Freebie Story - Garden Party

This drabble gone wild was written yesterday for Layla Wier’s blog and the Friday Free write. The picture I saw was just pitch blackness and 3 paper lanterns. I forgot to save it. I tried to find it but garden party was too broad a search and knowing it was from Germany and got a gay German garden party. Um...not what I was looking for (but somehow appropriate for this story). This is in my Vampires in Vegas series.


( Garden Party )

How to change your mind

After thinking about it, the Native American supernaturals would work better in the YA I've been thinking on set in Cassadaga Fl where we have and displaced Lakota boy, a psychic girl and a Croatian demon hunting kid. This may or may not be my nano (I might do a sequel to something else).

So I went back to the drawing board and came up with something the Welsh bwbach might know easily from Scotland and found these:

Biasd Bheulach, a one-legged creature that is okay with women but beats men to death.

Coluinn Cheann A headless monster that would fling his severed head much like a Dullahan. I like that he wasn't killed but rather banished. It might make sense he is in America

Or we can use something Germanic (Columbus, Pittsburgh etc have a big German populace that could have brought their bogies).

There's the Aufhocker or Wiederganger. It's a shape shifter, big dog, werewolf what have you.

And yes, I know I said I didn't really want a nursery bogie but the Kinder-Fresser is kinda cool. I mean child-guzzler, that's hard to resist. (We're lucky I'm not going with the red-legged scissorman from Struwwelpeter. I couldn't get enough of that book as a kid...which should have been my parents first clue some therapy was in order...that at Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies)

and then there's the Papstesel which is just kinda messed up.

So many choices, it's hard to choose.