Eerie Indiana WIP Wednesday

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What have you been working on this week, Eerie fans? Now's the time to spread the word about any fannish treats you've got cooking: a line of dialogue from an upcoming fic, linework for your latest art piece, the yarn colours for a new toy. Let us know in the comments!

Eerie Indiana 30 Days of the Jackalope

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April is here and the shops are full of cut-price chocolate eggs. Traditionally a time for bunnies, in Eerie they probably have the Easter Jackalope bringing their chocolate eggs. To celebrate, I'll be posting a different Jackalope-themed bit of merch every day in April.

Here's a sweet and strange jackalope by Band of Weirdos

2020: the Year of Nurse Nancy

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It's the year 2020, and to mark the occasion we'll be running weekly prompts based around Just Say No Fun, the episode that introduced everyone's least favourite optometrist.

Your prompt for this week is:

AISLE SIX

Return to Eerie Indiana on Corey Danziger

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UNSURPRISINGLY this week’s episode shares an actor with The ‘Burbs 😅😍 Cory Danziger who plays Devon also plays Dave Peterson in the movie #eerieindiana #theburbs @joe_dante pic.twitter.com/SUK9WwNwcd

— Return to Eerie, Indiana (@eerieindianapod) April 29, 2020

Justin Shenkarow on Eerie Indiana: Scariest Home Movies

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Wrapping up the mummy on Eerie Indiana in our Halloween episode. #eerieindiana #bringbackeerieindiana pic.twitter.com/ICDmFke2OV

— Justin Shenkarow (@justinshenkarow) April 29, 2020

LisaPriscillaH on Eerie Indiana

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Wrapping up the mummy on Eerie Indiana in our Halloween episode. #eerieindiana #bringbackeerieindiana pic.twitter.com/ICDmFke2OV

— Justin Shenkarow (@justinshenkarow) April 29, 2020

I love this episode! Set at Halloween, I always remember the mist getting into the house lol and to shut the door to keep it out. Little things like that made these episode so memorable.

— Priscilla🍰🐾💕 (@LisaPriscillaH) April 29, 2020

missingwords on Eerie Indiana

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'member Eerie Indiana? I've been in a weird mood to rewatch that but fear that it's probably a lot worse than I remember.

— Matt Martin (@missingwords) April 28, 2020

tylertrautman on Eerie Indiana

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'member Eerie Indiana? I've been in a weird mood to rewatch that but fear that it's probably a lot worse than I remember.

— Matt Martin (@missingwords) April 28, 2020

The most underrated family show of the 90's. I owe so much of my personal creativity to that series.

— Tyler Trautman (@tylertrautman) April 28, 2020

DarthDaddy14 on Eerie Indiana

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'member Eerie Indiana? I've been in a weird mood to rewatch that but fear that it's probably a lot worse than I remember.

— Matt Martin (@missingwords) April 28, 2020

Forgot all about that show! To me it was like a kids version of Twin Peaks.

— Cloud Rider Jason (@DarthDaddy14) April 28, 2020

Breznican on Eerie Indiana

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Forgot all about that show! To me it was like a kids version of Twin Peaks.

— Cloud Rider Jason (@DarthDaddy14) April 28, 2020

Rewatched with the kids. It’s silly at times, and the production is somewhat low-fi.

But they thought it was scary when the little boys were preserved in their mom’s tupperware.

Very Goosebumps.

— Anthony Breznican (@Breznican) April 28, 2020

ericsketch on Eerie Indiana

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'member Eerie Indiana? I've been in a weird mood to rewatch that but fear that it's probably a lot worse than I remember.

— Matt Martin (@missingwords) April 28, 2020

I used to use the pen name, "Eerie Kwun" bc of that show lol

— Eric Kwun (@ericsketch) April 28, 2020

KrisHeys on Eerie Indiana

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'member Eerie Indiana? I've been in a weird mood to rewatch that but fear that it's probably a lot worse than I remember.

— Matt Martin (@missingwords) April 28, 2020

Revisited it a few years back, it definitely stands up thanks to consistently great scripts and the presence of Joe Dante, who directs a bunch!

— KRIS HEYS (@KrisHeys) April 29, 2020

herokuun on Eerie Indiana

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Does anyone else remember the Disney show So Weird?
I loved that show so. pic.twitter.com/wXqf28HZ4r

— 🌘 cosmic bean 🌒 isle umbra🍐 (@EmpyreanUmbra) April 28, 2020

I adored the show. It was up there with Are You Afraid of The Dark and Eerie, Indiana

— James (@HeroKuun) April 28, 2020

Ahh yessss! Golden age 😭

— 🌘 cosmic bean 🌒 isle umbra🍐 (@EmpyreanUmbra) April 28, 2020

Mephytos on Eerie Indiana

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@PushinUpRoses Hey I found out your channel a few months ago and really love your commentary. I was wondering, would you ever do some videos about Eerie Indiana? There's not many reviews on youtube of that show!

— Benoit (@Mephytos) April 28, 2020

EJHthreeK on Eerie Indiana

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It's crazy how much I think about that episode of Eerie, Indiana, where the Tupperware lady would put her twin boys into giant Tupperware containers to keep them young.

— Eric James Hiltner (inspired by Pierce Brosnan) (@EJHthreeK) April 28, 2020

Lawthreeper on Eerie Indiana

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It's crazy how much I think about that episode of Eerie, Indiana, where the Tupperware lady would put her twin boys into giant Tupperware containers to keep them young.

— Eric James Hiltner (inspired by Pierce Brosnan) (@EJHthreeK) April 28, 2020

Season 01 Episode 01!

It's the pilot to the show!

— Alan White (@Lawthreeper) April 28, 2020

Was it really?

— Eric James Hiltner (inspired by Pierce Brosnan) (@EJHthreeK) April 28, 2020

Pretty sure! I remember it being the first one in my Netflix queue a few years ago.

— Alan White (@Lawthreeper) April 28, 2020

That show hit at the perfect time for me as a youth

— Eric James Hiltner (inspired by Pierce Brosnan) (@EJHthreeK) April 28, 2020

Momentrabbit on Eerie Indiana

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NEXT TIME ON EERIE INDIANA, MARSHALL TELLER BREAKS HIS ANKLE AND WAKES UP IN HOSPITAL WITH A RAZOR SCOOTER FOR A FOOT. HE'S FORCED BECOMES A PEDICAB TO PAY OFF HIS MEDICALBILL. UBER AWFUL!

— Moment Rabbit (@Momentrabbit) April 28, 2020

Next Thursday, HBO is proud to present a six-episode limited series special "Ray Bradbury Theatre of Blackened Mirrors," starting with "The Wonderful Ice Cream Machine They Replaced Your Girl's Heart With."

— Moment Rabbit (@Momentrabbit) April 28, 2020

bitsOfBobs on Eerie Indiana

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Finally started watching Gravity Falls thanks to Disney+, so far I’m thinking Twin Peaks for kids!

— Ross (@rossxarkley) April 28, 2020

Did you ever watch eerie indiana? Right up your street. Gravity falls is amazing.

— Rob Johnson (@bitsOfBobs) April 28, 2020

Ooooo, not heard of that! Did just google and saw that Joe Dante directed some eps, will check it out! Knew you’d like Gravity Falls.

— Ross (@rossxarkley) April 28, 2020

You'll be too young, I can hook you up so you can out hipster the hipsters.

— Rob Johnson (@bitsOfBobs) April 28, 2020

rockchicksj on Eerie Indiana

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I went with Eerie Indiana but a close second was Are you afraid of the dark? It always felt a tad more grownup and scarier than Goosebumps. And Round the Twist was great! I’ve been up the lighthouse that was in the show 😂

— SJ (@rockchick_sj) April 29, 2020

sdaveak47 on Eerie Indiana

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Eerie Indiana was the best but Round the Twist had the best theme tune (and reminds me of having fish & chips)

— dave (@sdaveak47) April 29, 2020

SongWarmonger on Eerie Indiana

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I went with Eerie Indiana but a close second was Are you afraid of the dark? It always felt a tad more grownup and scarier than Goosebumps. And Round the Twist was great! I’ve been up the lighthouse that was in the show 😂

— SJ (@rockchick_sj) April 29, 2020

eerie deffo!

— MargeGunderson (@SongWarmonger) April 29, 2020

Just rewatched “Eerie Indiana” on Prime. Still a great show.

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Darth_Garlic_Bread: Finding out this was on prime just made my day! Thank you!

_EVILLIVE_ It's a trip to see actors slightly older than me now as kids....there was a few cameos from people that I recognized like no shit that's freddy Rodriguez and nikki cox....I know there's more but those two I remember off the top of my head.

Captain_Roderick There was a young Toby Maguire, the voice of Panic (Disney Hercules), & I’m pretty sure the actual actor of Max Headroom is there as well as lots of people I know I recognized from countless small roles over the years. But, yea, lots of people. It was a trip.

ArugulaZ: There was an episode where a guy named "The Donald" hypnotized people with catchy TV commercials, made them buy useless crap on credit, then took their souls as collateral. I guess people should have been paying attention to Eerie Indiana, huh?

Captain_Roderick: Honestly, that was probably a direct reference to Trump. He’s been around forever being a shitty businessman. Even Sesame Street mocked him a few times over the years .

The show had quite a bit of politics in actually.

a-maizing-blue-girl: I’m thinking you are correct and we should have payed more attention. Episode 2 “The Retainer” had an Enquirer magazine with the headline “Our Next President?” And Trump’s picture. They inadvertently predicted Trump’s campaigning and win.

jeffmartin48early 80s: I had a big crush on Julie Condra because of this show and her appearances on The Wonder Years.

There was also a short lived spinoff, Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie,_Indiana:_The_Other_Dimension

Captain_Roderick: I never saw the other dimension. It’s also on Prime & I plan on watching it too.

You say short lived... eerie Indiana was only 19 (one season) eps itself.

jeffmartin48
early 80s
Wrong phrase. All I could think of at the time. Seems like! It lasted a little longer.

The Other Dimension only lasted 15.

I remember that that they retooled the show and added Jason Marsden as Dash X.

HollowGoob: The Other Dimension is really really bad.

Captain_Roderick: That sucks. At least now I have low expectations going in.

Funky_Sack: I think everyone had a crush on her. She was nice to look at.

JoeMafia7: I was thinking about this show on the way to work just yesterday. Thank you for the knowledge its available on prime. 🤗

jax9999: God I loved that show

PotatoFancier: Holy crap! I was thinking about this show recently too

leadweightdeadweight: This was a great show. Does anyone recall a similar show that had to do with a family that ran a lighthouse?

Captain_Roderick: I believe you are looking for “Round The Twist”.

NocturnalPatrolAlpha90: Please, TV producers, I'm begging you! Bring back these kinds of shows!

Neo Trash Video on Eerie Indiana

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See their post here.

Eerie Indiana R2 DVD on MightApe.NZ

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See it here.

Aivis on Eerie Indiana

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I remember when i was a child i used to watch a lot of tv shows from USA. I was born in Lithuania. We had most of the usa channels there. One of the most memorable tv show for me was EERIE INDIANA. I remember i watched this in 2001 for the first time. It was something special. It’s about two kids who lives in EERIE indiana. Lots of wierd things happens there. This tv show is more for mature audience. It’s absolutely amazing and atmoshpere is awesome. You can grab dvds from ebay and it’s highly recommended.

Eerie Indiana Drabble: Recovery

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The cold snap had left the mudsnakes drowsy and listless. This was the only reason that the construction crew who'd inadvertently unearthed their burrow had made it out relatively unscathed.

Simon eyed the gigantic Mudsnake Queen which coiled regally around a half-dozen severed limbs, and reminded himself that relative was, well, a relative term.

A paramedic wearing the smiling yellow sun insignia for Happy Brothers Ambulance and Mortuary Services joined him behind the barricade.

"We can probably reattach about half of those," he said. "Less if she keeps biting chunks out of them, though."

Simon picked up his butterfly net.


Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Taste Test

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The lasagne had been a success on two fronts. Firstly, it had been delicious. Secondly, it had not sprung to life and embarked upon a reign of terror, molten cheese, and tomato paste.

Tod opened the flour-smudged ring binder full of recipes, turned to the neatly-labelled "pasta" section, and added a tick to the "win" column.

The moray eels in a skin suit collected the béchamel-smeared saucer from the corner of their shared workbench and gave him a double thumbs up. One of the eels' faces was poking out of the empty eye socket.

It winked at Tod, grinning widely.

Ongoing Verse: Janet

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Quitting Time

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The rain had cleared just as the clock struck five, which was always a sure sign that Wally had plans for the evening.

Marshall Teller kicked off the stiff, shiny work shoes that had spent the last eight hours pinching him mercilessly, and slid into the waiting embrace of his trusty Sky Monsters, less than a month old and already starting to look ratty.

There was a knock on the already-open office door, and Marshall turned to see his Dad poking his head through the opening.

"Ready to head home?" Edgar asked.

"Yeah," said Marshall, grabbing his coat and standing.

Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History

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Ongoing Verse: Weather

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Revisions

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Sara Sue looked down at the list of requested alterations her client had sent back, and scowled. Apparently the scowl was a pretty bad one, because Realdog whimpered and even Dash flinched.

"You okay?" said Harley.

Sara Sue took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

"It's that illustration job for the textbook on middle school physics. The guy wants drawings that are 'cool' and 'hip' and 'relatable'," she explained, marking scare quotes with her fingers. "Apparently that means everything from atoms to the Higgs-Bosen should be riding a skateboard."

"Change it and sign it," suggested Dash.

She grinned.


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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Dress Down

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Chick Two had attracted a cult.

Simon knew which of the five cockatrice was guilty because of the statues which had started springing up around town. Two cockerel heads, wattled and proudly combed. A lizard-like frill around the thick neck, near the shoulders before it split. A long tail that curled up at the end in a jaunty wave.

A couple of cultists were hanging around on the sidewalk outside his parent's house, trying to look inconspicuous in button-down shirts and beige khakis.

It probably might have worked better if they'd not put those on over their hooded robes, though.


Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Accounting

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The man from the Dragon of the Black Pool Cantonese Restaurant and the man representing Eerie's most notorious biker gang took a seat at the very back of the closed and darkened restaurant, far from the street-level windows and the prying eyes of the thing in the ornamental fish tank.

"So," said Gnomey, pulling off his dark sunglasses and replacing them with a pair of round wire-rimmed spectacles that did nothing to diminish the rumour that he was secretly Santa in disguise. "Let's take a look at these accounts, shall we? Can't recoup lost income until we know what's missing."

Ongoing Verse: Christmas

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Secretions

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The little ornamental shrub in her backyard was bleeding.

Marilyn Teller went back into the shed and retrieved a second, thicker pair of work gloves, then took a second look.

It was definitely blood, thick and red and smelling of pennies. It oozed out from under the silver-pale bark, and there was no wound that she could see.

"Edgar!" she called, and a moment later her husband's face appeared in the open kitchen window.

His smile faded as she held up gore-streaked fingers, pointing at the bush with it's pretty pale green leaves with her free hand.

"Get the chainsaw."

Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Paradigm Shift

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The flagstones outside City Hall were moving.

Once they'd formed an enormous mosaic depicting a version of the Mayor's face that was flattering well past the point of inaccuracy, although since you had to be about five stories up to see it and only Chisel had an office that high, nobody had yet commented.

Except the ravens, of course, but then they commented on everything.

Now the carefully-fitted pieces jutted against each other, grinding and tearing and cracking and oozing a pinkish watery substance that couldn't possibly be blood, because stones, after all, do not bleed.

The ravens chattered excitedly.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: New Addition

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"I call him Big Moo," said Farmer Chambers, patting the enormous cloud-buffalo on the muzzle.

Simon walked a slow circle around the massive animal, taking in the thick mane comprised of thousands of tightly-clustered balloons.

"He's very pretty," he said, holding out one hand for Big Moo to sniff.

"The only cloud-bison in the entire state of Indiana," the farmer declared proudly, as Big Moo licked Simon's hand with enough enthusiasm to earn a glare from Sparky. "Look at that coat. You could make balloon arches for a dozen weddings and still have some left over."

Big Moo moo'd, loudly.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Song of the Bees

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From a distance, the music was a discordant buzzing hum that set the listener's teeth on edge. Shouts and screams occasionally rose above the droning noise of the song, and sometimes during the lull there was the sound of someone weeping.

That was what it sounded like at a distance.

Up close, the music was beautiful, a sublime melody of a million beating insect wings as the black and yellow servants of ChimpBee poked and prodded their human audience to join the dance.

The smokers lay in a tangled heap, damaged beyond repair. Of the beekeepers, there was no sign.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Tipping Culture

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The mermaids tipped in sea glass and sunken treasure and a strange, pale pink coral that never died no matter how long it was out of the water. Janet had been using it to build a sort of bower in her parent's back yard, but stopped adding to it after some neighbourhood pets went missing.

Now she gave it to Simon's little brother, who used it as currency to bribe information from those lake creatures who were not fully loyal to the King Crab. She sometimes felt guilty about stoking that particular conflict, but, well...

They should stick to dollars.

Ongoing Verse: Janet

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Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: New Additions

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Sheila had been right about the chupacabra. Not that Marshall was surprised - aside from a single persistent blind spot regarding which things could or could not be phased through one another, Simon's assistant was right about most things.

"I can explain," said Simon, standing in front of two red-eyed, hump-spine'd dog-lizard monsters like a Jackalope Queen defending a burrow of newly-hatched kittens.

"No he can't," said Dash, not looking up from the water-stained pages of a closely written notebook he'd liberated from one of the Loyal Order of Corn's sub-sub-basement.

Marshall took the bottled goat's blood out of his bag.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Music Therapy

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Marshall was startled to here singing coming from the Holmes's back yard. Screaming, yes. Yelling, sure. The occasional ominous Latin chanting that suggested Harley had been left unsupervised for just a little too long, absolutely.

The voice was deep, mellow, and appeared to be singing about Ratkings. Marshall hadn't known the Ratking was capable of human speech, let alone carrying a tune.

He pressed close to the grimy wall of the rundown house and eased himself around the corner, moving as quietly as possible. He saw Simon, Harley, the Ratking... and the weird old fat guy from his paper route

Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers

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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Healing Songs

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Simon spotted him lurking in the shadows and waved him over, one hand gesturing wildly while the other pressed tight against his lips in a clear exhortation against speech.

Marshall sat down in the wet grass next to his best friend, while one King crooned softly to another, the tune of Blue Suede Shoes with all the lyrics changed.

"We found out that he heals faster if you sing to him," whispered Simon. "But the song has to be about him for the magic to work."

Marshall glanced at the ugly slash over the biggest rat's throat, already scar-tissue pink.

Ongoing Verse: Holmes Brothers

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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Taxonomy

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One of the old ladies from Grandma's Kitchen had made little hats and scarves for the ravens. The ravens didn't seem to mind, bobbing this way and that and trailing bright streaks of wool in their wake.

Sergeant Knight approached the park bench were she sat, surrounded by bundles of yarn and long sharp needles engraved with strange markings.

"Hello, Officer," said the Grandma, grinning a gummy grin. "Have you come to arrest me?"

The Sergeant stared impassively down at her.

"Is this a confession?" he asked.

The Grandma gestured.

"Accessory to murder!" she said.

"That's crows," he told her.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Trade In

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The pencil was bright aquamarine and felt rubbery under her fingers. There was no letter or number to indicate texture or shade; only a bright pink infinity symbol that looped around the very top.

"Use as directed," the old woman hissed, grabbing Sara Sue's arm in a grip that sucked like a vacuum. The old lady's eyes were wild and staring and her pink pillbox hat sat crookedly atop thin white hair. "Last you a lifetime! Maybe longer!"

The worn-down stub of the Eerie No.2 pencil prickled against her skin, and Sara Sue recognised it for the warning it was.

Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention

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