I scream "It's Halloween!"

 Today's freeXpressions prompt was Scream

which led to these haikus:

cleaning nightmare

hard water stains on the glass

preventable

my face during

my annual health screening

prostate cancer check

that feeling

when someone eats

the last slice

your teeth

they’re so white

nice

the vacant eye scream

of a bursting bladder and

nowhere to pull off

lexicon contest

synonyms of “doom”

I won

I pulled a muscle

in the middle of the night

stretching

scream after “it

was a dark and stormy night”

not before

And then I wrote this microfiction:

Knight terrors. I know them well. Bad years bring midnight visits from his lordship’s retinue to all the surrounding farms to “encourage us” to do better. Horrors inflicted on my family don’t make crops grow better or keep insects away. The endless cycle of collecting taxes to keep the collectors fed thus enabling future levies - it’s a bitter pill for a man of the earth. But I can turn philosophical later; right now I’m forced to witness this latest knight terror.