To whom it may concern

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Mark Twain Boarding House versus Wolf Mountain

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Mark Twain Boarding House versus Lake Eerie

People gathered beneath the striped awning in front of the Eerie Bus Terminal and Supper Club, grateful for the shelter that protected their elegant evening wear from the light spring rain.

The pterodactyls who made their home in the rafters of the Mark Twain Boarding House eyed the glittering sequins and starched white collars with interest, long beaks champing in anticipation of the frenzy to come.

Inside, waiters in neat red uniforms laid the finishing touches on a long line of banquet tables, bright floral centrepieces to lure human participants and high-backed chairs making a perfect perch for avian claws.

Ongoing Verse: The Powers That Be

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It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Everything Corn versus the Mark Twain Boarding House

It's Thursday, the day we dedicate to Simon's absolute best boy, Sparky the Hellhound.

This week, meet Mark Teain:

The flower beds that lined the gentle slopes surrounding Deadwod Park's Sunken Gardens were in full bloom, and the pretty white-painted benches dotted along the winding paths which lead through them were full of people on their lunch break, enjoying the sunshine and the riot of colours all around them.

A few pigeons strutted about, heads bobbing, cooing gently to one another as they waited for scraps to be dropped or thrown to them. A pterodactyl from the Mark Twain boarding house had joined them, but as it seemed content to share, so were they.

Simon tossed it a crust.

Ongoing Verse: Microwave

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The pterodactyls that nested in the eaves of the Mark Twain Boarding House all wore collars with little bells on them.

Marshall wasn't sure what the point of it was, since the airborne dinosaurs tended to screech "YARGH!" very loudly before dive-bombing anyone and as such were not exactly stealthy to begin with. Still, as he passed them sleepily shuffling on their roosts that afternoon, he had to admit that the sound was quite pleasant.

Certainly it drowned out the dry clack-clack of Mr. and Mrs. Walter-Funk's wind-chimes, which were made of human bones and multiplied at an unsettling rate.

Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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The ground floor of the Mark Twain Boarding House was a single open space, littered with easy chairs and end tables arranged in conspiratorial huddles in all the shadowed corners. The check-in desk stood against the far wall, dark wood gleaming and a huge brass bell shaped like a screaming human face sat centre-stage.

Marshall stepped inside, smelling polish and pine resin and the faint remnants of tobacco smoke. The walls were covered in paintings, and each painting was of the room where he now stood, seen from strange angles that warped familiar concepts like "lamp" and "floor" into something that made his head swim and his stomach churn.

Worse than the images of the furniture were the human figures, captured in motion so that they seemed to be struggling against a sticky web of pigment keeping them pinned to the canvass. One of the figures had too-long brown hair that caught in the collar of a khaki-green coat, and a very familiar pair of brand-name sneakers that were already falling apart.

The bell on the counter dinged loudly, though nobody was near it, and a door marked "employees only" began to swing open. Marshall Teller turned, and walked away.

Ongoing Verse: Trusted Associates Inc

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we’re staying at a haunted hotel tomorrow night and if i don’t see a ghost im gonna ask to speak to the ghost manager

— eerie indiana 🛸💖💜💙 (@indybree) March 7, 2020

It's the 14th of the month, and that's the date we put aside to think about all those amazing minor characters, places, organisations and general backdrop that make Eerie so compellingly watchable.

This month's theme is:

MARK TWAIN BOARDING HOUSE

It's Tuesday, so today you get a choice between two prompts. Pick one, combine both, pit them against each other - on Tuesday, you choose!

This week, your options are:

Lake Eerie versus Mark Twain Boarding House

It's the 14th of the month, and that's the date we put aside to think about all those amazing minor characters, places, organisations and general backdrop that make Eerie so compellingly watchable.

This month's theme is:

MARK TWAIN BOARDING HOUSE

So, this takes place in the same world as Pay Attention, but it doesn't follow on from what I wrote so far. It's definitely set some time after that story finishes, but I've had this idea in my head for a few days so, whatever, have a thing.

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