TALES TO PUSH BACK THE DARKNESS_IWSG post

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Some of you are here because my friend, C. Lee McKenzie, pointed the wayin her IWSG post. 
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Good friends make all the difference  in life, don't they?
When the nights grow long, and the year is coming to a close, 

it's only natural that people feel an urge to gather together.

At the edge of the year, it also makes sense to think of people and places that are no longer with us.

Samhain is a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season 

and the beginning of winter or the "darker half" of the year.






We now call Samhain Halloween, 
but the old darkness, the old fears are still lurking in the shadows just past the light of our illusory faith in science. 


Why do we like scary stories?
When you read one that becomes frost down your spine, 

you are hit with the feeling to read another one.  

You have to love dopamine! 

It's not the believing them that is the crux, but the disbelieving them 

though they breathe winter through your veins.

You step out of the prose haunted house pumped by adrenaline 

but comforted by the knowledge that such things can't happen ... that you are safe.

'Or are you?' 

whispers the eternal child who awakens whenever the shadows draw close.


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This was supposed to
go up at midnight.