Archive for Horror
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WIDE OPEN • by Douglas Pugh
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In the desert twisted in shimmers and the scratch of hoarse throated denial you expected to find peace and solitude crammed in the awkward grasp of a tired yucca but there was no burning bush of beauty stripped down raw to the basic simplicities of life there was no manna cushioning the soft footfall of [...]
Horror
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TASTING DEATH • by Guy Belleranti 2 Comments
They dig out of rotting coffins spread into the night searching for sustenance from the living. Silent stalkers, the bones they leave behind terrify an unprepared world. But don’t you worry there’s nothing to fear… once you are one of them. Guy Belleranti has published short stories and poetry in many genres including mystery and [...]
Horror
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SENSITIVITY • by Aurelio Rico Lopez III 6 Comments
I stare out my bedroom window on the second floor. The night is cold, the true nature of the world. I respect the night’s brutal honesty. Below, beyond the lawn, the lamp post casts a pale yellow island on the dark street. Like a spotlight. I stare at the gun in my hand and start toward the [...]
Horror
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THE PASSENGER • by by Douglas Pugh 11 Comments
cruising that glinted curve wicked shimmer in the sun as I turn am I the niceness with an edge or the edge wrapped in niceness maybe I see myself a soft leather sheath battered as I dangle, a passenger carrying razors gift but shielding you all and in the night the glitter beneath [...]
Horror
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LULLA-BA • by Josephine Orta 8 Comments
Rock a banana On a green stalk When the wind blows They sway and they rock When the bough breaks Tarantulas fall Let’s move baby’s cradle Away from the wall Josephine Orta lives in San Antonio, TX with her husband and medicine cat Peep. She does website technical support during the [...]
Horror, Humour/Satire
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CARS LEFT ABANDONED ON FRIDAY NIGHT • by Barry Napier 6 Comments
Saturday morning, your head sways with the steering wheel; the highway polarized as you ponder the mystery of scattered cars pulled to the side of the road, flags of surrender tucked into doors and windows waiting to be towed, forgotten in the Saturday morning sun. Friday night, you observed those stranded motorists, probably drunk or [...]
Horror
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DEMON DADDIES • by Brian Barnett 11 Comments
Babies born with horns Mothers screaming at fathers Man, that must have hurt Brian Barnett lives with his wife and son in Frankfort, Kentucky. To date, he has published over forty-five stories since he began publishing in November 2008. He has been published by MicroHorror.com, Flashes [...]
Horror
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THE NAMING OF THE BEAST • by Douglas C. Pugh 6 Comments
Pick and writhe, probe and poke wriggle, with no surcease allowing only enough relief that I may noose my neck step closer to that crumble edged fall from the cliff of confidence where you wait I told you so smirk plastered broad across that gentle pink face lips sealing those gnawing teeth from sight [...]
Horror
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EVERYTHING I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT VAMPIRES • by Michael D. Turner 6 Comments
The modern vampire does not reek of a grave Somewhere the rats have left his ship His coffin has all the finality of a Lay-Z-Boy TM God is dead and the vampire is a sex symbol The perfect boy friend, the perfect girlfriend Symbolic submission with no consequences But death . . . and [...]
Horror
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WICCAN WIND CHANT • by Nathalie Boisard-Beudin 4 Comments
Go, go, go, Widdershins around the kirk Once, twice, thrice if we must. Listen to the organs blare inside Holy caterwauling An attempt to block the winds The tempests raging at the door. But we go, go, go, Widdershins around the kirk Once, twice, or thrice as we must For as long as it will [...]
Horror
