To Feel Beneath
With neither rhyme nor reason, Barker awoke. Pitiable attempts to will himself back to sleep met stiff resistence from something deeper, more primal. A huff…
Hunt.
I have watched my friends and loved ones die over the course of the last three days. Before now, I might have been tempted to call their killer a madman. He’d…
Queen
It was the first time I killed a man. I had thought that I had killed before, but thinking and knowing are two different things. This time, when I looked into…
A Thousand Times
It was the first time I killed a man. Almost ritualistic, like when dad hands you your first beer. It doesn’t taste good. It’s bitter. You vomit a bit in the…
Running
My feet pound against the sidewalk. My hearts beating fast. someones coming, closer by the second. Escape is hopeless i`ll never get away......... Not from…
Questions
” Let me see your hands, nice and easy now guy.” I growl from behind my ski goggles. The man starts violently and whips around with his hands in the air. I can…
Love Her, Kill her
“I love her.” “Perfect. Kill her.” I squeeze her hand, one of those squeezes that gets me a timid glance and smile. The insistency in his stare burns behind…
A Sinister Smile
It had been one week since his last kill; his hunger was growing stronger. The anxiety he felt from laying dormant and not allowing his inner cannibalistic…
Mary's little lamb
Mary had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow, until it stained a deep blood red, the night she shot her bow. For Mary hated being followed, by her…
Can He?
His hand tremmbled as he aimed the gun. He didn’t know if he could do it. He had spent his entire life searching for the leader, and now he had found him…
It's Only Just Begun
I picked at the sea foam green scales now appearing on my forearm. Immortality is only one unsuspecting imbecile away. If only she could show up faster. Even…
Reverse. (2/2)
“You killed him, you heartless bastard!” she lets out. More of a cry, less of a yell. She stops running and sees him over the body, crowbar in hand. She…
Reverse. (1/2)
Her last breath. Her eyes open as a stream of red flows into a her in her heart. “Why?” she asks to a man not listening before her limp body rises to a…
To Kill A Liar
She orders a vodka tonic instead and sifts through the weight of his words. She catches his bottom lip quiver slightly and she fixes her stare on him with a…
'Till Death
Darren never heard the sound of the shot as it rang out from the cold pistol held in his wife’s trembling hands. He never heard the sound of the shell dropping…
Sniper
It’s strange. You see it when you’re watching TV, you do it when your playing video games and even through six months of boot camp and basic training I never…
Purpose.
Short as a forearm or long as a man. Smooth, shiny, black, rusted, wavy or warped. Straight or curved, edged or serrated. Some are easier to wield, some more…
Would it Kill You?
Would it kill you... to say those three words to me, to tell me I’m beautiful, to tell me you can’t live without me? Would it kill you... to make an effort, to…
Love Me Dead
**Found in my notebook from a time when Emily and I were dating and not living together. I still love you, Em. Always will.** It’s called insomnia. I get it…
Lead Foot
Foot falls again, and The car speeds up. Cold, dark night. I see his blurred outline On this highway horizon. I sense his fear. He runs faster, but He is no…