Halloween may be over, but that doesn’t mean we should stop reading and writing creepy fiction! Here’s a piece of horror flash fiction about a child screaming in the woods and a scary encounter. It’s about 630 words and has an estimated reading time of 2 and half minutes. Let me know what you think!
Continue reading “Hush, Little Baby (flash fiction)”
A blazing light in the woods
From where did it come?
Light speed it easily exceeds
Then I heard a loud thump
From where did it come?
This brilliant, mysterious light
Then I heard a loud thump
Everything was bathed in white
Here’s a piece of fantasy flash fiction about a magical woods and environmental destruction. It’s about 600 words and has an estimated reading time of 2 and a half minutes. Let me know what you think!
Continue reading “The Woods of Wesbour (flash fiction)”
Humans travel in our woodlands
Full of fairies, creatures of magic
We, creatures, understand
Our powers are fantastic
Deep in the woods at night
I came upon an awful sight
a corpse, ashen and stiff
it was quite a terrible fright
The body was by the cliff
and suddenly it did shift
I screamed, ran like hell
my legs moved very swift
Lost in the deep woods
Night began to fall quickly
Shivering in cold
Until the fairy woman
Brought me back home, safe and sound
Continue reading “The Fairy Woman (a tanka)”
Traveling through America, in search of the Shrine
you know the one, mister, the place that encapsulates
our nation’s fears, dreams, triumphs + loathing –
some say the shrine is a shopping mall
Mother Church of Consumerism
but you know better
Continue reading “American Shrine (a poem)”
It’s been so long since I’ve
walked in these woods,
surrounded by trees
on a humid summer night.
It’s dusk and tree cover provides
shade on the trails, but we still
huff, puff with each mile.
Continue reading “In the Woods (a poem)”
