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‘How much for this?’ Sadie asked, handling the purple, green and yellow coloured-glass bead necklace. ‘That, my dear, it’s nothing but a cheap glass trinket of no real value. If you’re looking for jewellery, we have some beautiful jet necklaces or pearls.’ The woman moved across the junk shop with a grace and speed that belied her obvious age as [...]
She heard the music, Danse Macabre, and then she knew, she wasn’t alone… Sadie Gray entered the competition by accident really; she was having coffee alone after a long morning shopping for a new, but cheap, sofa when she heard someone at the next table reading an article from the local paper. When they’d left, she noticed they’d left the [...]
I wasn’t at all certain as to whether or not I should stay at the Borden Bed and Breakfast in Fall River, Mass–scene of the brutal Borden murders. I mean ugh! The axe and the chop! chop! stuff. You know the song: Lizzie Borden took an axe…! Well I stayed there with some friends. They stayed in the other rooms; I however [...]
I knew I was lost as soon as I passed the exit to Stage Road. My sister Gwen had assured me her email directions would lead me to her bridal shower out in the boonies without fail. She was wrong, as usual. Gwen was marrying a chicken farmer. What was she thinking? We were city girls after all. Then again [...]
What Lurks Below What appeared to be room enough for twenty more researchers quickly became a suffocating entombment to Professor Neudahl when their hired guide closed the steel door of the hundred year old elevator shaft and the only light of day disappeared as they descended. She turned and gripped the only loose material she could gather from the form [...]
Louis’ scent preceded his arrival, wafting around me, pulling me close into a seductive, perfumed embrace. Deeply inhaling, I allowed the pleasure of his presence to fill me. “Bonjour, Louis.” His voice caressed my ear the way his scent engulfed my senses. “Ma petite, you knew it was me?” Turning from the window, I graced him with a coy smile. “Of [...]
Blaze’s softer side this week The wind bears down cross wide expanse. On river’s surface ripples dance. So many years have come and gone. Yet still they show when breeze is on. For many years inside they toiled, Their bodies torn and oh so soiled. The owners of the mines were cruel, As workers with their lives did duel. No [...]
She had hopes and dreams. Dreamt all of her childhood away, sitting in the movie theater with her mama watching Jean Harlow. Someday I’ll be a big star. So she moves out to L. A. but her dad doesn’t like her, she can’t please him or maybe she isn’t trying. She starts to drift. Jobs and men and dance clubs, [...]
My mother and father were always out a lot, or at least it seemed that way because I was alone most of the time at night. The most terrible thing about being all alone at night was the mirror that stood like an enormous centurion above the fireplace in my parent’s sitting room. I never liked being alone, nor have [...]
For Alice to stop at a yard sale was a rare event, but there was something that appealed to her about the old house down the street with the estate sale sign in the front yard. She got out of her car and milled with the scant customers there, coming upon the most remarkable phonograph sitting on a mahogany table. [...]
The night enclosed Dash G. Chandler like the grip of an overzealous broad and pulled on him, making him inhale deeper on the gasper he’d just lit, but didn’t really want. His eyes never left the red light that held his car at bay for what seemed like forever. The wipers scraped across the windscreen, joining in the intermittent cacophony [...]
Britney sneezed and the mugger shot her in the chest. She died instantly. It happened late at night, in the alley behind a movie theater. Her father Kevin had parked there so they were on time for the start of the Twilight premier. The nervous mugger approached as soon as they got out of Kevin’s truck. Kevin was prepared to [...]
Dearest Lucy, The days here at home are grave. Mother hasn’t slept for days since you left and Papa just continues to smoke his cigar, ignoring the entire trauma that has played out recently. I fear for my life and yet, there is no one to whom I can find comfort in, only you. William doesn’t visit our family anymore, [...]
Serena was driving too fast for the narrow, winding route across the moor. She was tired and could think only of being tucked up against the cold, autumn night in a warm bed with a cup of hot chocolate. Maurice was already asleep, snoring in the reclining passenger seat beside her. ‘Just like a husband when she needed him,’ she [...]
“Necro… what?” Sadie asked her friend Alf as she sat crossed-legged in her unfurnished house, talking into the mobile phone he’d bought her for her birthday. She didn’t like it and only used it to keep in contact with Alf. His was the only number stored in the memory and if it wasn’t for him, she wouldn’t use the bloody [...]
While I walk on cold sands, thinking – that my life, like red sun, sinking Slowly into foaming waters off the beach at Rosslynne Bay, Has of now lost any reason, like the closing of the season, Grief becomes a fest’ring lesion, memories of Annalais. As the sunset brings the darkness, as the sunset ends the day, Thoughts of her [...]
Four-year-old Amy had become quite a handful for her mother, Emily while the family moved into their new home. Emily, seven months pregnant with twins, quickly lost patience with her daughter. “Amy, go to the playroom and unpack your toys,” said Emily after Amy sang her ABCs for what seemed like the hundredth time. “Okay,” replied Amy. She eagerly left [...]
Ivy climbs up the sides of the house, making it blend into the woods behind . Only a few sections are free of the greenery, exposing the old gray block which has withstood the test of time. Many birds call this place home, as do bats, which frequent the dark, damp section adjoining the area under the eaves in the [...]
The boarded up Bijou Movie Theater was one of his favorite spots for the night. He often curled up there with his boxes and newspaper and wine. He was nearly settled down when a man appeared, dressed in a movie usher uniform. “Come on in, it’s warmer inside.” “I’ll be alright. I’ve got plenty of newspapers.” “There’s good food!” Come [...]
Inside my cold heart is a haunted place a lonely spot devoid of grace. Where the souls of the dead dwell in an ocean of pain, cresting the wave’s swell. Inside my dead heart is a haunted place reflected within in a mortal face. Pictures of all the dead I’ve devoured and all the virgin soul’s I’ve deflowered. [...]
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Someone said there’d been a lighthouse on the rock since before the birth of Christ, although the structure she could see in the distance from her bedroom window was Victorian. Someone said her family had been wreckers too, but she didn’t believe that either. Perhaps she should have, perhaps if she had she would never have moved into the lighthouse [...]
“I’ll tell you my husband’s story,” Enid said from across her kitchen table. “It’s what I read in his journal twenty years ago, his only belonging found at the Seguin Lighthouse after his disappearance.” “Couldn’t you just give me the journal to read, Mrs. Crane?” “I’m afraid not. It was lost a year later, when we moved from Maine to [...]
She leads me to a large bed in a small room. There is not much more space in here for anything other than her bed. She motions for me to lie down , and I do so. What she can show me that I have not already seen is beyond me, but she possesses some kind of knowledge, some kind [...]
” You always get fucked over, don’t you? ” it says, this time distinct enough that I can tell whatever it is is male. ” You never win. you always lose. ”
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