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
Writing
Writing to order these days, he thought. Last week it was comedy, this week horror. Dialling it in. Somewhere along the way he’d lost his spark. When was that? The endless revisions to fit varying tastes? The dumbing down of … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged creativity, dark magic, hope, Horror, horror flash fiction, keyboard, magic, publishing, soul, writing
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Meticulous
I may be a murderer, but I am meticulous. We all have our callings, and this – the slicing and dicing and curing of human meat – is mine. I make it an art work, a vocation. I am careful … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged dark, death, Horror, horror flash fiction, life, murderer, serial killer, vocation
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If You Knew
If you knew what I knew, she told me, you’d drink too. We found her in an alleyway, down near most of the other homeless. In that she would have been unremarkable, just another drunk, begging for money by day … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged darkness, Horror, horror flash fiction, initiation, selling your soul, society, soul, success, wealth
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Dream House
She had a house she visited in her dreams as a child. While most dreams are ephemeral and never return – as individual and as special and as untrappable as a snowflake – this dream and this house returned, always … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged childhood, dreams, flash fiction, future, haunted house, prophecy
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I Dream of Home
I see them flying When I dream of home Night winged creatures In the darkened hills Careening through the crevices Of terrible mountains Leading to the castle top Feared by all On a blood red moon My soul hungers and … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged battlefield, blood, poetry, transylvania, vampire, vampire bas, Vlad
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Come and Play
Come and play with us they sang Running through the forest paths Like a bell their voices rang Come and play and dance and laugh! All the children heard the tune From their parents they would run Twin girls falling … Continue reading
Frankie
All Frankie ever wanted to be was a clown. My theory is he was a repressed child, and so he didn’t enjoy those younger years and was always trying to get back to them. Being a clown gave him a … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged child killer, children, clown, Horror, horror flash fiction, monster, parties, revenge, town gossip
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Crow Man
The Crow Man came to the village in the spring. While flowers gently, shyly bloomed and the air took on the warmer promise of summer, he brought a different, incongruent chill. Freshly grown grass would wither with his footfall, and … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged crow, dark magic, death, Horror, horror flash fiction, vengeful spirit, witch, wizard
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Let Me Out
Let me out she cried I am trapped inside Behind prison bars I am blood and scars Let me out she pled See how I have bled Let me take a life With my precious knife Let me out she … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged freedom, Horror, horror poetry, insanity, mad woman, murderer, pleading, trapped
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Empty
Round and round an empty room Lamplight shudders in the dark Flowers birthed without a bloom Fire shines without a spark Pacing up and down the floor Find no answers in the space Forgetting what you came here for Or … Continue reading
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