NB: These are based on a set of recurring dreams experienced over the last ten years. FIRST SEQUENCE (PURGATORY) The first sequence unfolds in a mist veiled field at dusk. The field is endless, I can’t see the gates clearly but I know they’re there. This place isn’t meant to Continue Reading
SHOTGUN BUTTERFLY
It cut through the airA knife had never been so sharp.Nobody saw it comingThey were too busy milling around in the light. There was a crater in the groundBlown into the earth with fire and sunderBrittle and harsh under the toesA tree sat there growing. It gets you when you’re Continue Reading
OAK III: Red Flowers & Bone
Cut to the bone. The Earth around The Oak was tangled with slender vines tipped with jagged red flowers. The buds pushed themselves up several inches above the soil, opening slowly with tendrils of sap glistening and dripping down the vines. The sap’s bioluminescence glowed a soft orange in the Continue Reading
The Gory Hole
This was written as part of a writing challenge on another website, but since it’s horror, I’m posting it here too. Three lads. Early twenties. All perpetually horny and testosterone fuelled. One text message, so easily led. A Whatsapp group several seconds later. “I just got a text from Mike Continue Reading
OAK II
Overwhelming sadness Those coiled whispers softly woven Promises unending Torn away Savaged Slipped away as dust to the weeds.
OAK
She was broken with shame in a way that was irreparable. Wandering into the woodlands over the moors near home, she found a gigantic Oak tree set deep in the Earth, surrounded by thick moss that hadn’t felt human touch for a long time. The air was thick and heavy Continue Reading
Text Me When You’re Dead
The first message came through at 00:42. I wasn’t one of those people who put their phone on silent or vibrate only at night. I was so accustomed to the various chimes and notifications that I could sleep through the majority of them. Most of the time folks used stuff Continue Reading
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Remember What it felt like When you clawed out my light And held me under Until I d r o w n e d Over and over Before you let go and Fed me to the wolves Who set fire to my bones R e m e m b e Continue Reading
WAKE UP
I was perfectly capable of waking up, it’s just I didn’t want to. I was laid there in a hospital bed listening to them all suffer and really enjoyed it. The best thing about all of it, was that I was somehow able to plant horrible little ideas in their heads, to Continue Reading
SNAILS II
Part one. My brother went missing two months ago. I got a phone call from the hospital to tell me to come because he was in bad shape, but when I got there, he was gone. Nobody would tell me anything. I was heavied out of the hospital by security, Continue Reading