Archive for Horror
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INK • by Aurelio Rico Lopez III
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I got a tattoo of a hangman’s noose a week ago when I was stone drunk on beer and mojitos. I hate my tattoo, and it knows. It bleeds and itches, and the skin around it has turned an angry red. Last Friday it was an inch higher, and this morning, I swear the noose [...]
Horror, Poems
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RIPPER • by Rosie Sharp 2 Comments
The streets of London are cobbled and grave, where the stench of death clogs the air. Amongst the rats and the night-time sleaze is where my fate lays itself bare. In a game of cat and mouse I am stalked by a man, who cloaks himself in darkness and preys on the weak. In cold-blooded [...]
Horror, Poems
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WAITING • by R. J. Walker Miller 5 Comments
his blood sometimes seizes ice choking in his veins his tongue blistering, bent around his serpent’s bitter pearl those nights yawn and gasp endlessly eyeless lanterns caught between mirrors his thoughts brittle moths brushing flaked wings against shame’s clouded glass and every morning festers reeking putrid with the churning souls of spoiled [...]
Horror, Poems
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SOMETHING UNCHANCY • by Catherine Edmunds
How to Handle Explosives Week competition winner 15 Comments
They murmur, they spit, they curse the sky – but old men retreat and slam the red door rattling its skeletal decoration when fickle rain drifts into morning. The linden tree shivers and angles its twigs away from the solitary cow in the field which grazes in circles of banality beneath the safe hills of [...]
Author Interviews, Horror, Poems
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FIRE • by Richard O’Donnell 5 Comments
I take your breath away consume your screams leave tongue marks on your skin. Yet you believe you can contain me tame me temper my soul. Every time you strike a match fill home and hearth I see a sacrifice. In a flicker you’re mine. Richard O'Donnell‘s works have appeared in Every Day Poets, [...]
Horror
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FEEDING • by Heather Kuehl 5 Comments
vibrant emerald of kelp crimson red of freshly spilt blood mermaid feeds on lost souls Heather Kuehl (pronounced “keel”) is the author of The Sarah Vargas Series and Promises to Keep as well as numerous short stories and poems. When not writing, she can be found outside gardening or chasing after her “CamiMonster.” CALLING ALL WRITERS [...]
Horror
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MOUNTAIN VISIT • by Jack Horne 1 Comment
She wakes to hear the creaking cabin door; And, panic stricken, hears the eerie sound Of shuffling feet approaching. What’s that stench? She lies in bed too scared to turn around. And then she feels a presence by her bed. She thinks her heart will stop; and wet with fear, Imagines vampires, werewolves, ghosts and [...]
Horror
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DEATH MARCH • by K.M. McElhinny 13 Comments
Smooth shoulders lose covering, no more shroud to hide within. Walk through the marble forest. Planks of aged stone, cling to the past. A reminder of pain to revel in. Shaded shapes loosen, stretch as sunlight's lashes blink over soiled mounds. Shed cotton cocoon. Twirl-skirt, a helicopter's graceful descent. Unsheathe worldly clothes, the bitter scent [...]
Horror
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ICY GRIN • by Douglas Pugh 9 Comments
They don't hear the sound -small, insignificant, failing words to define – scratching at my senses as I tread each day upon its top. A tell-tale crack not shaped like the tight smile that I show to the world, a barrier fending away the queries of wellness and fortitude. I have decided that I am [...]
Horror
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WIDE OPEN • by Douglas Pugh 5 Comments
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
