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Urban Legends

excerpt from a work in progress

By Rob AngeliPublished 12 months ago 2 min read
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A Creepy Bridge

URBAN LEGENDS conspiracy cryptids such as the Jersey Devil and Bigfoot the Loch-Ness Monster meets MothMan in Murder Hornet Mayhem such as never seen before

in a world of Giants, though, let’s look at the minis

cryptids decrypted from the crypt

at the Bunnyman Bridge, sightings of a hatchet wielding psychopath in bloodstained overalls and a bunny suit

terror to smooching couples wary of the Radio

SIGHTINGS

paranormal morality tales or mortality tales

a cautionary between truth and lies, hearsay and told, a micro-narrative most of them circulated orally but can be propagated by any media social or otherwise mysterious flyers or newspaper facsimile

a type of folk-lore

transmission, bridging the mystery of the possible and the impossible—as a friend of a friend lived vicarious elements of Horror and Humor

(Bridges are Key)

Hear Tell, a setting of the uncanny, warning of DANGER

Hearsay the cybernetic spread of creepers and cryptids

where the Bunnyman travels with his hatchet

der GrossMan! the Slender Man who approaches with his Black Car arms and joints distended

while flyers of the faces of missing children accumulate in a cautionary advert against Strangers in Clownsuits

w/or w/out candy that had razorblades inserted or was laced with rat poison that’ll turn your insides to goo or MDMA tattoo stickers w/a blue star or mini-mouse, to Get Kids Hooked

(a murderer)

don’t forget all the Sightings of strange creatures /the City is now swarming with Paranormal Investigators and Reptile Experts with Army Commandos patrolling the sewers with guns and harpoons, some with explosive devices

although Modern, these were Times nearly as legendary and newsprint worthy in new roman, as when the Jersey Devil was Sighted hundreds of times in 1909

the poor lil demonspawn had been the deformed horror of his grandam in the cottage

Rock-a-bye Baby the Reject

that thing bites, she said

and she cast It out into the New Jersey Pines

(now deforested)

Bloody Mary in the Mirror

will be there for you a flash in the mirror

in the vein of your cybernetic brain-meat

the low flicker of waxen flame

to occupy your time

and not to be occupied by it

tagged for recruit

during the “Lights Out” Rumor which was not even an Urban Legend proper where Street Gangs were said to initiate their new recruits by driving around in a car with its headlights off and when the first unassuming motorist flashes him the accustomed signal which is the fatal flash—the new recruit must murder everybody in the car

(Don’t Look Behind You)

There are Still Alligators in the Sewers

Bloody Mirror in the Mary

will be there for you

all in a flash

do you need the bleeding?

of course you can’t hear the bleeding

blinking and thinking

that the Eye would be

Light’s (wide little) Bitch seeking it

pulsing towards it

expulsed towards it seeking rest of tension

a nest

/where baby birds\

Sweet and Hollarsome:

Existence and Exile marked a ? of TIME

but you have to get past the Names of Things

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About the Creator

Rob Angeli

sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt

There are tears of things, and mortal objects touch the mind.

-Virgil Aeneid I.462

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