13 Days …

Sup morsels of foment

The food is strange here — the blood doesn’t flow freely as his teeth sink into the flesh. The innards tossed at him in chunks. Nothing is…

Hush, old woman, hush. The child is coming fast as she can. You worry at her like an old dog, and give her no peace at all.

Conceived with the apple…A Prompt for 13 Days of Dark & Weird

The chitter of beetles in shadow, whose glittering shells sweep the dim; their undulant tide is the darkness —  a writhing that heralds…

A writing prompt for 13 Days of Dark & Weird

A writing prompt for 13 Days of Dark & Weird

A collection of prompts for 13 Days of Dark & Weird

Dear Mythra,

Grimesy’s awake. That bloke down there, razzing the young woman opposite our church, got his attention.

This hand I call mine pours the wine,

Un-scroll to understand in sand, feeling bottled up and buoyant Words will fail you

Christmas morning. A crime scene in chaos. Tenace couldn’t imagine a worse way to end his year. A couch covered in children’s tears, the…

Curator’s Commentary: It has been a long-held truth that the famous Christmas-time poem, A Visit from St. Nicholas (better known in common…

“It would be like not breathing, you see,” Chloe intoned drily from the drapes by the window. “I’ve spent a great deal of this life not…

A tale for naughty children

If only I could escape winter’s numbing touch — fade beneath the snow unnoticed, like a perennial awaiting Spring — aching to feel the…

A poem about seeking divinity on earth