A Gothic Stroll [Version 2]
I remind myself it’s not even fifty yards. My mother’s mantra about everyone else being equally insecure bounces from one side of my brain to the other before…
The Lady Ashford Mystery
Fog clung to the pavement like some amorphous entity. The city was known for its gray skies. Flickering lamplights barely penetrated the night’s gloom. Due to…
Life in Death (cont.)
(cont). He stepped outside the dorr of his antique home. The light danced off the dew with such subtlty that only a trained eye could appreciate. Why on the…
Life in Death
It was the peak of his life, every piece was falling into place that created amazing memories for him to remember for the rest of his life. Their was life in…
She'll Call
Even though I put the cell phone in the drawer with the garlic, she’ll call. Even though I’ve sprinkled the phone with the ashes of the dead at midnight in the…
Mama
Mama stood out there in the back lot long after all the others had left. Tears rolled down her cheeks and froze on her tattered collar. She’d never had a child…
Skin Deep
It looked beautiful, that was part of the trap. I kept running down the corridor, I heard it ended in an ancient staircase. it was connected to a system of…
Myth III: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch
The moon hurts, she licks her lips when she finishes every sentence, a sharp pain at the crown of the head. The moon has entered my window, her skin is white…
Climbing Stairs In Combat Boots
I slowly, carefully climbed the stairs up to my parents’ appartment, trying not to trip over the long laces of my black combat boots. I could hear babies…
The Dime Museum
Were it not for the time and the place perhaps a happier life could have been conceived, but it could never be. Born years ago into a family that was…