#uncanny mountain

[write-as-rains]

Deja Vu

This uncanny mountain

that is constantly climbed

& tumbled down

weathers.

Leaving in its absence

a haunted dream

mirrored and unyielding

to each escaping echo-

[chucklingpecan]

In the forest on this uncanny mountain humans retain their tails and the gods hammer directives into stone

[cruxymox]

i have heard the cry of beautiful horror, as i climbed

as i climbed

the feeble creek dark ran down

carrying the dregs of strange cliffs above, as i climbed

as i climbed

my walking stick turned into serpent, coiling & hissing

tree roots burning into me, as i climbed

as i climbed

[ a beautiful horror, our human torn in the clawfoot tub with the green vines & lichen thick, arm over edge indicating towards the small broken window where beyond the stars crawled to a synthesizer dirge. a beautiful horror, eyes were open,

butterflies tried to escape the small glass spheres of vision. a beautiful horror stirred in the water, splashing ( feeble dark creek ) gentle over rim, a waterfall bright spilled over onto rotten floorboards, as i climbed

as i climbed

this uncanny mountain seemed unending, peakless, an impossible math equation

& something from below, behind, called out, as i climbed

as i climbed

& then i understood the Caprimulgiform sound, & i fell

& as i fell ( tree roots burning tried to reach for me )

& as i fell ( so close )

i fell & as

i fell, i fell

] into water, ocean electric & pale, a new fragile cloth surface covers white, a cloth surface ( over the rim ) covers so

grey, so ever dark, now so

blue, a mountain so looms only in the depths or dregs of my drowning, my memory, my self

& this now

this now i will climb.

[karmaalwayswins]

@writerscreed prompt 247: uncanny mountain

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A tiny ghost floats up an uncanny mountain on April 9, 1921. A baby reaches for her mother. A cat eats a mouse.

These things are not related.

A tiny ghost floats up an uncanny mountain on August 11, 1957. A dog is startled. A stone falls.

These things are related. 

A tiny ghost floats up an uncanny mountain on September 25, 2021. A book is forgotten on a boat.  A man meets a woman.

These things will become related. 

A tiny ghost floats down an uncanny mountain on June 12, 2057. The actual last veteran of World War I dies. An alien from Alpha Centauri makes first contact with Earth.

These things might be related. 

[deepsubmission]

The Big Uncandy Mountain

In the Big Rock Candy Mountains There's a land that's fair and bright Where the handouts grow on bushes And you sleep out every night

Where the boxcars all are empty And the sun shines every day And the birds and the bees And the cigarette trees

The lemonade springs Where the bluebird sings In the Big Rock Candy Mountains

Harry went on and on like this, listing off the great aspects of a utopian hobo world where everything was free and only good things happened.

Shut up Harry. That's not what we're talking about. It's Uncanny Mountain, you jackass. We're talking Das Unheimlich, remember, Freud talked about how scenic and beautiful...

OHHHH, sure, YOU"RE sophisticated if you mention Freud, I'm just a simpleton who quotes ole timey tunes that doesn't get to offer opinions.

Harry, don't interrupt me, you only like that song because you heard it in Oh Brother.

Yea? Yea? Well, yea, but it still doesn't make your comment acceptable. I'll bet you'd shut the hell up of I brought up Questionable Research Practices and statistical patterns of the Uncanny p-Mountains. And how low power is not a sufficient explanation for them. Statistically speaking.

They argue long into the night and eventually slip and tumble down the uncanny mountain to their death.