Author Archives: Helen

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About Helen

I'm drawn to blogging as a way to share ideas and consider what makes us who we are. Whether it's in our working life or our creativity, expression is a means to connect.

Pieces of Me

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Helen

Pieces of me Take such pieces of me Blood from my veins Flesh from my limbs Hair from my scalp Take it all now Ghostly hands will have Their due Pieces of me Consume such pieces of me All that … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Dolly Did It

Posted on April 22, 2016 by Helen

She was such a little doll, that’s what they all said. Her skin so white and smooth, her face so structurally perfect, her eyes so wide and blue. Just a little doll. So they laughed when as a child she … Continue reading →

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Skulls

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Helen

These tales we tell From bleached bones Rattling teeth Open jaws Bereft of tongue and sinew Still we speak Piled high we tell Of death most foul Victims all Of power’s struggles We know the ineffable Truth of life and … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Thirty Three

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Helen

On his thirty-third birthday the party was a ritual. He had been preparing for this most of his young life, so he was neither dismayed nor nervous.  He had been groomed for the moment, and had studied all the texts … Continue reading →

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Woods

Posted on April 10, 2016 by Helen

I met the devil in the woods Emerged from fire as he should The flames he brought within his wake I saw the trees had yet withstood And here I made my first mistake For fire was water like a … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Television

Posted on April 8, 2016 by Helen

The first sign was on television.  In retrospect that might have been surprising, given the total unrest, but I didn’t hear it.  Or if I did I didn’t understand, in my first waking moments, that the sound was louder than … Continue reading →

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Corridors

Posted on April 3, 2016 by Helen

Down such corridors Down, down Blood red shining In my blinking eyes There is terror here There is dull surprise Down these corridors Down such vacant halls Down, down Where no souls reside Except the woken dead Feel them touch … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Picture on the Wall

Posted on April 1, 2016 by Helen

In my uncle’s house there is a curious picture on the lounge room wall.  It hangs above the television, which seems an odd place for it, for something in its tone and feel is ancient. A thing long before electricity … Continue reading →

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Schadenfreude – Twenty Nine

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Helen

    David shivered. It felt like something walked over his grave. He stopped typing. He wanted to leave. Schaden waited and then seemed to realize he was spent, so she continued. She told him the truth, the truth he’d … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Spider Girl

Posted on March 25, 2016 by Helen

  Spider girl loved her web.  Sometimes it was on the walls, or the cornices of an abandoned house.  Sometimes it was between trees.  And sometimes, the best times, it was over swamps, mixing with the murky depths of water. … Continue reading →

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