Halloween 2015 Challenge Rules & Discussion

[todski28]

Oh an im pretty sure i see at least one by magnetron

 

[Angeline]

I see angelines i see gms i think I see harrys and a butters the rest no idea

Hmmph. You seem sure of yourself. I recognize GM's poem. I think. I have to try to find butters'. I love her writing and I am irked that I can't spot it more easily.


ETA: I see a terzanelle, an Italian sonnet and maybe butters' poem.

 

[todski28]

Hmmph. You seem sure of yourself. I recognize GM's poem. I think. I have to try to find butters'. I love her writing and I am irked that I can't spot it more easily.


ETA: I see a terzanelle, an Italian sonnet and maybe butters' poem.

I do ok at the guessing side of things most of the time not so goos with identifiny anything that ends in elle, and a sonnet? But well I guess you get what you get

 

[butters]

wow! lotta entries already

is #1 about ted bundy? i know the name but i'm unfamiliar with his story other than mass murderer

#3, pumpkins - if it wasn't as closely controlled, and due to subject matter, i'd have guessed harry - but i'm thinking angeline for this one

and pyewacket... that name, trying to recall which of you ladies has/d a cat called that it's probably my favourite here so far, and is definitely charming if not so very scary

*back to reading*

 

[butters]

given its content - sacrifice, hot, roasted meat, spider-webbed trees, 'pissy', then i'm fingering harry for this one if i'm wrong he's sure to let me know

 

[butters]

i'm blaming magnetron for #6 - who else would slip 'exsanguinating' in there? that, the length of the write, and the wry 'sat there threequarters nekkid and no-one even noticed' seem to point his way. either that or there's a lady here who's drawing from a rueful memory somewhere

 

[butters]

absolutely loving these opening lines from #4


Vampires

In darkened galleries
of lust we wait
framed in dust and guilty absence


wish i'd have written that! sooo atmospheric who wrote it? not a clue

 

[butters]

i think tods might be the author of #5, Jack

lots of alliteration i associate with his writing, plus the string of slash/bash/decapitation etc....

 

[butters]

#10's so irrepressibly daft it's delightful, insanity running riot in unabashed glee

#12 - something in its content and last line says gm to me

#9 - beyond the ding-dong-bell nursery rhyme

#11 - is growing on me; reading and rereading, there's more creepiness to this than first meets the eye - the ear helps deliver extra spookiness

 

[HarryHill]

yeah #1 is about ted bundy, looks like a carry over from the historical thread, I'm guessing AH

12 is gm, definitely, I hear the voice that I always associate with his poetry when I read it, spooky right?

10 must be Mag

9, I'm guessing butters

now whoever wrote terranelles n sonnets for a Halloween challenge I just want to say that is just so wrong

 

[Magnetron]

given its content - sacrifice, hot, roasted meat, spider-webbed trees, 'pissy', then i'm fingering harry for this one if i'm wrong he's sure to let me know

Nobody is fingering anybody in here.

Keep your fingers to yourselves.

 

[Magnetron]

is #1 about ted bundy? i know the name but i'm unfamiliar with his story other than mass murderer

Or it is about serial killing teddy bear, Ted "DesEsseintes" Paddington.

 

[HarryHill]

Or it is about serial killing teddy bear, Ted "DesEsseintes" Paddington.

..
you are having too much fun with this

 

[butters]

#17, cereal killer, lololol

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

butters beat me to it.......17's hilarious

I keep making choices as to IDs then chickening out.

 

[Angeline]

butters beat me to it.......17's hilarious

I keep making choices as to IDs then chickening out.

It's really clever and yes hilarious, right from the title.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

It's really clever and yes hilarious, right from the title.

pyewacket just might be you in disguise. *narrows eyes*

 

[Angeline]

pyewacket just might be you in disguise. *narrows eyes*

Everyone knows I love dogs!

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Everyone knows I love dogs!

Oh yes, me too. but that final line just isn't in character........

Dammit! Now I think #9 is yours. *gnashing teeth*

 

[greenmountaineer]

pyewacket just might be you (Angeline) in disguise. *narrows eyes*

Sure thing. I loved the word play in the last line, but hoo am I to judge?

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Sure thing. I loved the word play in the last line, but hoo am I to judge?

and you, sir. might also own a h'een cat (#9)........or not.

 

[todski28]

wow! lotta entries already

is #1 about ted bundy? i know the name but i'm unfamiliar with his story other than mass murderer

#3, pumpkins - if it wasn't as closely controlled, and due to subject matter, i'd have guessed harry - but i'm thinking angeline for this one

and pyewacket... that name, trying to recall which of you ladies has/d a cat called that it's probably my favourite here so far, and is definitely charming if not so very scary

*back to reading*

Just dont google bundy that guy is damaged goods WTF

 

[AlwaysHungry]

#12 - something in its content and last line says gm to me

Seconded. The characteristic tableau.

 

[greenmountaineer]

and you, sir. might also own a h'een cat (#9)........or not.

Nope, not me; I wish it was mine. It's quite well written. It's certainly not a trick or treat candy bar poem. After my career of dealing with criminals, my first thought was ritualistic execution, a not uncommon childhood behavior among psychopaths, particularly violent sexual predators, such as the Ted in #1. The more I thought about it, however, I think Johnny is just feeling guilty about not having been able to save the cat. It'll be interesting to read the poet's take on it when the challenge is done.

 

[HarryHill]

Everyone knows I love dogs!

that lets annie out too; she's dog people, wonder where she's off to?