Red Wolf's Room

  Photo by  cottonbro  from  Pexels This has been a very strange month for me on an emotional level. I wrote this poem as a way to expel my feelings and, hopefully, be able to enjoy fall and October, my favorite season and month. I've been working on a novella written in the second perspective for many months, so it bled into this poem. I will provide the music and videos that inspired me below the poem. Enjoy. The Phantom Presence The gravelly voice floats in the air, Warm and crunchy like crème brûlée.  Whispers of soothing affirmations replay In the depths of your heart so fair.  But silence steals it all away At the dawning of each day. Where once divine fingers danced across ivories,  Chopin's Nocturne haunting you with delight, Like the tantalizing Starry Night . "Darling," he'd say, taking away your miseries. But through shreds of narrow daylight floats Your mind, lost in fog and dust motes.  The water glass beside the bed shimmers bare. He...

With my more mature eyes, I am delving into a much earlier book of Eric Wilson's Tom and Liz Mystery series. Funnily enough Book #3: The Case of the Golden Boy references Book 19: The Lost Treasure of Casa Loma , which I reviewed a few months back. Uncle Henry briefly mentions a friend of his who owns a castle and keeps his diamonds hidden in the building.  This story takes place in Winnipeg. The Golden Boy statue mentioned in the book is located on top of the Legislative building in Manitoba and was erected in 1919. It is based on the god Mercury to symbolize eternal youth and the spirit of enterprise. The Golden Boy faces North because this was the "future of Manitoba" at the time. The statue is depicted in a running stance while holding a sheaf of wheat and a torch, which represent the fruits of labor and a call for youth to come together and make the future a prosperous one. Photo by  Mahesh Gupta  on  Unsplash ; Right: Legislature Building You Should Read...

It was a pleasant and nostalgic surprise to learn that it was the 25th anniversary for Blue's Clues . And most of all, Steve came back! I was quite young at the time when I watched the show, but I loved it because it had a doggy, a mystery, and you were given the chance to solve it yourself and be part of the show. It had fun characters and songs that were short but memorable. And the best part was the host, Steve.  But one day, I turned the TV on and Steve wasn't on the show anymore. It was shocking, disappointing and confusing since they never played the episodes in order. Suddenly, someone named Joe was there and Steve was not. I never knew what happened because I never saw the final episode of him going off  to college. I think I tried to watch a few episodes with Joe and my parents guessed that Joe was maybe Steve's cousin. I tried to watch the episodes with Joe, but it wasn't the same. And so, I stopped watching.  At school, some of my classmates also watched Blue...

Photo by  Alisa Anton  on  Unsplash People have been longing for fall all through August on Instagram, and I've been listening to autumn ambiences and music, including Nancy Drew: Midnight in Salem 's soundtrack . I thought I'd delve into some old and new stories that bring about the dark, stormy, spooky, and magical atmosphere that we all love about fall. --Spoilers Ahead-- Photo by  m wrona  on  Unsplash Gothic Reads I lean more towards Gothic literature, for example, poetry of the Romantics. I like a certain level of scariness, but a lot of the times, especially in the 2000s, people mix scary with gory, which I hate. They are two different things. It's the same thing with Halloween decorations. Police crime tape is not Halloween. Growing up, it was not a decoration. It's related to gory true crime stuff, not Halloween. It's why I hate Halloween. People jump to gross stuff when that's not what Halloween was originally about. But I digress. Dracula &...