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Prompt: morris dancing

I always said that I'd write a story based in the strange and often drunken world of morris dancing. Here I believe I can claim to have been the first person in the history of ever to combine morris dancing and the Cthulhu mythos. I would like my prize now, please.

Cthulhu cheers me up no end. I actually feel sufficiently recovered that I might be able to sleep now. :D

May Day

They danced in the main street while stallholders did a brisk trade in toffee apples and sausages in bread. They danced back and forth, sometimes with white handkerchiefs flicking one-two, sometimes with staves of wood that thunked and clicked against each other. They did Ducks in the Privy, Shave the Donkey, Portsmouth, Pershore and Queen's Delight, and Tom did four jigs. Finally, as sunset started in, they started on the first dance in their final set, called Innsmouth Hey. They followed on with Hastur's Fancy, Flowers of Arkham and Madness in the Mill.

The onlookers who escaped before the Old Ones rose from the sea and came upon the shore could not ever afterwards hear the sound of bells without screaming.

Date: 2007-11-16 11:37 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chn-breathmint.livejournal.com
This story delights me from the top of my head to the tips of my toes.

- Mel

Date: 2007-11-17 10:26 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] delirieuse.livejournal.com
I'm so pleased! I showed it to Steph, and she was like "... and?"

She morris dances, but doesn't know anything about Lovecraft.

Date: 2007-11-17 12:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chn-breathmint.livejournal.com
There was just a little bit of wicked glee, I guess, of the mental image of the Great Old Ones rising up from the sea and devouring the troupe and audience, similar to the sensation you get when you see Godzilla stomping Tokyo in the old rubber suit movies.

- Mel

Date: 2007-11-18 10:08 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] daharja.livejournal.com
Hmmm...but why not a morris dancing Cthulhu, instead of merely combining the two ideas?

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