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SirenCymbaline

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  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    "I'm Bettie. I'm a demon, we don't have souls where I come from. We're all lawyers and corporates, see. Angels don't have 'em either, for the same reason. I've never ...

    Oct 24, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Now Bettie liked Annie. She was voracious, uncompromising, had an exotic taste in souls. All the best qualities a girl could have. But she was beginning to stay the centre ...

    Oct 24, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    "Oh, I know. That's why I can't drink brain fluid anymore. But they got my crocodile stomach acid, so I'm happy. Bettie, by the way." she said. She winked, and ...

    Oct 19, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    "Sailing! Fascinating. Will you join expeditions, or get your own- ooh! You could get a licence-" Bettie's eyes burned with little star shaped lights. She loved licenses. She had too ...

    Oct 18, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Bettie paused, taken aback. Rowenna took her questions so seriously. Had she really made the conversation so tense? She giggled. "Oh honey, it's not an interrogation. I'm just playing. You ...

    Oct 17, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Bettie whistled. Then she leaned back, and closed her eyes. "Ah, of course, of course. I must have insulted him by even asking. My apologies, Rowenna. But by now, you ...

    Oct 15, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Bettie's eyelids lifted just a millimeter higher. "Ooh. An original Dracula? My stars. Is the old man still kickin'? -If you'll forgive my nosiness."

    Oct 15, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    "I'm Bettie. Capatalist scum, pop idol export from Hell. It's sweet to meetcha." she said, voice like honey. She already had her drink, but she leaned over the bartop gratuitously ...

    Oct 14, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Bettie sipped at her diet crocodile stomach acid, content. "They have blood. No need to be shy." She said to the poor vampire woman. "I can smell it. Juuust under ...

    Oct 13, 2019
  • Archive Re: Truth or Dare

    Boris caved in. He hugged Damascus back. “I’m- I’m happy too.” he said. He grabbed on tighter. He hid his face behind Damascus’ head. “Don’t leave again.” Boris insisted. “Whatever ...

    Oct 10, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Maybe now that Marciella had heard about Baba, now she'd be willing to talk about herself? Baba hoped so. "What are they like? Where do they live?" Baba asked, beginning ...

    Oct 10, 2019
  • Completed Hall of Fame Re: The Lost City

    Boris was already preoccupied, having appointed himself as Bo's guide in a laughable attempt at an act of penance. No, because it was simply the decent thing to do. And ...

    Oct 9, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    “Oh,” said Bettie, after Tobias had fled, “He’s shy, for a host.” Her voice was sympathetic, but the amused curl of her lip threw it off. “It’s you.” said Guy, ...

    Oct 9, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Baba perked right up. They loved talking about their family. "Yeah, I got one! I started out as an old skeleton, what Mr MacGregor the wolfman found on the barn ...

    Oct 9, 2019
  • Archive Re: Monster Mash!

    Baba sat cross legged, and leaned in. Baba was learning a lot.

    Oct 8, 2019


Poetry is my cheap means of transportation. By the end of the poem the reader should be in a different place from where he started. I would like him to be slightly disoriented at the end, like I drove him outside of town at night and dropped him off in a cornfield.
— Billy Collins