Appending The Past

by Sebastian Michaels

Chapter 1

Tonight, watcher of the late hour,
we begin broadcasting a sour
episode in our history–
one that’s still an unsolved mystery.

There’s a man who dreamt of unreal pines,
who finds himself entangled in vines.
There’s another running the front desk
of a motel that is quite arabesque.

If you were to open a message,
whether it be from the sky or sea,
with a fate you could never presage,
would you receive it, or let it be?

Time is funny, in a cosmic sense;
a deal with the devil in past tense
weighs the same as loss in the present.
Yet ugly. And very unpleasant.

Tonight’s tale begins where stars blink,
and a bottle’s message sealed in ink.
Settle in, for The Strangest Unknown
does well to never leave you alone.

I am your host,
Sebastian Michaels,
and this is
Bizarre Tales.