Writing on a Whim

  Guilt is a relatively new emotion for Aeron. Of course he has always had the capacity to feel guilt but what purpose would it have served in his daily life? Torturing human souls would be impossible if guilt came with every plea for mercy. So it is an emotion that he is unfamiliar and uncomfortable, to be quite frank. Which made it all the more exasperating when he now has to address his guilt and the actions that led to him feeling this way. Truly maddening and something Aeron would find a waste of time.  But if he dismisses the guilt he feels, then Harper will eventually move on from him, and the demon knows that he would have to confront another emotion he is unversed in: regret.  However, one glance at Harper’s sibling proved that Aeron was not alone in his guilt. Good. The audacity the younger man must have to enter a demon’s domain and try to assert his dominance. Absolutely ridiculous. The creature is fortunate that he fears Harper’s disappointment more than he f...

Thanksgiving can go f- itself.  Who ever thought bringing together a bunch of people who never see each other and don’t even really like each other would be a good idea? And it's not like they have anywhere to go when they are pissed off because everywhere is closed. So all of these strangers parading around as family are trapped in a house together until it is socially acceptable to leave, only to repeat the same routine a month later for the next “family” holiday.  Yeah, never volunteering to host Thanksgiving again. Heck, never going to a Thanksgiving dinner again. Honestly, when Harper opened the front door to the sight of her brother sans their parents, she should have just closed it, locked it back up, and told Aeron that they were going to spend the day cuddled on the couch swapping between Hallmark Christmas movies and bloody Halloween flicks.  But no. Part of her still wanted to try and play “perfect family holiday” with her brother and her boyfriend.A home-cooke...

 “Charlie Brown had the right idea: popcorn, pretzels, and jellybeans. That’s about to be our Thanksgiving menu if these pies won’t set.” Why did Harper volunteer to cook Thanksgiving dinner? She hates cooking. No, loathes. Loathes is a better word to describe her deep hatred for cooking. And since her boyfriend survives only on the ‘souls of the wicked’, Harper can usually get away with cooking once or twice a week. But of course having a live-in boyfriend and two pets, well one pet and one reanimated corpse, made Harper long for the Hallmark holiday. So when her brother announced he’d be back stateside during the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas, she jumped at the chance to make that dream holiday a reality and invited him and their parents to her house for the holiday.  How much did she drink to make her think this would be a good idea? “Mmmerow, mmmerow.” “Hi baby.” Harper turned around and spotted Sherlock crouched in the middle of the kitchen. The orange tabby’s t...

  The full moon peeked over the top of the buildings as darkness cloaked the streets. Only the flickers of flames and flashlight lit the path. The roar of chainsaws drowned out the sound of screams as people fled away from their attackers. Men laughed as their friends scurried away from the fiends doused in blood and other unrecognizable fluids while women shrieked then laughed as their conversations were interrupted by a cloaked figure lunging at them from the shadows.  It was utterly boring. "If I may, what demon are you intending to mimic," Aeron questioned the actor who was snarling and lunging at him in a failed attempt to frighten him. "Based on the coloring, placement, and shape of your horns, I would say you are a nightmare demon even though you are quite small compared to their 8 foot frame. And while you have the temperament of a grief demon, you smell like a crypt demon.” Although his face was securely hidden behind his mask, the actor’s frustration showed thr...