Eerie Indiana Musical Monday Challenge

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It's Monday, the start of the working week. To counter-act the post-weekend blues, cheer yourself up with Radio Weird: Songs of Eerie. Whether you're checking out some of eviinsanemonkey's amazing filks, or taking up deifire's awesome recommendations for Eerie-centric listening, or creating a musical fanwork of your very own, share your thoughts, and your favourites, in the comments!

( Stabbity Steve: a Murder Ballad by Eviinsanemonkey )

( After Wolf Mountain: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Pay Attention: a Filk by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Krampus: an Eerie Christmas Poem by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Moo! A World o' Stuff advertising jingle by Eviinsanemonkey )

( Bigfoot Stole My Mail: a Musical by Owen Neil )

( Eerie, Indiana fanvids by Roseveare )

( Weird Science (Don't Leave My Arms): an Eerie, Indiana Melanie/Devon/Marshall fanvid by Current Joys )

Eerie, Indiana Food Fest

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Eerie has it’s fair share of great places to eat. There’s the Eerie Baitshop and Sushi Bar, the Eerie Bus Terminal and Supper Club, Everything Corn, Grandma’s Kitchen, the Dragon of the Black Pool Restaurant and, of course, the ice-cream counter at the World o’ Stuff.

If you’re more of a homebody, maybe you prefer twenty-year-old bologna sandwiches or buckwheat pancakes made from a ForeverWare recipe. Perhaps a celebrity couple called off their wedding a few days before your birthday and you bought their cake on sale, or you just like adding the prefix “Swedish” to everything you cook, Marilyn Teller-style.

Maybe you really enjoy toast made in a haunted toaster, or maybe you hate it whether or not it comes with bank-robbing ghosts. You could be a member of a corn-worshipping cult whose banquets consist of Cornade (or Cornade Lite), huge bowls of fresh-made popcorn and, of course, hot buttered corn on the cob.

Is your favourite snack a jumbo-sized bag of chocolate milk balls (“the balls that go moo!”) or just a carton of the Eerie Dairy’s finest scavenged from the site of another fatal milk-truck accident? Do you feast on a giant plate of ribs the night before a human sacrifice or serve up a portion of space noodles and moon sauce while you search for UFOs?

Whatever your preferences, it’s the tenth of the month, and that means it’s time for our Foods of Eerie Fest. Are you enjoying a refreshing Black Cow after a long day investigating haunted structures, or baking cupcakes decorated with ravens and eyeballs? Share your recipes, post your pics, get out those Eerie-themed travel mugs and head off for a picnic in some ill-advised supernatural hotspot. Eat something spookily delicious and tell us all about it!

Eerie Indiana Drabble: Jingle

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"Chick'n it up,
Chick'n it down,
Chick'n it all over chicken-y town
Tasty chick meat
Tender and sweet
So good to eat
Even the feet!"

Marshall grimaced as he stabbed at the volume button on the new, improved, and completely unresponsive remote control from Things Incorporated.

"Even if I didn't know what the Chickeniest Chicken Palace is really putting in those combo buckets, I'd have found that creepy," he said.

Simon watched the capering man-sized figure onscreen cheerfully peck up enormous fried drumsticks while the Chicken Palace's logo rotated in the corner.

"That's not really a costume, is it?"

"Not anymore."

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Check Up

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Doctor Eukenuba sat up, pushing the huge overhanging light fixture out of Marshall's eye line as he did so.

"Well, Mister Teller," he said. "Everything looks to be coming along nicely."

He set aside the tiny mirror and wickedly-gleaming tongue scraper and removed his white latex gloves, depositing them carefully in a medical waste bin that looked like a repurposed ForeverWare dish.

"You should floss after every full moon," he continued, rummaging in his desk drawer until he located a small glass jar full of brownish sticks, which he held out. "And please, try these rather than snacking on squirrels."

Ongoing Verse: WereMarsicorn

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Time for a Change

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The winter bedding had been packed away all through the warmer months. Now the temperature was dropping, and at the back of the linen closet, great and winding beasts of cotton and stuffing were beginning to stir.

It was Simon who noticed it first, Simon whose affinity for the small, the shy, and the too-often-overlooked meant that his eyes did not skate over shivering heap of pillow cases hiding beneath the odd sock box. He glanced out of the window, noted the frost forming on the edge of the pane, and nodded to himself.

Time to fetch the duvet covers...

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Reasonable Precautions

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The door to the Mayor's office slammed open, hit the newly-fitted protective springs attached to the wall behind, and swung backwards with such force that Marshall had to leap clear to avoid a concussion.

"You put those there on purpose," he accused the man who sat behind the vast and gleaming desk, grinning a Cheshire Cat grin that set new standards of smugness even for him.

"I did," Chisel confirmed. "Because, as you might recall, I did ask you to stop dramatically throwing open my office door every time you stop by to accuse me of something nefarious."

Marshall seethed.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: A Weighty Choice

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The teddy bear's fur was cleaned and brushed, all four paws bore freshly-appliqued pink pads and it's previously sagging belly now rose round and firm with brand new stuffing. The ghost was looking better too; no longer a roiling amorphous blob that radiated confusion and fear, it had resolved itself into the shape of a little girl with dark eyes and a expression of solemn intensity.

Right now, that expression was being directed towards a side table on which a dozen small pieces of cloth in various colours and patterns had been arranged.

"Take your time," said Mary C. Carter.


Ongoing Verse: Andrea/Marisea

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Hike

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Sara Sue pulled herself up and onto the ledge and sat there, wheezing. On the other side of Wolf Mountain the sun was rising, but here on the northern face the pre-dawn chill remained and her breath formed icy plumes in the cold air.

She unwrapped one of the World o' Stuff's patent-pending energy bars, inhaling the salty-sweet smells of peanut butter and banana, and devoured it in three bites.

Far below her dangling feet, the town was beginning to stir. She watched the lights come on at the Eerie Dairy, just as lights winked out all over the cemetery.

Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention

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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Delivery Service

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The mouth of the cave did not have a door, so Sara Sue knocked lightly against the stalagmite nearest the entrance by way of announcing herself. From deeper inside there came the metallic whisper of scale moving against scale, and a voice like great boulders grinding together echoed out from the gloom.

"What?"

"Brought you some bits from the horror section at Eerie Video," she said. "Also some M&Ms and a new type of microwave popcorn."

Twin spots of fire appeared in the darkness, thirty feet off the ground and blinking hazily.

"Really?" it said. "What kind?"

"Bubble-gum wasabi, apparently."

Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention

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