Halloween thunder.
Under boards, slashed bodies stacked
Code eight. Children stare.
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A spooky season Haiku for you. You can check out all of my works below:
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Matthew Fromm
Full-time nerd, history enthusiast, and proprietor of random knowledge. The best way to find your perfect story is to write it yourself.
Here there be dragons, and knights, and castles, and quests for entities not wishing to be found.
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Comments (13)
Ooooh, that is chilling. I think my subconscious went to Silence of the Lambs with "bodies stacked." But does that really make sense? I don't think so, but that's what happened, lol. Great spooky haiku!
A very packful and intense haiku.
😮 Duuurn! There's a lot going on in those few little words. You sure know how to pack a punch!
Nicely Slashed 🔪🩸😵haha😂📝
Code eight is a nice touch! Great work.
Oooo, I love those slashed bodies under the boards! I enjoyed your Haiku very much!
Chilling!!
That was a lot of creepy in not a lot of syllables!! 🫣🫣🫣🫣
I’ve never been creeped out by a haiku before, but you’ve definitely done it here. Well done.
Very interesting way of playing out a story in a haiku, without sacrificing at all the instantaneous image. Creepy.
Yeah, this speaks of a slasher thriller. Too bad the bodies were buried deep enough to be pushing up daisies. I wonder if they were alerted by the smell of rotting decay.
Perfect for Halloween season! Bravo, Matthew 💕😊
Well, I can't say, "Nice one," but it's damn good!