Hi, all! I enjoy writing horror, both prose and poetry. Working on my prose at the moment. Thank you for reading!
Hi, all! I enjoy writing horror, both prose and poetry. Working on my prose at the moment. Thank you for reading!
Our car is at a standstill on the pavement. Headlights can be seen from behind us, but they are slowly dimming. We are unsure of how far back they are, or if there is anyone else in front of us, because of the water streaming from the sky like tears off a betrayed lover’s face. If we had a sunroof, we might be able to look up and see chaos, but instead, we can peer through the windows on the truck...
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My nest is my safe space, yet I know I must fly. Things that don’t grow, die, my masters keep reminding me. But the first time I tried to step off, I breathed myself into a panic. Down there - so many moving people, so many hard surfaces. Why not stay in the coziness of what I know, just a little longer?
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And again, today I woke up with a purpose. A renewed sense of self. I would leave - I w...
I hadn’t had a spontaneous adventure since childhood. The voice hadn’t been meant for me, but I heard it all the same, and I saw the hand reaching out towards me. I looked behind me but no one else was there. With a final sigh, I took the hand and followed.
The night was too dark to see exactly who I was following, but it appeared to be a middle-aged man with a coat on, hood up, and a spark in ...
Our farm was on a wide spread of land, many acres, but only a few people left with a few animals to tend to. The cabins and barns had been there for hundreds of years, it was said and believed, and still stood sturdy. I remember hearing the stories of our grandfathers and grandmothers and how they had tilled these very fields, admiring the trees that stretched for miles in the distance. As a child...
“I can take you there,” he told me after looking me up and down. As if he had to ensure I was worthy of such a place first. “But it’s unlike anywhere you’ve ever been before. Think of the last time you looked up at the moon. Know that color? Know the spots of that orb? And how sometimes it shines down onto a lamp-post, or a sidewalk? Think of how that color, that exact color would interact with a ...
“I got you. Don’t worry.”
My hands were clenched around his, veins surging thickly from under my skin with the effort. He swung off the face of the cliff, feet kicking for a foothold and finding none. I was on my belly. Beneath us spread a wide expanse of stone and desert floor. It would have been beautiful if it wasn’t hundreds of feet down.
“Can you pull me up?” He muttered through gritted te...
The music is alive, making the air quiver with bass beats and copper strings. It pulsates, like blood through a vein, in the space above you. You can feel that flow in your arms, a tingle that permeates your skin and slithers to your legs and toes. From the stage, the artists look down on the gathered crowd, smiling, engaged, commanding. There are hundreds of people there, standing shoulder to sho...
He’d wanted me to hunt with him, to go into the forests with a rifle and an axe, and look for something innocent to murder. That was when I lost interest, when he took me to his family’s mountain lodge and showed me the peaked roof, decorated with antlers. He was so proud of them, like a little boy at show and tell. It made me sick. I could feel the heaviness of the air, of the spirits that had be...
I bought him flowers again. Brought them to his work. He told me he was too busy to see me, in a meeting or something like that, and wouldn’t come out to get them. So I left the at the counter with a nice enough receptionist. But when I left, I sensed that he was already out of that “meeting”. When he came home, I had to ask him if he liked the flowers. He said yes and didn’t even thank me. He did...
I watched him leave the store. The new town was fine enough, but it was boring for someone like me - from the city, used to fine food, exciting adventures. But the move was necessary. Even here, though, I noticed people starting to take notice of me already. I was new and the town was small enough that everyone seemed to want to know me. I was cornered in grocery stores, hardware stores, and even ...