiments 2011 – Day 19: The Zombie Apocalypse

| October 19, 2011

“I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ~ Albert Einstein ~ Apocalyptic events come in many flavours. For example, back in the 50’s and 60’s it was nuclear war that held the spotlight, and thus was born an […]