Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Playground

[froodle]

The wind was blowing the falling rain into grey curtains that fluttered and waved over the wet rubber paving of the playground. The moon was high and bright and a filmy moon-bow wavered in the night sky, pale against the dark clouds. The rain rustled in the decorative borders that bounded the park, pattered on the dark green roof of the wooden pagoda and tinkled on the gleaming metal slope of the slides and the thick chains of the swing set.

Beneath the sound of the water were muted giggles, shouts of laughter muffled by rain and drowned by distance, and the noise of running feet on the soft surface. Small patches of bright colours, wellington boots and waterproof coats in reds and blues and yellows, flittered in and out of the moving shadows.

A little girl whose face had degraded over the years to a smudged oval of white kept pace with a spinning roundabout, the shadowed hollows of her eyes black and wide with excitement. In the griddle-patterned dark beneath the climbing frame, three more shapes huddled together in a misty rainbow, their heads bowed as they conferred over a game played with pebbles and sticks.

Simon Holmes leaned against the rusting and partially-collapsed iron railing that marked the northern-most corner of the abandoned playground.

“Maybe we should come back another time,” he suggested.

Harley peered through the heavy curtain of ivy that had covered the broken-down fence and shrugged.





Holmes Brothers

The End by froodle, in which Simon reads Harley a bedtime story

Drains by froodle, in which clowns are evil, murderous sacks of shit, and Simon is having none of it

Kaleidoscope by froodle, in which Simon has cause to regret buying cheap toys at the World o' Stuff

Sneakers by froodle, in which the latest Sky Monsters are released

Reception by froodle, in which Simon has problems with his mobile phone

Festival by froodle, in which Eerie's local businesses celebrate the summer

Strawberry by froodle, in which there is unauthorised hubbub in Eerie

Anticipation by froodle, in which Simon and Harley look forward to the Equinox

The Hut by froodle, in which Simon takes on the forces of Eerie solo






The Children

Eventide by froodle, in which the sun goes down, and Eerie's lost children gather

Milk by froodle, in which Marshall develops a completely cromulent fear of milk trucks

Whistle by froodle, in which Steve Konkalewski is unhappy about the way things turned out...

Three by froodle, in which Marshall and Devon discuss video games in a cemetary

Marys by froodle, in which Mary C. Carter takes on her new role

A Story About Devon Wilde by froodle. Devon Wilde walked through the Eerie Cemetery, and his feet made no sound on the gravel pathways.

Disguises by froodle, in which Marshall goes to visit Devon Wilde

Lillian by froodle, in which Marilyn's mother has concerns

Comments

[deifire]

Nicely creepy!

(Maybe I should stop reading Eerie fic right before bed.)

[froodle]

:D thank you! and hopefully your sleep wasnt too disrupted by creep!