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Halloween Spooktacular
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Show Notes
Our Story begins on stormy night in an ancestral family
home. Every family has its secrets,
things that are only spoken about in whispers if at all. Diva senses something is not quite right as
she begrudgingly gets ready for a Halloween party. Somewhere between a few quiet moments and a
wicked storm all hell breaks loose…
No Kidding this one is really Rated PG and Family
Friendly. Oh it’s sick but not a sick
joke as Malflic takes a turn telling scary stories about things that go bump in
the night all in the name of a little Halloween fun. The narration and female
leads characters are voiced by his own daughters Diva & Lilly (who this
week decided she wanted to now be called by her middle name Kayliegh). So…moving right along.
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AS always you can find out more about the author at
malflic.com where you’ll find his first adult oriented Novel “ It had Been Years” available for free.
This episode is a based on “Dances in The Shadows” A
Fictional Story by Michael Malflic
Cast
Malflic – Host, Mark, Male Chanting
Kayleigh Malflic – Narrator
Diva Malflic – Diva & Creature
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All Music and Sound Effects were Digital Juice Royalty Free
Products.
Recorded on Sony Acid Software with Alesis Equipment and MXL Mics
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Episode Photo “Summer Moon on a Cloudy Night” Copyright 2009
Diva Malflic
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“Dances in the
Shadows” Script
Malflic
Welcome to the Exercising My Demons Halloween Spooktackular. As always I’m your host Malflic. Today you’re
joining us during the time of year where the modern world celebrates; or fears
the dead honoring ancient pagan customs, and perhaps even the bravest of souls
worry just a little bit more about what evils is out there lurking in the
night. Ghosts, spirits, vampires and
perhaps the most terrifying of all political candidates and social activists who
are roaming the world with nefarious intentions. God only knows how much sleep I’ve lost
worrying about those demented beings showing up at my door. For most of us though it’s the time of year
where seemingly normal people dress up
as hideous monsters, as angels, and demons and dress as sexy creatures
in exotic costumes outside of the bed room. Which
is nice since it makes it that much easier for the Goth kids to go out and not
be viewed as Satanist freaks and real demons to roam around unnoticed. Seeing as I like the shadows and have met
many of the most interesting people in them that’s out topic for today. With that in mind, In the name of all that
is unholy, undead, and downright terrifying sit back relax let you imagination
run wild and so we begin…. Dances in the shadows
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Narrator ....
It was a moonless night. The kind of night where the sun gives way to
total darkness just a little too quickly and the moon has all but ceased to
exist. The kind of twilight where stars
don’t dare to shine, not even a little and in the dead of night. No matter how dark it is at any given moment there
are shadows lurking not that far away that are even darker. The house had a chill to it that meant the
end of summer had most certainly given way to fall. The tree outside had shed its leaves and the
bare branches cast unrelenting images of boney hands the house’s large ancient
windows.
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(The Phone rings)....
Diva: ....
Hello. (pause)
I just walked in and haven’t even
started to get ready yet.
(disgusted) It’ll be at least an hour.
Besides when was last time I wasn’t
fashionably late.
So what are you wearing?
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I
don’t know Costume parties always have a way of being so lame.
OK, OK…I’ll be festive just for
you.
Narrator
As Diva rattled alone though the
big old house, down into the basement and back up carrying a bag filled with
out of style clothes and remnants of costumes of year past. She threw them into a heap on the couch.
Picking out an outfit that reminded
her of her first grade teacher
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Diva
I’ve got it! (Excited tone)
I’ll come as a witch disguised as a
teacher.
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Narrator
It was an inside joke. Even now she wasn’t convinced that her first
grade teacher didn’t roam the night on a broom stick. In truth it was a fair question considering
how miserable the woman still was.
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Diva
Fine I’ll hurry.
No you’ll just have to guess which
one me when people arrive. And I’d
better not find you frolicking with any woodland creatures when I get there!
I told you. It’ll be a surprise…but I promise you’ll like
it.
Narrator
That was it the conversation was
over; no fare wells no good byes. Soon
after diva discarded her phone and purse, and she danced through the shadows. Up the old stairs that creaked and moaned with
her every step, pausing momentarily on
the landing to adjust the thermostat in hopes of taking the chill out of the
air.
Diva;
Ahh. This damn
place. Too hot in the summer, freezing
cold in the winter and too far from everything.
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Narrator: the furnace bellowed forcing gust of
tepid air through the cold metal pipes and up through the floor registers. Just
then a shadow in the foyer seemed to move and caught her eye
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Diva;
Gasp…(in a tentative voice) Hello? is anybody there?
Narrator ;
but the wind just howled, and the creaks of the furnace in the old house
filled the silenece while the ancient oak on the front lawn lurched ominously
forward toward the house. Diva spoke out
loud to comfort herself.
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Diva: It
almost looks as if the tree was dancing. It looked like it was dancing just
like I had been in the hall way. Oh it
couldn’t be.
Narrator
You see it’s the things one never considers that haunts them the
most. So while she drew her bath, the
wild winds howled. As she sat in the
candle light not actually intending to hurry the tree outside continued to sway
and dance.
Then it happened.
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Diva
Door! (Startled voice) Hello?
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Narrator: then she heard (insert foot steps) ....
Her mind had a way of playing
tricks on her.
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Diva: Maybe
if I hurry I won’t be late.
Male: / Narrator: Time is nothing
she had ever stopped to consider. Its
relentless never ending march forward. Dive scurried quickly down the stairs.
Redialed the phone. The plan was to expedite the time line. She hurried into a dress. Pulled her hair back, and slipped into to
her highest heels. The all night drug
store would offer her a chance to pick up a halo and wings on the way and there
you have it an instant angel.
Narrator:
Suddenly Diva had no desire to be alone.
It was one of those moments when her mind was playing tricks on her.
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Diva: it
feels like some one is watching me.
Narrator she said to herself as she waited for an
answer. She dialed her Phone
Phone Voice mail....
You’ve reached Mark….I’m off doing
I probably shouldn’t be so leave a message and I’ll ring you back.
Diva: (angry)
Mark You jerk! I knew you wouldn’t
answer the damn phone. Look I’m leaving
now and should be there in about 20 minutes.
Call me back as soon as you get this.
And quit laughing because I’m
serious and on my way
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Narrator: (read
slowly) The shadows moved. Diva Gasped and then stood perfectly
still. The floor creaked again. (tensely/nervous)
She knew that noise. It was the same one
the floor made when she walked over it. (normal
voice) The house had been in the family for years. But it had always
been rented out until she moved in.
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Diva; (Scared)
Who there? God Damn it I can see you
moving!
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Narrator: (Slowly) But on one answered
back. Instead the wind just howled (3
second pause) and the rain threw itself violently against the
house. Diva grabbed her hat and she
grabbed her coat and she ran out into the street. She could feel someone following her. It was like the old tree was bending over to
grab her as she went past.
Diva;
Soaked! I’m so glad the car has heated seats.
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Narrator:
Once she was sure she wasn’t followed.
The very second she was convinced that it was only her mind and that
nothing was after her Diva made her way to the car.
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Diva:
(Humming a tune)
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Narrator:
Feeling more like herself again Diva Sung and Danced in the rain. The old tree towered over head with branches
swaying in the wind and moving eerily along with her as she made her way past
the side of the house. To the back,
care free.
She started her car. (5
second pause)
Threw it into reverse and then
pulled back toward the street. (slowly) That’s when her mind started .
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Diva:
Insert a long Gasp
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Narrator: (Quickly/ Startled) She thought she
saw an old woman…(Pause/ Slowly) dancing naked in the rain. Skinny, hunched over and skeletal. (pause) Diva’s eyes
darted to the house, and then the street.
(pause/ slowly) Senses tingling. (pause/ Quickly) Heart
Racing!
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The she saw it a branch that had
fallen from the old tree. It was there
in the middle of the driveway. Once
again she found herself outside the car. Standing in the rain.
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Diva: At
least I’m not wearing any make up for this monsoon to smear. Wretched old wood.
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Narrator: she said as approaching the fallen
branch. (Pause/Errily ) A branch
stuck out like an out stretched arm. The
bark was bare and rotted. To Diva it
felt like she was grabbing a dead hand.
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She Felt Weak, as she pulled it to
the edge of the driveway.
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Her very being began to wither, her
face became tired and drawn. Soon she
could barely stand. And as she slumped to the ground, falling into a small hole
in the edge of the garden the branch wrapped itself around Diva. (pause) and with a might shove hurled her
into the garden.
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Creature; Now
who is wretched old wood? (insert a demented shriek and an evil laugh) Of course you danced so beautifully. But now I’ll be the one that is dancing.
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Narrator: The branch now stood there in the rain. Now longer withered (pause), no longer
twisted or wretched rather a woman stood there glowing like an angel in a
silvery white dress long Curly hair and a radiant and obviously evil
smile.
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Creature; Do
like my face?
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Narrator: She cackled watching the last glimmer of
life leaving Diva’s blue eyes. The Creature kicked dirt over what had been
Diva’s body but now looked like like a broken sapling with a tuft of overgrown
crab grass.
Creature You
always looked so much like me. Even as a
child. I’d watch you play, so young so full of life. A life that I had every intention of having
once again for myself.
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Narrator;
Diva couldn’t move she felt like stone, but she could still hear her own
thoughts. She remembered her grandmother
telling tales of the old tree out front and how it was as much a part of Diva’s
family as she was.
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Creature:
Let’s hope for your sake that Mark really does fancy a few woodland
creatures.
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Narrator:
And with that she drove off (pause) disappearing like a ghost into the
night. The image of the woman’s face
still swimming in Diva’s head as she laid there not certain what had become of
her or why she couldn’t move. Except
with the wind.
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Soon after the Shimmering creature that had
left Diva arrived where Mark was. She
followed the sensation of his very being to find him. Stepping out of the car and entering the
build her Soft white dress and black boots glistened in the emerging moon
light.
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Mark: Look at her. She’s glowing, literally her skin is
shimmering.
Narrator: If only he had known what he was saying. Perhaps he would have thought twice. But no he found her intoxicating as she dance
across the room toward him.
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Mark: You got here quicker than I imagined.
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Creature: (Coyly)
It felt like an eternity.
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Mark: By
anyone’s standards you’re early.
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Creature:
(speaking out loud but mainly to herself) You have no idea what an
eternity is. Well at least not yet. This is a night where sick thing are lurking
in the shadows. Dark things you have
not yet even begun to imagine are lurking in the night. Waiting for you.
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Mark: There
is something so different about you tonight Diva.
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Creature: Yes
something beautiful and deranged.
Something ancient and mystical.
Magic is floating in the night.
(teasingly) and the magic you can all most taste it.
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Mark: actually
I was thinking you might have had a few drinks already since you weren’t so
uptight but sure magic. After all it’s
Halloween.
OK go ahead and dance just leave me
here
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Narrator; and the person thought to be Diva
did. She slid into the crowd, she danced
perfectly the entire night. Skin shimmering, dress float like a ghost. And everyone was watching her. The night was hers and only hers. As 11:00 drew near she began to gather an
assortment of women dressed as fairies, and witches. Inviting them all to leave with her and come
to party that would end all parties.
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Creature:
There will be Dancing and music.
Food and Drinks and when the moon is just right and the shadows have
cast themselves perfectly against the time that has passed and the eternity
that remains you will see sights like never before.
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Narrator
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So despite the odd invitation and
XX that had made Diva seem not quite like her self they followed. And as
promised the house was filled with music, the bodies and souls of her guests
undulated with reckless abandon. The
Old Oak outside swayed in the winds casting its shadow through the windows.
Across the street .
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Narrator
By then the rain had long since
stopped by The Party Raged on. Until in unison with the shadows of the
moonlight Celestial music floating through the air she ran outside.
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Creature: They’re here!
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Insert chanting
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Everyone come outside its time, its
time its finally time. All of you fairies,
and witches the magic is upon us
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Narrator: (slowly)
There were 13 men in long brown robes gathered around the tree. It seemed that they were singing but no one
could understand their enchanting words.
The tree still swayed with the music even through the wind had died
completely.
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(Deep scary voice) That’s when it happened.
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Creature
(Almost in an evil nurse rhyme Voice)
The Chants The chants
We call out her name
From stone to flesh
I’m man again
And woman comes from barren wood
When she’s back to life where all
is good
So give you souls and grant her your
youth
Because while stone is forever her
bones seek the truth
So Glisten in moon light skin so
devine
She now lives eternal and sadly its
time
To turn you to the things she is when she sleeps
Just a twisted old branch that is
part of the tree
A witch a witch
Dances on air
Across the moonlight
Oh children beware
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A turn of fate, a twisted truth
On a dark night when you danced in
the rain
Her blood did flow is the young
girls veins
Near an old tree in the wind who
moved when it swayed.
She dance s again, like death in
the night
And everything wrong and it just
feels so right.
Narrator
The Branches fell from the trees on
the party guests. They grabbed them
draining their life and their beauty and their youth. The fallen branches that at first seemed like
noting more than twisted old wood slowly became came human twisted wretched old
women, emancipated, sullen with starvation
drawn cheeks.
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Narrator: The longer they held their prey the
transformed into shining creatures with angelic shimmering skin that
glowed. Soft white gowns and shiny black
boots that glistened in the moon light more with each prolonged touch that
drained the very life out of their victims.
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The creatures now dancing in the
night over what was now just dead wooden braches.
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All the while the woman thought to
be Diva held Mark to the ground with the strength of 1000 men.
Narrator
Dragging him across the drive way
like a rag doll. Pushing his hand against the Branch where the real Diva sat
motionless trapped in her own thoughts and screaming silently in horror. The creature was ravishing as she trust Mark
against the branches of the sapling shape.
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Slow Diva regained her shape and
then the creature spoke.
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Creature: (gently and grandmotherly) You always were such a lovely Girl but such a
hideous look you’re giving me. My Dear
you weren’t there that long to be so upset.
Do you recognize me? Still
speechless I see. Well You do have my
face I’m your great grandmother’s, great, great grand mother Nadiusehenka. Welcome to your family’s Coven.
We’ve been waiting out there for you
for so long.
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(Indifferent / cold) Yes, about that your friends well they are
all VERY dead
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Narrator
So remember next time you’re out on a cold, rainy or moonless night.
There just might be something lurking in those shadows waiting for you. On a night where the wind howls and the rain
falls down in buckets and the shadows dance
you might not want to dance with them.
After all its an invitation for them to join you and unless its your
ancestors (long pause. Scary voice) it might not end well for you
personally.
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Outro....
As always Thanks for listening to Exercising my Demons. I know this episode was very different from
our standard fare but if nothing else it was a first and I personally hope you truly
enjoyed it. I’d like to extend my
special thanks to our Narrator today Lilith Kayliegh Malflic and Diva Malflic
who played herself and the creature.
Some people are just holiday people. Well when your soul is a little bit tainted
what better holiday to love than Halloween.
After all it was 17 years ago this Halloween that the Blonde and I
officially entered into our unholy union.
I think the two of us are the only ones who thought it would last. Fortunately we’re the only ones who were
right.
So as we celebrate the pagan holiday of my anniversary. Take a little candy from strangers, trick or
treat and drive safely and of course think twice when walking alone in the
night especially if you’re by a bare
twisted old tree.