The 60-Second Sabbath

haunting

  • A Caution for Parents

    That something lived beneath my bedwas simply not the question."That thing is all inside your head,"was Mama's stern suggestion. But then one evening while she frownedbeside the bed and lectured,it grabbed her ankles, pulled her down,as I had long conjectured.… Continue reading

  • Hauntings

    We are our own ghosts.We are what goes bump in our nights.We the ones who rearrange the nicknacks,later confounding ourselves,wondering who (or what?) moved that thingfrom the living room to the bedroom,from the study to the garage. We are the… Continue reading

  • Rationality

    "I don't believe in ghosts, you see,but only rationality–for every bell, a well-blown whistle,never down without its thistle."     "But what of things untouched, unheard,    unseen, unmetered, just inferred?    The hair that lifts along the nape    when flames of candles shift their… Continue reading

  • I Don’t Believe

    "I don't believe in hauntings,"she said."There's always some sortof rational explanation."  "I've heard your rational explanations,"he answered,"and many are so absurd,not even a ghost would believe them."  Text and image © 2011 by Dirk deVries. All rights reserved.  Continue reading

  • Halloween: Ghosts

    The woman believes in ghosts. She believes in ghosts because, each night around two in the morning, she sees them. They enter her bedroom, and, in the dim light from the streetlamp halfway down the block, she makes out their… Continue reading