Ten Thirty-One Oh Five

Ten Thirty-One Oh Five

written by: G. Lynn Brown

@GLBrown_Writer

Ghosts and goblins
Hide in the night
Witches on broomsticks
Fly through the sky
Vampires stalk
Zombies walk
Bats screech
As they snatch their prey
The moon is full
Hear werewolves bay
In the shadows
Monsters lurk
Creepy scarecrows
With pumpkin heads
All fill us with dread
And fill us with fear
Tonight’s the scariest of the year
But despite the skeletons
Ghouls and ghosts
What haunts me most
About Halloween
Isn’t a scream
or an echoing boo
It’s knowing it’s the day
I lost you

NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR:

This is my tribute to a friend I wish I’d known better. I didn’t know him well, but no one’s death has affected me as much as Joe’s did. I didn’t know he battled depression, and when I learned he surrendered to it, I was haunted and tormented with thoughts of, “If I’d only known.” I’m not sure what difference I could’ve made but, nearly 25 years later, I still wonder, and I stil think of him – sometimes more than others, Autumn and Halloween, the day I found out about him, being those times. If anyone reading fights with depression, please know, there are people who care – sometimes the least likely of people may be the one most willing to listen and be there. To anyone who knows someone battling with mental health, love them. Just love them.

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G. Lynn Brown, originally from New Jersey, now living in Tennessee, is a published writer and poet, whose work can be found in various literary journals, including Fictionette (where her short story, "The Reason Caramels Make Me Cry," won the Star Prize Entry Award, April '23), Monday Microfiction Magazine, Paragraph Planet, Rejection-Letters and others. Her story, "Passing the Torch," made the Australian Writers Centre Furious Fiction Contest longlist (June '23), and in November 2024, she will have her microfiction, "Submerged," published in Vine Leaves Press's "50 Give or Take Anthology." She is a contributing author at Friday Flash Fiction, where her 100-word tale, "Her Best Bud," was recently chosen Editor's Choice. G. Lynn has a passion for creativity that has bubbled within her since childhood and, in adulthood, her writing is more than a hobby, but serves as a form of therapy, allowing her to escape the stresses of day-to-day life. She appreciates all those who read her stories and poems, and hopes they enjoy reading them as much as she does writing them.

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