Category: SFW

• 19/05/2024

  OF THE WATERS

  ENTRY FOR: SENTINEL CREATIVES – NORDIC HORROR 2024 “Death by drowning!” The cry went up as sailors carried their overboard mate ashore. The inland sea claimed many; many blamed the merfolk. Not once did I see anything but water. Water… our home was surrounded by it. Plagued by it. Lakes and rivers, bogs and marshes.…
• 07/05/2022

  ANOTHER DEATH BY WATER

  ENTRY FOR: LOVE THE WORDS 2022 Born by water – a happy Victorian facade Seaside resorts – buried under decades of seagull guano Harbouring visions – steel ruins crumbling into the cold North Sea A life less lived – fluid and fleeting and frustratingly constrained The Merchant Navy – escape, escape, escape… Too young, too…
• 17/04/2022

  HOPEFULLY MAKING THE BANAL BEAUTIFUL

  Lying quite prone, prostrate against a bed of brittle eider-down, ever plucked at by a spectral querysome niggling wind, tossing sepia hair hither and thither in its wake. His eyes staring languidly up, as if on their own accord, through high arching bald winter branches of a weeping willow near the banks of Scamhurst lake.…
• 10/04/2022

  INCEPT OF A NEWBORN

  THE TRAIN IS NOW IN THE STATION The gilt wrought iron of mechanical filigree pulsed and gyrated ever slower until, gasping for friction on the well-used rails, motion became painfully slow; only the most minute of movement ebbing the giant metal beast along the remaining track of the station. Land steamers were a common sight,…
• 03/04/2022

  A SOLDERED VIEW

  A TALE OF THE DARK DAYS LOST AND THE WISDOM GAINED The wires stuck in his throat like coal dust. The feeding tube performing its task diligently; with the cold methodical ability, inherent of it’s class. It gauged his taut, racked frame meticulously with all that would ever be required to perpetuate his living slumber…
• 20/03/2022

  BROWN COAT

  AND BLESSED BE, ALL YOU MERRY PEOPLE! In a most finite and hypoxic moment, the disbelief wore off. Breathing more steadily, Sade propped himself against one of the perfectly memorised supports in the dark room. “Oh god! Oh god! Oh god! I’m going to have to go out!” Mumbling curses and sobs to himself, pitifully,…
• 17/03/2022

  FAITO HASEO! FIGHT LEMONS!

  

  REQUEST BY – THE PAIN YOU FEELCOVER IMAGE BY – AZVISIOFEATURING – LEMONS AND HASEO Crystalline beads of sweat already glistened upon the combatants’ skin. Ragged breaths, heaving chests, and the steam of over exerted bodies rose above all. Although their flesh was failing, their spirits would not – could not – falter. A desperate…
• 13/03/2022

  THE MERCY OF THE MIRTH FIELDS

  Cad sat at the foot of the table – an ebony obelisk on four askew miniature doppelgänger that could humbly accommodate a hearty baker’s dozen with ease – in solemn waiting for the guests to arrive. Servants would greet and attend to each in turn and relieve them of their excess outerwear before showing them…
• 06/03/2022

  THE CORONARY STRING

  The gilded frame in its entirety, other than flecks here and there; lost to weathering and the whim of father time, hanging banal in the pearlescent glare of a thin moonstone inlay; found naught but limited appraisal by all but one eye that settled upon it. The owner of said eye, conveniently, also belonged to…
• 27/02/2022

  WHO LIVES?

  WHO REALLY DOES? The light flitted, encapsulated in the small circle of the window, floor by floor, up and over my face – much like self-illuminating halos that appeared, in my eyes, to sap the pallor from my cheeks, bit by bit, and send it skyward, into the abyss, via the cap of my brain-pan.…
• 20/02/2022

  IN FINITE SEPARATION

  A TALE OF A BANDAGE AND A COLLAPSED LUNG “To put it bluntly…” …gailed out of the streaming voice of Basin through a muted sigh, “To put it as tactless, yet benign, as I can muster…” …stuttering on the last words out of exacerbation, “You aren’t half a cad sometimes, Gedral!” Gedral lay unmoved by…