The lovely Crystal chose our deepest “fears” as the topic for this week. Deep down, I think she’s keeping a list so she can torture us with it later. Make us do her bidding. Uh huh. Yep. I’m sure of it. LOL…just kidding. Since Lori decided not to do a Thursday thirteen….I don’t blame her really. Who wants to list 13 things they’re afraid of…that’s going way too deep into the psyche. But I think I can come up with six. So…here goes.

1. Spiders. No decent animal should have more than 4 legs. LOL (See tarantula incident under Crystal’s blog post.
2. Snakes. No decent animal should have zero legs. Come on. Slinking around on the floor/ground like that. I don’t have a good snake story like the tarantula one. We did find one in our house when I was still living with my parents. It was hiding in the closet in the hallway where the water heater was.
3. Let’s just add all things creepy crawly. Ants. Roaches. Water bugs. All things that should NOT enter your living domain. That’s why I keep and retain a pest man. I’m not necessarily “scared” of them….I. JUST. DON’T. LIKE. THEM.
4. Being poor and destitute. Enough said. I don’t think that needs an explanation.
5. Something terrible happening to my children. I shall NOT go into the thoughts that pop into my mind every time my children leave the house. Of course…I don’t think I’m alone in this. I know I can’t protect them ALL the time. I have to let them “live” and be kids. If I didn’t, I’d drive them and myself crazy.
6. Failure. Every writer faces this at some point…if not all the time. Different fears. Fear of rejection. Fear of acceptance. Fear of not completing a story. Fear of not coming up with another story. Fear of bad reviews. Fear of no one liking their stories. Fear of success and not staying successful. Need I go on. We’re a weird but lovable bunch.

Now that’s scary…I was able to come up with six. I didn’t think I’d be able to and I’d be sitting here twiddling my thumbs and have to come up with another idea. LOL See…I told you…we’re a weird bunch.

Hope you had a great week!

2 Responses to “Scary Saturday Six”

1. Crystal Jordan Says:
   August 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm

   Poor…been there, done that. Never going back.

   And all creepy crawlies must die.

2. Jennifer McKenzie Says:
   August 23rd, 2008 at 9:51 pm

   I hear you Lyric. I wonder why my fears that bother me the most are more internal?
   And I don’t even want to think about something awful happening to my loved ones. Does denial count as fear?