The Big Dipper
You don’t remember the way, but you put your foot on the gas pedal, burning the straight-eight until it purrs on the route to your late uncle’s estate. Look left: your … Read more
Horror
The Shriek
Kids have the craziest imaginations. They’re always making shit up, they think it’s funny. Anything that comes out of a kid’s mouth is probably just some childish game of make-believe. … Read more
You were the Pain so long
Was it a hole in her chest?Diamonds were drowning with radiance floating in the whirl of her darkening eyes.Swollen like an insecure mass, the hollow pupils opened up like a … Read more
Silent Screams in the Darkness
Smoke in the darkness. It filled my nose, the acrid taste dry on my tongue. I blinked, once. Twice. Some distant part of my brain, feeling leagues removed from me, … Read more
How to Die for Love
and so how is it now as I feel my life spiriting away by one’s hands once locked around my heart in love now around my throat in murder how … Read more
White Shoulders
She asked if I’d like to follow her home from the bar for a nightcap. Sure, I said and then asked her if she was the nightcap. She left me … Read more
Fear of Cage
The myth we called of the liars Chasing our destiny Assassinate our dreams We choose thoughts to hid and lips to cease They are mere Without our shadows The glimpse … Read more
Pain as Passion
His eyes were sad in a way that made you think he’d done things he wasn’t proud of. His hair was cut just the tiniest bit uneven. I imagine it … Read more