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\"dreamcreatures001\"They say that long ago a group of hunters were running through the forest, deep into depths where they had never ventured before.\u00a0 It was a sacred place, and though they knew to never hunt there, they had gotten turned about and were not quite sure where they ran.\u00a0 A glitter of light cut through the trees as it reflected off the back of their prey.\u00a0 Second to the front, a young man on his fifth hunt let his arrow fly.\u00a0 The others sent their arrows after it.\u00a0 They heard the cry of the bird as it hit the ground a few yards away and they trotted over to surround it and take stock of the kill.<\/p>\n

Sprawled on the floor of the forest was a gorgeous bird, made of light and wind, a trickle of blood painting a line down the side of its neck.\u00a0 Their hearts sank as they realized the sin they had committed.\u00a0 A low rumbling preceded the darkness that fell over the middle of the day.\u00a0 The hunters slowly fell to their knees, praying hands raised above their heads in supplication to an angry god.<\/p>\n

They were sentenced an eternity of death in their sin.\u00a0 White birds dropped from the sky, onto and around each hunter, still crouched in prayer.\u00a0 When the birds alighted, each carried with it a head, fused within it like some hideous tumor, and raising from between their wings were the praying fingers of each hunter.\u00a0 The hunter’s bodies collapsed onto the ground, headless and handless.<\/p>\n

The hunter’s misery, forever not quite dead and not quite alive inside their bird tombs, will infect anyone who gazes into their face for more than a moment and drive them mad.<\/p>\n

\"dreamcreatures003\"<\/p>\n

One of these creatures was in my dream last night, trapped in my utility room that wasn’t really my utility room.\u00a0 We were trying to let it out the door without looking it in the face, but then the alarm went off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

They say that long ago a group of hunters were running through the forest, deep into depths where they had never ventured before.\u00a0 It was a sacred place, and though they knew to never hunt there, they had gotten turned about and were not quite sure where they ran.\u00a0 A glitter of light cut through… Continue reading Dream Creatures<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[118,53],"class_list":["post-5764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-dreams","tag-stories"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9704,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/04\/30\/walpurga-and-the-wild-hunt\/","url_meta":{"origin":5764,"position":0},"title":"Walpurga and the Wild Hunt","author":"leems","date":"April 30, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"By Peter Nicolai Arbo - Nasjonalmuseet, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=78150204 Walpurgisnacht is known in the Germanic countries of central Europe as a night when the dead walk the earth, when witches and fairies roam about, and the division between the worlds of living and those of the dead are thin.\u00a0 Falling\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Blog"","block_context":{"text":"Blog","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/category\/blog\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1280px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Odin_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1280px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Odin_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1280px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Odin_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1280px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Odin_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/1280px-La_caza_salvaje_de_Odin_por_Peter_Nicolai_Arbo.jpg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":503,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2011\/10\/25\/the-witches-project\/","url_meta":{"origin":5764,"position":1},"title":"The Witches project","author":"leems","date":"October 25, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"After my new website redesign I realized that I've never really talked about some of the projects I show-cased, and, it being October and Halloweeny and all, I thought this was a perfect time to talk about my witches project. 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