“This is the stuff of nightmares.”
Nina grinned and admired her handiwork. “This is the idea.”
Daniel shuddered. This thing was creepy even in full daylight. He could only imagine how it would appear in twilight or moonlight or through a flashlight’s beam. “Did you have to make it so KKK?”
Nina’s grin slipped and quivered but returned. “Not the intent, but perhaps the effect will nonetheless be meaningful.”
Daniel scratched his afternoon whiskers. Itchy stuff, all that growing up. “How so?”
“A dilapidated, pathetically-desperate-for-a-shower bully racist figure protecting a multi-racial, pluralistic graveyard is perhaps quite apt. Don’t you think?”
Photo prompt: © Sandra Crook
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers
Na'ama Yehuda 
I liked the KKK allusion
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Ah, well, it does kinda’ look sorta eh?
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Now there’s a bunch of people I’ll never understand, the KKK. Even if you have to be a hateful racist, what’s with the weird cloaks and pointy hats?! Nutters. Nice take 🙂
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Yeah, I think it has a combination of hubris (Templar knights, protectors, whatever), and practicality (to hide their faces, because they’re basically cowards, as any bully is). Also, I guess they all had old sheets at home (and I shudder at the thought of what’s been on those … ;)). But in short, yeah, hubris and cowardice combined.
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Very apt Na’ama
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Thank you, Sadje!
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You’re welcome 😉
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🙂
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It does definitely have that KKK look. And yes, rather apt at protecting this particular graveyard 🙂
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I know, right??!!! I’m so glad it isn’t only my kooky head that saw this … 😉
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LOL… true ’nuff.
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😀
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Creepy is creepy! Didn’t see KKK before, now I can’t unsee it!
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oops … sorry … 😉 (not sorry …)
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Love the irony! Poetic justice, I would say! Even the ghosts would be pleased 😀
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Ah, I am pretty sure the ghosts are having the last laugh! 🙂
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Na’ama Y’karah,
I love the irony. Now that you mention it, the scarecrow does have a very KKK feel to it. Creeeeepy with a capital K. Nicely done.
Shalom and happy eighth night tonight.
Rochelle
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Thank you … and … there’s nothing like stripping a bully of its power by putting it to work to serve what it wished to harm … 😉
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There definitely is a bit of KKK about it.
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I know, right??!! Glad you saw it, too! 🙂
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I think we are all agreed – it’s very apt! Delightfully different, Na’ama.
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Thank you, Keith! If I’m different, might as well try to be delightfully so … ;D Thank you my friend!
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Yep, it would keep me out.
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Me three!
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I nod in understanding of the undercurrents. I also smile, for there is humour there. Wry, to be sure, but it’s there
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Ah, well, guilty as charged … 😉
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🙂
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That’s one in the eye for the KKK nutters 🙂
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In the eye? (some might have other ‘destination’ in mind, but, yeah … there’s no place for their kind of hate in a civilized, humane society)
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I was thinking that too when I saw the picture! But I like what you did with it. Fun story.
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Thanks, Anne!
I’ll be checking out others’ stories tomorrow! I hope yours will be there, too!
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