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Eerie, Indiana Rewatch 2021: Tornado Days
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A patch of dead-brown grass at his foot burst into flame, causing him to start backwards with a cry of alarm and a faint smell of singled suede from his comfrotable brown house shoes.
Above him, the flock chittered happily, wings blocking out a sun that was already too bright, too hot...
Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana & St Swithin's Day
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"I should never have come here," it said.
Weatherman Wally, who was at heart a kind and compassionate man, felt bad for the frog but could not bring himself to disagree.
"It's all gone wrong," said the frog. "I was going to come here, mess with you all a little, ruin a couple of festivals, and then leave."
"The weather doesn't work like that here," Wally explained, as gently as he could. "There are literal gods here."
The frog sighed.
Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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Eerie, Indiana/Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Forecast
May. 8th, 2021 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Alone at WERD-TV, Weatherman Wally sat beside the topographical map of Eerie, shoulders slumped, fingers crisscrossed with electrical burns. This would be a bad one.
Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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Weatherman Wally stood on his newly-repaired and, thanks to a mutually beneficial agreement with the man from the Eerie Dairy, uniformly-aged wooden veranda, a mug of coffee clasped in gloved hands as he surveyed the scene in front of him.
The rusted iron tracks where the Ghost Train ran at Midsummer were just starting to form indents in the soft black earth, and he could hear the spectral rumble of sleepers yet unrealised.
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Rose Garden
May. 5th, 2021 08:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Weatherman Wally sat on one of the white-painted benches that lined the path through the rose garden, eating a sandwich while being careful not to make any sudden movements. All around him, signs warned of the risks posed by undertaking any high-speed activity while in the presence of man-eating plants.
A shame the runners visited before dawn.
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"Are you sure you didn't summon something?" he asked, for at least the third time since she'd arrived.
Syndi Teller smoothed down the puffy blue-grey skirts of her Miss Tornado Day outfit, hastily retrieved from the back of her closet when the summons came.
"No," she said, taking a deep breath that raised tiny zephyrs even in the sealed room. "I don't even like jazz. Whatever's haunting the warning sirens, it isn't me."
Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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National Weatherman Day
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Eerie, Indiana Rewatch 2020: Tornado Days
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Hothouse
Jul. 4th, 2020 12:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"I like how the blackberries look against the cream," said Tod.
"Very fresh," Ernest observed. He exchanged a glance with his twin. "Do I detect the helping hand of Weatherman Wally and some out-of-season climate control at work?"
"He also likes blackberries," Tod allowed. "And autumn."
Bert and Ernie examined the enormous trifle for a few more moments before nodding.
"Who doesn't?" they asked.
Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Rainfall
Jun. 28th, 2020 05:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Melanie glanced up, feeling the blessedly cool water on her face and bare arms.
"Looks like the boss lady managed to convince Wally," she said.
Sara Sue nodded, using her free hand to push her long hair back even as the hand holding the pencil never stopped moving. Her clothes were quickly becoming soaked, but the sketchpad open on rapidly-dampening knees remained bone-dry.
Melanie reached into her utility belt, checking for the extra pair of socks.
Ongoing Verse: Janet
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Ongoing Verse: Milkman
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Eerie Indiana Double Drabble: The Storm
Jun. 27th, 2020 11:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Thunder rumbled, shaking the single-pane glass in the soft and rotting wood of window frames up and down that long-abandoned street.
Dash X stood in the middle of the weed-cracked road, borrowed clothes plastered to him by the driving rain. This was his least-favourite outfit, the colours too bright and the whole thing several sizes too big, but it was still clothing he could ill-afford to lose.
His feet were bare, and in the light of the storm the scars on them were red, livid and shining. Beneath him, a thick rubber mat of the kind used in offices to lessen the chance of static discharge glistened like living oil.
Lightning cracked again, closer now. At the edge of town, something was burning. The new Weatherman didn't yet have Wally's level of control, and property damage happened more often these days.
The door to one of the houses banged open, caught by the rushing wind. In hand-me-down oil-slickers and heavy-soled rubber boots, Sara Sue and Harley said nothing as they joined him.
Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Good Hand Hygiene
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She glared at the heavy-duty plastic mixing bowl in front of her, half-full of water and for the rest, brimming over with a cool damp mist that should have banished her troubling case of tornado-mittens.
"This isn't working," she informed the empty meeting room where Wally had left her. To her left, the pages of a cheap pad of A1 paper clipped to a whiteboard fluttered in a breeze that sprung up out of nowhere.
She sighed.
Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Early Dark
Jun. 19th, 2020 04:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Strange trees loomed dark and uncanny against a grey and louring sky, and as the wind whistled through bare branches and stirred drifts of sun-bleached garbage from the overflowing gutters that ran alongside the pavement, Marshall Teller zipped his green overcoat up as far as it would go and jammed chilled fingers even deeper into his pockets.
The last sunrise had been almost a month ago, replaced by perpetual gloom that waxed and waned on a twenty-four hour cycle. Wally was missing.
Ongoing Verse: Pay Attention
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Stifled
Jun. 14th, 2020 12:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
The desk fan that Dash had stolen years ago on his first ill-fated forays into office temping now held pride of place, propped on a cushioned footstool in the middle of the room. Marshall and the Manticore both lay prone before it's rapidly-oscillating blades, their previous enmity set aside in the face of a mutual enemy - the summer heat.
"Do you think Wally takes bribes?" Marshall asked.
The Manticore purred.
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Summer Rain
Jun. 3rd, 2020 05:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Marshall pushed open the old-fashioned sash windows, feeling the soft give of rotting wood under a lumpy coating of thick white gloss. The air was full of the smell of wet pavement and the susurration of falling water and he leaned out, breathing deep as heavy droplets quickly soaked his skin and hair.
"Looks like Wally managed to catch that frog after all," said Simon, who was performing much the same ritual at the other window. "Or get him a date, anyway."
Ongoing Verse: Microwave
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Home Made
May. 3rd, 2020 03:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
"It smells nice," Simon offered, handing it off to Marshall. "What do you think, Mars?"
Marshall thought the smell was kinda strong, but since it was probably designed at least in part to cover up the scent of ozone and burned hair, he decided not to mention it.
"What's in it?" he asked instead. "Weather god stuff?"
Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie Indiana Drabble: Quitting Time
Apr. 29th, 2020 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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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Wally knew this, because for the last few days it had been taunting him. Wet webbed footprints appeared across his weather map, and now Sergeant Knight and a very green-faced Officer Derek were out on Lake Eerie looking for the Shadow Over Innsmouth. Milk left on his doorstep would be curdled by a single scorching ray of sunlight hours before dawn. Errant, unseasonable breezes scattered his papers and laundry alike.
And now, all the chocolate in town was melting, and the Mayor would want to know why.
Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Eerie, Indiana/Gortimer Gibbon's Life on Normal Street
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Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be
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National Weatherman Day
Feb. 5th, 2020 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
National Weatherman Day
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Eerie Indiana Fanfiction: Work Experience
Jan. 19th, 2020 11:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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Ongoing Verse: Teller Family History
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Ongoing Verse: WereMarsicorn
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Ongoing Verse: Weather
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Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc
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Eerie, Indiana Rewatch 2019: Tornado Days
Dec. 8th, 2019 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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So, when I was 11, I spent a weekend clearing brush with an ax murderer. #Hoosiers
— I Heart Bog Witches (@EvilCEOE) February 9, 2019
He had brain damage. Big scar. After his dad died his mom had remarried. Step dad was abusive. Giant #hoosier brain damaged guy killed him with an axe. My hometown is known in Indiana as a great place to get away with murder, so he was just walking around free.
— I Heart Bog Witches (@EvilCEOE) February 9, 2019
Another detail I missed is he killed his abusive stepdad with an ax before he was 18. In retrospect he's something of an antihero.
— I Heart Bog Witches (@EvilCEOE) October 11, 2019
True Story: my hometown was so easy to get away with murder in that my best friend's dad had been shot in the chest at a gas station by a couple local yokels, and those guys' sons would tease him about getting away with it in high school.
— I Heart Bog Witches (@EvilCEOE) October 11, 2019
Another fun story from my hometown is the time a college student's exsanguinated (his blood was removed) corpse was run into by a farmer's plow and it was linked to a local weather man and one of the morticians but no one was ever charged
— I Heart Bog Witches (@EvilCEOE) October 11, 2019
You grew up in Eerie, Indiana?
— Kerry Reid (@kerryreid) October 12, 2019
An Eerie Halloween miracle?
Oct. 1st, 2019 11:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's snowing in Indiana: a Halloween miracle! 😅
— CharredStitchery 🧵 SEE PINNED TWEET (@CharredStitcher) October 31, 2019
No.
— Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice 🍂🎃🐈🦇🍁 (@AwwfulAdopts) October 31, 2019
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National Weatherman Day
Feb. 5th, 2019 12:12 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Wally wanted to go ice skating, I guess
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When did Westbrook become Eerie, Indiana? https://t.co/7VSduq8q0G
— uncommon sense (@grc207) January 16, 2019
Check out the spinning ice disc on the Presumpscot River in Westbrook! pic.twitter.com/dwHuGMlqK3
— Ryan Breton (@RyanBretonWX) January 15, 2019
Eerie, Indiana Rewatch 2018: Tornado Days
Dec. 8th, 2018 07:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Eerie Indiana St Switihin's Day Challenge
Jul. 15th, 2018 12:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
National Weatherman Day
Feb. 5th, 2018 12:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Eerie, Indiana fanfiction: Classes
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Eerie, Indiana Rewatch 2017: Tornado Days
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St Swithin's Day and Eerie Indiana
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