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A Quiet Rest

8 Nov 20234 Nov 2023

The dream grows so faint now, and the obsidian spire, so like a darkened gash, rises in the sky, a starless darkness, and the silence of this pointed rock chills…

A Shape in the Fog

7 Nov 20234 Nov 2023

What is that shape within the fog? What distant colors does she raise? A nation, long forgotten now, This ship her only grave. Her ragged crew, in ragged dress, the…

Life Update: Short Stories

Well, I've caught something of a cold over the weekend. Feel fairly miserable and disjointed. Can't hold my thoughts together. Trying to write is hard; my reserves of self-control are…

Imperfect Passing

I've felt no greater terror in my life than when those cold, dead fingers gripped my shoulder. I had less warning than some. I did not know I was so…

All the Truth

"The trouble is," he sneered, "that no one really cares. It's not their lives, or their homes. Ours is just a story for them to have a brief catharsis over.…

Poem: Vampire Lover

31 Oct 202330 Oct 2023

Please Read: Vampire Lover Don't wake the dead tonight don't whisper in their ear don't raise this awful fright don't play around with fear Just let the past lie down…

The End of a Dream

I've been thinking about a dream I had on the 16th. The part that really stuck with me was the end where I was looking through a glass as my…

My Son

Try not to stare into the sun, young man, the glory and the beauty of the sun. Heaven's too hot, your eyes will burn, and you will lose your way.…

For the Birds

The air was tainted with a green mist that hung in patches of small, congealing clouds, some above my head, some down at my feet, and everywhere in between. Where…

The Dead Go Walking in the Night

The dead go walking in the nightThe dead were walking in my sightThe dead go strolling through the parkThe dead went strolling after dark And I am mad or drunk…