A Very Jessica Halloween

One Halloween I heard a tale

Which gave me shivers down my spine

I tried to forget – to no avail

The story became part of mine

 

For as I heard the gruesome words

Of how this creature came to be

This Jessica, of whom I heard

Began then, to appear to me

 

First from corners of my eyes

Quick flicks of shadow lurking there

Skin crept; she watched me, I surmised

I never used to easily scare

 

But how could I, now knowing this,

Not worry about what’s begun

For I heard with one bewitching kiss

She made someone cut out their tongue

 

How could I not be terrified

For she writes stories in her own blood

In nightmare darkness, likes to hide

Plays melodies to your heart’s thud

 

Which whip you into such a craze

You cannot help but take a fright

She’ll haunt your memories for days

And show up in your dreams at night

 

With black-hole eyes and husky voice

Her scrawny figure pale and scarred

Her violent presence leaves no choice

She’ll possess you; no holds barred

 

For now, if Jessica’s yet unknown

Don’t be tempted to go and look

She’s trying to make the world her own

By sharing her tale in her very own book…

 

WHICH IS BEING RELEASED TOMORROW!!!

Okay, ten points if you realised that in addition to participating in some VERY cool blog hops (Finish the Sentence Friday; OctPoWriMo; 31 Days of Horror) this is a bit of a shameless plug for the Jessica book, which I HELPED TO WRITE!

The Brainchild of Helena Hann-Basquiat, the story of Jessica has been released through the past week, culminating with the finale today (as befits Halloween), and as of TOMORROW, you will be able to buy the book, which contains secret, as-yet-unpublished material. And to celebrate, I’m hosting a little giveaway.

There’s a poem I wrote not long ago, about Jessica, over on the Well Tempered Bards. I wrote it For Real, and there’s an unsubstantiated rumour that it *might* have made it into the book. SO, I’m giving the original away, because that’s a FABULOUS piece of memorabilia for this project, and hey, whoever gets it can one day say they “knew me way back when…” SO – my terms: anyone who reviews the book and posts it on either Amazon or Goodreads, or shares it on their blog, goes into the draw, and in a week, I’ll pick the winner and announce them in the Ten Things of Thankful hop.

BOOM! You get an *awesome* creepy-as-fuck book, AND the chance to win some hand-written, original, Considerer/Jessica loot – what could be better? HAPPY HALLOWEEN!