The Darker Realms
This blog is about the darker realms, the places where nightmares and dreams lurk below conscious thought. Join me in a journey into the night.
Author Archives: Helen
Hands
After the deluge all I could remember were those last moments, and the hands. The hands reaching out from the multitudes falling, grasping, hurtling into the other place, the void. They opened that first portal despite all the warnings. Curiosity … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged black hole, death, fear, Horror, portals, quantum physics, void
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They’re Here
“They’re here mom” “What’s that dear? Look at the canyon, how grand it is! And the valley below! Stop fidgeting!” “But no mom, they’re here!” “My skirt wasn’t made for you to pull apart son! Can’t you just take in … Continue reading
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Tagged aliens, children, humour, invasion, parents, spaceships
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Climbing
I’m climbing beloved, answering your call. In the atmosphere so thick, so star strewn, so vast, I climb. Up the spiral staircase I ascend, answering your call. Am I going up or down, I wonder, for which is which in … Continue reading
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Tagged ascent, belief, descent, dreamscape, knowledge, library
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God’s Face
On his sixteenth birthday they took him to the special church. There, they said, he would undergo the trials and the tortures that would cleanse him, redeem him and make him worthy. Worthy to look upon it, to see it, … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, delusion, desire, faith, fever, god, ritual, torture
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Butterfly
Your chrysalis becomes you Little would be butterfly Entrapment as transition To live you first must die And you will know the truth By and by You struggle in the confines Such impatience butterfly! You argue with your betters You’re … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged butterfly, chrysalis, entrapment, mind control, ritual, transformation
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Possessed
She did not know she was possessed for the longest time. No-one did. She didn’t act like someone possessed. Not like in the movies anyway. She didn’t talk in other languages or curse people. She didn’t writhe on a dirty … Continue reading
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Tagged belief, demonic, occult, possession, quantum physics, science
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Mannequin
At the shop we wait to be fitted. Since the singularity we all look the same at first. All bland, featureless, still, like those old mannequins you see in storybooks of the past. This has its advantages. Also like those … Continue reading
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Tagged conformity, future, Horror, individuality, singularity
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The End
The end, they say, came with fire and fury. Above us the sky became a golden war field, beautiful and dread. Power beyond understanding, likened only to the gods, but formed from science and with the wicked determination of mankind. … Continue reading
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Tagged afterlife, apocalypse, armageddon, blindness, choice, death, limbo, sins, the end
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Baphomet
His father told him of the Templar god. “Many men died for this idol,” he said. “Dignified, heroic, in torture and pain.” “And why would men die for an idol?” he asked, his eyes wide as he gazed at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Baphomet, belief, movies, ritual, sacrifice, television, Templar
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Blood Bride
Pale Beauty The Blood Bride Solemn vows All the fear Held deep inside Waiting patient Wedding bells Softly ring Taking her Down to hell Sacrifice Every year One will fall At your feet Trembling here Pale beauty The Blood Bride … Continue reading
The Darker Realms 