“My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all, I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content …
Tag: Shirley Jackson
Prompt: Moving to Mars
“I was pretending that I did not speak their language; on the moon we spoke a soft, liquid tongue, and sang in the starlight, looking down on the dead dried world."― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle In a few hundred years humanity will have no choice but to die or relocate. Choosing the …
Prompt: Ritual Boxes
“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.”― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery They have always followed the tradition. Throughout the year they would build and decorate their own boxes, so when the time came, they could write their prayers or desires on a slip of paper, …
Writing Prompt: Rock Spirits
“Although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use stones.” ― Shirley Jackson, The Lottery Once a year, they made the journey up the mountain. Through a secret tunnel they could reach a clearing surrounded by rock walls and crumbled stone. They each would pick out a rock …
My Home, The Moon
She's from the moon but no one believes her...
The Ghost that keeps on Living: A Review of the Haunting of Hill House
By now you’ve likely heard of the new Netflix original, The Haunting of Hill House. Curious, I watched it and found I had too many questions. The book, however, answered none of them. The stories are foggy reminiscences of one another, but hardly the same. Shirley Jackson (1916-1965), is the author of the original novel.
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