Ghost Stories
We used to believe in ghosts. Somehow a ring of firelight makes everything outside it even darker. We didn’t know what lurked in the woods beyond, and yet…
Working Through The Night
Leon stormed back to his desk. Seeing the evil unfold before him today pushed him over the edge. The stack of invoices on his desk would have to wait. He spent…
Odio
It had never gotten this bad. The Odio was something I lived with, something I put up with. Sure, it would bother me from time to time, rasping words of…
From Sea to Shining Sea Part 2
Johnny stared at the woman. She stared back. He could see the bone in her face- every single one of them. He was glued to the floor. He could not move a muscle…
CRASHING HARDRIVES-Ian-PART 2 FINAL
Robots dont like meat bags But they do prefer their brains To operate their systems Once their emotions are exchanged For steel and silicon Wires and bolts…
CRASHING HARDRIVES-Ian-PART 1
The hills are alive With power seeking robots On a mission to wipe out independent thought Citizens are screaming Waving their hands in rythem To metal…
En Passant
The battle had raged on for longer than either side had hoped. Dark forces had overtaken the holy and there were but a few righteous ones left. With his queen…
The Same Story
Every small child knows the tale; there’s a pantomime, a film, a puppet show. Parents read it out of storybooks when the little ones are tucked up in bed…
Witchy
The miserable old bound crone. Her eyes are great evil coruscating rubies. He, She, and It, her trio of incompetent, disparate, yet well-meaning abductors…
Try and stop me!
“Susan dear, this is the fourteenth school you have gone to this year, please try and like the students. There is nothing to fear, no one really wants to hurt…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (The End)
(cont.) Where each fingertip prickles And pickles in bleach Quills fill their meat And they’re thrown on the molten beach of deceit Sizzling to a dashing dust…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (2)
(Cont.) In cohesion With arms and lead in their guns Who murder daughters and sons-- On the run Until they run red Are stunned and then dead The innocent are…
Fighting For Peace is Like F-ing For Virginity (1)
Spacious Tall and tenacious Places Crawl with anxious Audacious young faces Who’ve acquired a taste For what their superior hates They’re told their life is a…
The Horrifying Truth.
Into an empty room I stared. Four walls. One bed. One girl. A long white box, imprisoning me inside its own hell. Often she’d come to me. Piercing my innocent…
The Woods
I Don’t Know How Long I’ve Been Standing Here, Alone In The Dark, Alone In The Woods. I Can Feel His Presence; He Would Soon Do What I Am Dreading. But I Am…
Chased
Despair! The thought crossed her mind wordlessly. The monsters were chasing her again. Run away! Hide! She reached with her senses, trying to find…
Check
Gradually, a thick smoke rose and engulfed the playing field, severing the line of sight between the Demon and I. When it eventually cleared, hideous black and…
On Edge
I felt the eyes boring in to the side of my head, trying to decide how confident I really was, but I’d already moved to look upon her again, mixing my emotions…
Chess
As promised, darkness swept over the room as he appeared. He’d said every human in the room but me would die, so that we could be alone. So I was ready. I was…
Drink of the Devil
Baiting traps Satan laps The blood of souls Gushing from bullet holes.