Writing Gallery
Gothic Brooding
/Dense, dark, suspicion ruminations.
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…that tumble darkly, in complex re-arrangements, for days on end, sometimes for years. It’s not the sort of thinking anyone chooses. It’s more likely a condition, similar to a birthmark; a life-long mark that those inflicted would like…
By K. L. Shipley
Read MoreAn Accident
/…strong, wonderful hands.
"I might amputate to save you," the doctor said.
"Not my hand!" our friend cried.
"But it's a matter of your…
By Norbert Kovacs
Read MoreBeing the Blues
/…from damp rumpled sheets
Sleep won and lost in snatches
Room suffused with gray
Teetering between night…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreBoredom and Melancholy
/How can anyone be bored or melancholy?
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…often travel hand-in-hand. Two sour friends whose only consolation is each other. I’ve never been bored or melancholy. I can’t imagine it. They’re so many things to think about and do. The real problem is too…
By K. L. Shiplley
Read MoreThe Skin Walker
/…the skin walker
assemble in cannibal covens
feast on the blood like vampire
take the soul from a victims…
By Emmatobs
Read MoreThe Clown
/She enters an antiques store and wants to buy a painting of a clown. The old proprietor reveals why she can't buy it.
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…started looking at the walls. She had enough furniture, but she needed something on the walls of her apartment in downtown Ashleyville, Ohio. She walked to the rear of the small, crowded store and…
By Anita G. Gorman
Read MoreTrapped In A Moment
/…depicts a scene that replays in one's mind after…
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…moves in slow motion,
tears flow from her welled up eyes,
nothing but emptiness surrounds…
By Brenda Arledge
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