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Wednesday, June 9th, 2010
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5:26 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: The story behind my name
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The story behind my name? Behind the name Carol Anne? I don’t know if there is one.
It was just a name that Mommy and Daddy liked, so it became mine when I was born. I don’t know if they named me after anybody. I don’t think so, unless we have ancestors I don’t know about called Carol or Anne or both. It’s not a weird or unusual name, but it’s not really, really common, either. I like it – it’s a name that has always fitted me and seemed like the right one.
I’ve been told that “Carol” means “strong” and Anne means “grace” so they make a good combination, meaning-wise. It’s a positive sort of name to give a kid, so I guess that’s why I’ve always liked it.
I think it’s important to consider the meaning of a name before giving it to a baby. I’m pretty sure my parents did that for me, and if so, I’m really glad they did!
Words: 164
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  okay
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| Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
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5:02 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What's the worst compliment you've ever received?
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“Why, you’re such a tiny little thing! So itsy-bitsy! Just a little baby!”
Carol Anne couldn’t exactly remember who had said that, but she resented it. She thought perhaps that it was some dumb lady in a purple coat that she didn’t even know. What a silly thing to say, Carol Anne had thought, but she had kept quiet. She didn’t know how to quite say the right words yet.
Silly lady. Carol Anne wasn’t THAT little. She was three years old and growing bigger every day! She was already taller than some of the other toddlers and small children in their neighborhood, and she could run and play and do so many things! Mommy and Daddy always said that Carol Anne was really smart and learned things quickly, and would be reading and writing before anybody knew it.
No way was Carol Anne a baby! She was a big girl and wanted to keep growing and growing until she was all grown up!
Words: 164
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  frustrated
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| Wednesday, May 12th, 2010
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5:53 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Vote
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She could remember something about voting – an election either in her country or another one. It was on the news, on the late night news on TV. Carol Anne was only two or three, and had dozed off on her mother’s lap on the couch. Mommy had also dozed off, and her breathing was rhythmic and regular, her heartbeat comforting to her sleeping child.
But something uneasy pricked at Carol Anne’s half-awake mind as she blinked and opened her eyes.
Perhaps it was a dream, or she had heard it somewhere else before and had half-remembered it. But she could recall hearing a vague voice in her head that had said something sinister. It was a man’s voice, and definitely not Daddy’s. It was soft, and persuasive, and trying to sound kind – but there was something in its tone that Carol Anne did not like.
Later, she forgot all about it. Not till two or three years later, when the TV people came, did Carol Anne remember the strange, scary voice as the TV droned on about voting.
Words: 178
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  sleepy
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| Thursday, April 29th, 2010
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5:22 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Are you more childlike or childish?
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That’s a bit of a funny question. You see, I am a child, and I’m going to be one for a few years yet before I become a teenager. But I suppose you mean, am I childlike in the sense that I like fun, cute things and all that, or am I childish in the sense of being all pouty and whiny and annoying?
Well, I certainly hope I’m the first one and not the second! I love dolls and playing and all the usual stuff little girls are supposed to like, and I love pets and cartoons… and I hope I’m not the type who pouts and whines, although sometimes my brother Robbie thinks I’m annoying. But that’s because he’s a boy and bigger than me, so he’s bound to say something like that.
So, yeah, I suppose childlike rather than childish is the best way to describe me. Though sometimes I wish I would just hurry up and grow up!
Words: 162
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  cheerful
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| Monday, April 12th, 2010
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4:56 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: I.O.U.
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I.O.U. It’s usually said when somebody owes somebody else money, but I think it’s got a deeper meaning than that. I think you can owe somebody else for lots of things, even your life. And I think there’s a lot of people I owe for that, and I have to admit it.
Mommy and Daddy, of course. And Dr. Lesh and her helpers. And then there was Taylor… and of course, Gramma Jess, who brought me back from being taken over to the other side. She was an angel for me.
And another angel for me was of course Tangina. She took the evil one, the man whose name I don’t want to say, over to the light, and she did it all out of love for me. She gave her own life to rescue me, to save my soul, and I love her and miss her and am so grateful for what she did!
Words: 155
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  thankful
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| Monday, March 29th, 2010
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5:14 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Revolution
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I remember when I was really tiny, before the TV people came and we couldn’t watch TV anymore, my big sister Dana wanted to watch an old movie being shown on TV called “A Tale of Two Cities” or something like that. It was abut the French Revolution. And Mommy and Daddy let her. It was a classic – the story was by Dickens, I think Daddy told me later.
I was curled up in Mommy’s arms and she must have thought I was asleep, and she must have been too comfortable to get up and carry to me to bed. So she sat there on the couch with me in her lap and the TV was on and she and Daddy and Dana were watching the movie. I think my brother Robbie had to go to bed though. I don’t really remember that part very well.
I can remember there was a very scary part in the film. Where there was a machine to cut people’s heads off called the guillotine. It scared me and I think I must have woken up in Mommy’s arms and screamed because I ended up sleeping the night in Mommy and Daddy’s bed and being comforted.
It’s a scary memory, but I’ve seen scarier things since.
Words: 212
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  scared
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| Wednesday, March 17th, 2010
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5:08 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Mourning
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“Mourning is just extended self-pity.”
- Don Draper, Mad Men.
I suppose it can be self-pity, mourning I mean, if it goes on for too long. It’s only natural to miss someone if they die or if they leave you, and to cry for a bit - but you can’t cry and be sad forever. If someone you love dies, I’m sure they wouldn’t want you to be sad for always. They would want you to be happy and have a good life, and remember the good times you had together, and they’d want you to be able to smile at the memories and not keep on grieving.
Anyway, when someone good and kind dies they go to a better place where it’s beautiful and there’s no more pain and sadness. And if you’re good and kind, when you die you’ll go to that place as well, and you’ll see all your loved ones that went on before you again. I know that’s a fact – not many people do, but I know.
Words: 163
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  blah
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| Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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5:21 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: My Child Self
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Wow, that’s kind of a funny question, asking me if I, as a child, could see myself now, what do I think I would say? Because, really, I am still a child! So the question kind of makes no sense, does it?
But I suppose it could work if you asked me, what would I say if I saw myself now, and I was an even tinier child. Not quite a baby, but old enough to walk and talk and understand some things. That would make sense.
If I was an even littler kid, and I saw myself as I am now, I suppose I would be impressed. Because, wow! I can do all this stuff that really small kids can’t do, like read and play big kids’ games. I’d tell myself that I liked all the cool stuff that “big me” has, and that I couldn’t wait till it was my turn to be that big me!
I’d admit that I found all the stuff that happened with the TV people scary. And that I was worried about… him… coming back.
Words: 182
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: amused
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| Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
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5:44 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Chinese Zodiac
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Mun Note: Presuming the story of the first Poltergeist film is set in 1982 when the movie was made, Carol Anne would be five in that year, making her birth year 1977. The Carol Anne making this comment is obviously the older version after Poltergeist III.
OK, Chinese Zodiac? That’s very interesting. I didn’t know much about it until recently, but I’ve been doing some reading. I should know about anything like that if I am going to be a clairvoyant when I grow up. We need to be smart and well read.
Well, I was apparently born in the Year of the Snake. Years ago I would have said, “Snakes! Ew! Icky!” But actually they are very fascinating animals who can shed their skin and some see them as symbols of healing and renewal.
What I read about people born in the Year of the Snake is this: we’re supposed to be good-tempered, good-looking, good at communicating and gracious, wise and good with money, but we are also supposed to be jealous and suspicious and vain. We hate failing and like to succeed, and prefer to rely on ourselves rather than other people.
I’d like to think I can be good-tempered, and good at communicating, and I hope I’m pretty – but I hope I’m not vain or jealous! I like to be kind to people, and I do ask for help when I need it.
Words: 191
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  bouncy
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| Thursday, February 4th, 2010
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5:26 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What do you command?
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What do I command? Well, to tell you the truth, not very much right now. My dolls, maybe, when no ghosts are possessing them (it’s happened before, more than once, and I’m not kidding)? The dog sometimes, or the goldfish – though it’s pretty silly to try bossing around a goldfish! They’re really cute, and I do love them a lot, but they’re not the smartest animals in the world, trust me.
When you’re a kid, as I still am, it’s pretty much the adults who are in charge. They’re older, smarter, bigger and stronger than most of us kids, and they know best about a lot of things. They’ve learned stuff that children haven’t learned yet. When we grow up, supposedly we’ll be as smart and strong as they are. Then we’ll be able to be in charge of ourselves and maybe our own kids if we have them, until they’re all grown up.
But I think, when I’m an adult, I’ll still prefer helping and being kind to being in command.
Words: 173
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: cheerful
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| Thursday, January 21st, 2010
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5:16 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What does your future look like?
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What does my future look like? Pretty and nice I hope, with no evil ghosts in it!
I know I’m going to grow up, that’s one thing that’s certain. And I know what I’d like to do when I grow up. I want to use my clairvoyant powers to help people. Maybe I’ll be strong enough to help chase away bad ghosts and protect people from them. I certainly hope I can live up to the good example Tangina set. I really want to be like her and do good things like she did. It’s more than just a hope and a dream for me.
And I hope I find love some day. Maybe there will be children for me and maybe there won’t… but I think that I’d be a good mother. I have the best one, after all! Money and other things would be nice to have – but the most important thing in life is love, after all.
Words: 161
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  hopeful
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| Friday, January 15th, 2010
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5:28 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What do you still have from when you were young?
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I don’t have many things left from when I was really little, like when I was a baby. We lost a lot of our stuff when our house got destroyed because the TV people came. Most of the toys, dolls, books and things I have, my family got for me in the past few years. But some of those are getting a bit old now. Mom says I should get rid of some of them, and there are a few things I’ve had to throw away because they’re broken or dirty or far too messed up to play with or be of much use anymore. But the toys I’ve got now I truly do love. Especially the dolls and stuffed toys – they’re so sweet and cute and they’re like real friends!
One toy I’m glad I don’t have any more is my clown doll. I used to like him a lot, but since the TV people came and made him come to life and attack my brother Robbie, I find clown dolls kind of scary. And I don’t seem to have my toy telephone any more – it’s probably just as well.
Words: 192
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: energetic
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| Thursday, December 10th, 2009
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4:51 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic - Answer a previous topic (312 and 21)
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What is good and what is evil?
What’s good and what’s evil? That’s a very easy question to answer.
Good is being kind and nice. Helping people. Cheering them up when they’re sad and trying to make them see that the world is really a nice place and that there isn’t going to be sadness forever. Good is about things like smiles and angels and cuddles and being friendly. Lending a helping hand. Telling the truth, and making people feel good about themselves. It’s wanting other people to be happy too and not just wanting happiness for yourself.
Evil is hurting people and being mean. Lying and killing and stealing and everything that makes people sad. It’s fighting and being selfish and saying nasty things. It’s things like horrible, scary bad ghosts, especially the one I can’t name and don’t want to talk about.
I really, really don’t want to talk about evil. I’d much rather talk and think about good.
Words: 154
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  blank
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| Sunday, November 29th, 2009
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10:42 am - Theatrical Muse Topic: Understanding
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OK, so you want to know what I do when I don’t understand someone? Well, part of being a kid is finding out stuff, right? So I find out stuff about them. I ask them about themselves, what they like, what they enjoy doing, what they think and believe about things. And I watch them. How they act towards and around others. What sort of things they say, and how what they do is the same or different from what they say.
I basically want to like people, OK? And I want them to like me. I want to believe that people are good and kind and they have good hearts. So understanding them is important in getting to know who they are and what they’re about. I don’t want to believe that anybody is a bad person or evil or unkind. I try to see the good in everybody unless they prove beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are evil.
Words: 163
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  confused
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| Friday, November 13th, 2009
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5:40 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Fireworks
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The fireworks were so beautiful!
They were loud and noisy and Carol Anne’s little nose wrinkled at the nasty gunpowder smell, but ooh, they were so pretty! Flowers made of red and gold fire, blooming in the air and fading away to a misty, ashen gray. Streams of shimmering white-hot rain pouring down from a black sky, while strange sounds echoed all around, still ringing in Carol Anne’s ears long after the fireworks display was finished.
Carol Anne knew she would be dreaming happy dreams of the fireworks that night. Even now, when she closed her eyes, she could see the brilliant glow of the many shining flowers in the sky. Drowsily, beginning to doze off in Daddy’s arms, Carol Anne wondered if there were really magic places, somewhere in the world, where the flowers were truly as beautiful as fireworks.
Even if there wasn’t, Carol Anne thought dreamily to herself, she could still imagine it.
Words: 156
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: happy
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| Friday, October 30th, 2009
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5:42 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: How far would you be willing to go to prove a point?
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Carol Anne sighed and pushed the letter away from her.
“I won’t do it. It’s not right.”
Her parents didn’t say a word. They just nodded slowly. They understood why she was doing this.
Even though the family needed the money, they still had their principles. But it was Carol Anne’s future that hung in the balance, and, young though she was, they decided it was fair if she had the final say in what happened.
Fortunately for her parents, she was in total agreement with them.
She had been offered a very large sum of money. Someone had heard about the Freeling family’s experiences and about Carol Anne’s powers, and they were willing to pay her handsomely in order for her to use those powers for their gain.
What this mysterious person and their company were up to was not as horrifying as what Reverend Kane had once done – but the Freelings sensed that not all was right with these people, that what they were doing was not exactly for the greater good.
Carol Anne was willing to turn down that large sum of money to prove her point, and her family admired her for that.
Words: 198
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood:  calm
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| Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
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5:51 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What are you hiding from?
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I think anyone who knows me, knows who I’m hiding from.
Kane, of course. I’m not supposed to say his name, maybe even writing it is dangerous, I don’t know how dangerous it might get…
I hid by trying to forget him, not speaking or thinking of him, but it doesn’t work.
The evil one. Tangina called him the Beast, and that’s the right name for him. A madman while he was alive, a terrifying trapper of souls in the afterlife.
He was an insane preacher – but now, he is simply unspeakable.
My family tried to run away from him, but he found us. It’s me he wants. He calls me an angel, but I’m just a little clairvoyant girl. I want to grow up and help people. I’ll never go with him, never be like him.
I can’t even begin to imagine the terrible things he might do if he gets hold of me. I don’t want to think about it.
Words: 162
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: scared
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| Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
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7:38 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: Answer a question you've never been asked
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My answer is… yes. Of course I am – how would I not be?
Of course I’m scared – I’m terrified!
I’m scared of him coming back.
I’m not supposed to talk about him or even think about him – because that could bring him back.
He’s onto me – I know it. He thinks I’m his angel, there for him.
But I’m not – because he’s evil. He’s done so much harm… and I’m terrified that he’ll do more.
He means death and bad things – and I don’t want any of those. I want him to stay away from me, and away from my family! Forever!
He’s not the holy man he pretended to be when he was alive. He’s exactly what Tangina said he was – the Beast!
I know it’s the clairvoyant powers I have that draw him towards me. But I want to use those powers for good when I grow up. They’re not bad in themselves. He’s the bad one!
Mustn’t even think of him! Don’t want him to come back!
Words: 176
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: scared
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| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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5:49 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: This is...
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This is… beautiful, Carol Anne thought to herself as she twirled around in her new pink tutu, gauzy wings affixed to her back. It’s so much fun!
She was what she had always wanted to be – a ballerina with wings. How she wished she could really fly! Like a fairy, or an angel.
He… had called her an angel. The thought made little Carol Anne shiver and tremble. But she wasn’t even going to think about Reverend Kane any more, from now on. She wanted all that bad stuff to be over.
She was just going to play and enjoy her tutu and wings, and all her other Christmas presents. Just have fun being a little girl.
Mommy had promised Carol Anne real ballet lessons. That would be so wonderful! Even though Carol Anne probably wouldn’t be allowed to wear the fairy wings to her ballet classes.
She could wear them all she wanted on this happy Christmas day, though.
Words: 160
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: happy
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| Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
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5:48 pm - Theatrical Muse Topic: What's that smell?
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Carol Anne wondered what the lovely scent was.
It wasn’t the flowers in the vase on the kitchen table, even though it was a sort of floral smell. Like roses, maybe, pink and white ones in a bouquet. Carol Anne sniffed, and decided the smell was definitely delicate and pretty, a springtime sort of scent. It was a cheering, comforting sort of smell, but Carol Anne didn’t know where it was coming from.
It smelled even better than baby powder, or her freshly washed clothes, or her new crayons. It seemed to waft in and out of the room, as if a gentle presence was watching her, looking in on her to make sure she was all right.
“Who’s there?” Carol Anne called, but of course there was no answer. She was all alone at the kitchen table with her coloring book. Mommy was in the next room, but it couldn’t be Mommy’s perfume because Mommy didn’t wear anything that smelled like that.
Maybe Carol Anne had a guardian angel watching her.
Words: 172
Muse: Carol Anne Freeling
Fandom: Poltergeist
current mood: happy
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