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Pink Think: "Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is." - Yvonne Craig
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In the spirit of Halloween, and in reply to the awards that Jessica of Cougar Tales, LeSan of Blue Gate Gardens and Georgie of Author's Desk have bestowed upon me (thank you!) here is a list of ten things that scare me:
1. Ghosts and ghost stories. As a child, my relatives always treated us to scary stories at family gatherings.
2. Heights. I don't like climbing ladders or going on roofs.
3. Covers over my head. I get claustrophobic.
4. That when I come home from vacation, I would find my house burned down. When we round that corner and I see my house intact, I breathe a sigh of relief.
5. Being stranded on an island without dental floss
6. Head hunting tribes
7. Buildings without a thirteenth floor. My mind keeps wanting to search for that missing floor.
8. My husband appearing behind me as though from nowhere. He just has to walk up to me and I jump! I am always accusing the poor thing of sneaking up on me.
9. Nightmares where I do something dastardly. And I wake up guilty. (What a relief to realize it was just a dream, but still I wonder...am I capable of that?)
10. Twilight Zone episodes from when I was a child and which now inspire my horror fiction
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What scares YOU?
Saturday, October 31, 2009
Ten Scary Things
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7 comments:
I have that whole house burning down thing, too. What's that about? :)
My husband's always scaring me too! And not on purpose either--I am just usually so deep in throught and he appears (out of nowhere! like magic!) and I jump AND usually scream/squeal in a very unattractive manner.
Stopping by from SITS...very cool post, got me thinking - but my list of things needs to be longer. LOL. I'm a scaredy cat!
Definitely ghost stories....Like when friends tell stories of their encounters with a relative who has passed away. It totally freaks me out because I soooooooooo believe it's true!
That must kind of suck worrying about the house all the time. If you're like me you probably don't even realize you're doing it until you start breathing again once you see it intact.
It was fun learning these little spooky tidbits about you.
What scares me? Life. Life scares the you know what out of me. Sort of like that roller coaster ride you can't quite shake the suspicion that that darn thing just isn't going to make one of those hair pin turns or loop de loops. Then there's that certainty that you probably shouldn't have eaten the chili dog with extra fries and onions before getting on this rickety ride in the first place.
Lynn: I don't know, Lynn. A subliminal message from a fire retardant company? :-)
Ali: I am the same way!! My family knows I am a screamer. And yet I claim to be very brave. Ha!
Sweet Mama Jones: Thanks for stopping here! We can be scared together.
Jessica: I know what you mean. I am very ghost-llible that way :-)
LeSan: I don't usually get into worry mode until the last 10 minutes of the ride home. Thankfully.
You don't seem like the type of person that gets rattled with the twists and turns of life. I would actually describe you as serene (based on your posts). But I hear you. Life is one Grand Adventure.
Number 6. Number 6 totally scares me! ;o)
Stopping by from the SITS Halloween Parade :o)
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