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
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
ADDICT
I don’t know exactly how long I’ve been out here. He comes for me every night, waiting to feed from me like I imagine it does the others. It doesn’t matter where I hide, he finds me eventually. He told me we all have our own unique scent signature, he Continue Reading
NewSkin
How many of us truly notice ads for new beauty products anymore? It seems that like toothpaste, a new and improved formula using an obscure substance is released every other week, with promises to revitalise youth and reduce wrinkles etc. My boyfriend, being the lovable but slightly-obsessed-with-his-appearance-fellow that he is, Continue Reading