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
Follow Me
She said follow me into the forest. I heard her, so clear. Even though she, herself, was indistinct and never came too near. She wavered in the moonlight. I saw her shadowy form. And even though it frightened me, she … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Uncategorized
Tagged ghost, horror prose, offers, otherworldly, Prose
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Levitate
These days we levitate On words and thoughts of indiscriminate hate From partisanship we’ll not deviate No matter the chaos we create These days the truth will fly For but a moment whereas a lie Traverses the globe in a … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged delusion, devils, hate, horror poetry, partisan, politics, propoganda, truth
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Special Room
My uncle Wilson lived in a very old house that he’d inherited from his grandfather. Sometimes we’d visit around Christmas time because mother said he was lonely. “He always was, even as a boy” she said with mix of fondness … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged family, ghosts, horror flash fiction, hunger
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Consume
They say never go to where the trees meet in that forest. Where their branches and roots clasp to one another like some silent, waiting web. If you go there, they say, you don’t return. The trees are hungry, they … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged consume, food, horror flash fiction, town myths, trapped, Trees
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Lucy, Lucy
Lucy, Lucy hear my call I would give my love to all Heard you weeping on the stair Know that you are hiding there In your room, beside your bed Can’t fool me just ’cause you’re dead Lucy, Lucy take … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged avenge, children, ghosts horror, horror poetry, revenge
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The Wild One
They called her ‘the Wild One’. It might have been her red eyes, peering out from the room in which she was held. It might have been the groans and growls she emitted anytime someone passed by. It might have … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged captured, cruelty, evolution, experiments, freedom, Horror, horror flash fiction, Wild
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Normal
Reggie was never a normal boy, let’s be honest. He was hopeless at school. Bright enough, but never in sync with the other kids. A loner they said, though you could see him sometimes, sitting on his own, gazing at … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged bullies, Horror, horror flash fiction, loneliness, loner, mystery, outcast, teenage
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In Those Days
In those days the children went missing In the cornfields the scarecrows would weep As darker angels rocked the children to their deeper sleep And we would search across the lands Nothing but hope in our trembling hands All the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged Crops, darkness, history, Horror, horror poetry, Regrets, sacrifice
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The Shrink
“What do you see?” I asked the shrink, just like he’d ask me with all those damned Rorschach tests in his cold clinic rooms. I held up my art, my handiwork. The creativity of it thrills me just to think … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged fear, Horror, horror flash fiction, kidnapping, psychiatry, Rorschach tests, serial killer, therapy
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Little Light
She followed the little light into the forest. At first it was a glow into distance, down a pleasant, welcoming track. It beckoned her with a promise of light and warmth, and the night was very cold and very dark, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
Tagged dark, entrapped, forest, Horror, horror flash fiction, light, night, Trickery
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