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Mealtime

Hidden away in the catacombs, I lit a little candle. Setting it down on one of the many long crates lying about, I pulled out the meagre meal I'd stolen…

Rough Draft: Disillusioned

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"Death is the illusion we present when we can no longer live," the white bearded lector concluded. "A dream we share of dreamlessness. A dream of never waking." A scattered…

Desert Mountain

Water! A drop of rain. Just the sound of a creek in this desolate mountain. Dust! Dust is all around. I have no air but what's filled with this swirling…

An Interruption

I sat in my cell, cold and tired. The little straw cot had offered me no rest nor warmth, and I had returned to my writing desk. It had been…

Scarlet

Message: The vampires are dead. I mean, I know they're dead, but they're dead dead, like, not alive or undead. Just dead. Some have returned to the dust, others to…

Read: The Madness of Reality

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Please Read:The Madness of Reality Excerpt: I was expecting some Lovecraftian monstrosity that would burn my mind like it had Lance's, or, I had wondered, maybe the terror would be…

Haunted Hanging

They hung him on a Saturday,and by that ev'ning filled his grave.In potter's field his body lay.For him no tongue a prayer gave. But in that night new terrors crept.A…

Between

And the rising sun drove away my dark dreams. As the day strengthened itself, the desert grew warm. The stars went away. Noon came, and my flesh burned. Trudging through…

A Paperback!

Hey Everyone, There's a collection of Halloween short stories just published, and yours truly is featured. This is a first for me. Before this, my work has only been found…

Dragon Drabble

The dragon was small, so we put it in a bottle, put the bottle on the shelf, and shut the door. We left the little dragon in darkness, alone on…