The Discovery   Thin wisps of clouds rush past the moon, And cold winds shake the failing...

The clutching bonesmakes the rattling soundand that grim reaper makes hiseerie presencefelt around...

I looked upon a child playing One early morning, In the sand, he crawled Building his world, There...

You’d expect Bashomight leak from my pen tonight;Instead I bleed…Poe.

You read from the book.That ancient, accursed grimoire;that diabolic tome with the secrets oftime,...

Asylum  Somber, snow-covered vales. Windless calm. Winter shadows sleep soundly on the frozen...

As is My Custom    Last night, as I lay in bed, tucked in much too tightly as is my mother’s...

Playing alone in flowered fields among brightly coloredbutterflies and daffodils, her childish...

My Fear    Terrifying specters writhed all around me I did not run or call for help Their...

Am I Pretty?    She prowls the streets Her mask hiding The horrible truth. Her prized...

Madness  They told me he was mad when they took him And locked him up away somewhere for good, And...

Liquid Darkness A darkness immune to light To the stabbing beams of a torch Black and glistening...

Untitled    zombie plague interviewing babysitters again

Untitled As if a rope, half bone half pulled from your chest the way this dead branch tells you...

They send one every year or so And I’ve not yet made light work of him Or her Smashing them with a...

His life and mine beganIn the very same month and yearThey never intersectedOr truthfully even...

It is the stuff of sleepless nights,imagining the end of the world, or ratherthe end of...

The road scrawls alongside the Steak House like the mark from a number two pencil— its thin,...

those teeth gnawing on meclamping down on my guts, my skull, soul -sole occupant of this bone...

she’s building this house of shell from the inside, building it she’s washing the surface wiping...

The pull of the chainsaw Whirr of the sawmill blade Boot click against spade edge Suck of red clay...

Please come inChild’s in the ovenWould thou like a drink ofHemlock tea?Do sit down How I...

Stalking psychotic,fascinated saboteurunder such grand illusion.In stealthy pursuit,bewitched,...

A truck full of spiders backs up to my front door. None of them speaks French, but one is an...

Dark angels tread death’s stony pathfollowing in the bloody footmarksof anguished soulssilently...

I’ve spilled blood. I’ve carved flesh.Never questioned why. Until now. People talk about a...

I lick the tip of my fingers watching that water boil, and the oil as it starts to simmer....

The air is stillBut for the soundOf beating wingsAnd a voice that carriesA whispered chant. I look...

after Lynne Knight’s, THE SEVERING I sit on an antique chairwith wooden spindle legs, as I read...

Playground Secrets by Susan Gentry   Secrets hide in playgrounds Tall shadows for concealing...

A little girl stands by the foot of my bedblood dripping on my floor from the holes in her headthe...

Branches snap— A whisper of a shadow Darting from the corner Of my unseeing eye. I freeze in place...

curses in their stammers far side of Grayson’s hill as up, then down, my hammerwrought its...

“Solamen miseris socios habuisse doloris.” [It is a solace of the wretched to have companions in...

Rubbish strewn boneyardNeglected family plotFallen fiancé Abandoned farmhouseWebs span shattered...

You did not know at first You were dead. Once you Understood the finality of your position You...

I will take you down there to show youBut we must take careSee how deep is this cavernSee how it...