winking on air as in a cornfield somewhere in Kansas the maze grabs another tourist . . . stalks that reach out and snatch . . . first someone’s poodle that ran ahead with the leash left writhing like a fallen snake . . . then a child and then who knows . . . a good day to go pumpkin picking at the pumpkin patch and all that but no . . . wanting to be home for popcorn and Netflix with everyone on the sofa and that not to be . . .

my fall series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The image is in the collections of the Cooper Hewitt in New York.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-837

whispering on air as in the putrid miasma of a broken into mausoleum in the abandoned cemetery down the lane the crows caw . . . cawing for whoever is buried there and forgotten . . . cawing for a past that is gone and a future no one wants at least not if they knew what was to come . . . maybe it can be changed around yet . . . maybe not . . .

my fall series post published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is a ceiling detail at the Royal Holloway Sanatorium, Virginia Water, Surrey, England.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-c1f

sparkling on air on the thud of a coconut as it falls from a palm tree as on the far side of Juno under the warmth of a very distant star a sign starts to flash . . . intergalatic neon in iridescent shades like mother of pearl in the bottom of the sea but brighter like a trillion suns . . . beckoning it is and shooting up with leaps and bounds . . . another few days and earthlings can see . . . come, it says . . . maybe it would be better . . . maybe you’ll be sorry . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link. Please keep scrolling to see all the pictures- These are images with a common theme but a wide variety of styles, times, artists, etc

The image is from the Dennison Company Archives @dennisonarchivist on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-7a5

waltzing in air as the raptor awakens from her morning nap and stares down from the top of the mast of a ghostly ship . . . what will she find . . . who knows . . . a haunted something for the end of the world . . .

my series post for today published to my Substack at the link if you’d like to see it. The image is Rotten pumpkin. ca. 2021. American. beadwork. Kathleen Ryan, artist via aizenmaj on Instagram.

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-d30

wailing along as the ancient monks readjust their hoods and make their way up the volcano’s last slope through sulphur smelling steam and smoke . . . prayers and a desperate anything . . . the fire goddess appeased . . . or perhaps not . . .

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-f37

my series post for today at the link if you’d like to see it. Its around 20 images including this one

Purple dragon. 2021. @Lanaasy on Instagram. via Instagram.

scintillating on air as deep in an equatorial sea a long-dead sea monster starts to inch back into life . . . a stretch and a chunk of something swimming by for a little pick-me-up and a smile . . . fun today it will be . . . people on fishing boats to startle and navy ships to spook . . . no sea monsters they think but no not made up in some long-ago book but real, spouting water higher than the biggest geyser in Iceland and a tail strong enough to push any ship straight to the bottom. . .oh no . . . an aircraft carrier and all it’s little planes hovering like flies over something dead but a few chomps and the stern ripped off and the flies drowned . . . free

my fall series post for today published to my Substack at the link. The artwork is “The Witch’s Daughter” by Frederick Edwin Church. Enjoy!

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/very-eerie-pre-halloween-art-for-585

April 2, 1919.

Picking up her eraser, Kathy Leonard goes back to her arithmetic homework. More interesting than English class and the new paper having to be written, true, but needing to erase bits ten times more often and that not seeming to be a good thing.

One good part, each problem being like its own little house with that good feeling when one was finished. Not like most of the classes where you could read and read and it still seemed to take forever to finish. If only “Silas Marner” was as interesting as the books in the library, she thought. If it was you could read if in a jiffy not a month when the teacher said two weeks.

These are the first paragraphs of Scene I in my upcoming coming of age 5,000 word piece which will be over on my Substack with a link here. I’ve written more than the first two paragraphs here so you can read them at the link of you like

https://sarahbguestperry.substack.com/p/el-phoenix