Category Archives: Horror Flash Fiction

(Flash Fiction) Three: Greed

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Helen

I had to laugh.  The devil looks exactly like you’d expect him to look.  Perhaps that’s the point. But for me, raised on too many horror movies about yuppie sociopaths, I expected a cross of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Two: Gluttony

Posted on February 11, 2016 by Helen

I couldn’t stop.  No-one could.  We just woke up this way, part of the ‘hungry world’. Someone said it was a curse that some warlock had made out of anger, spite or just to test his power.  Others said it … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) One: Lust

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Helen

There are rules to this game.  They are ancient.  There is no sign of the matriarchal lines here. The rules work for men only.  As it has been for centuries. This is the way they trap you.  This is the … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Photography

Posted on January 27, 2016 by Helen

He would show up in my photography. At first it was so indistinct I just thought I had some flaw in the digital camera. I almost went back to the shop with it, but initially  his image came and went. … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) There

Posted on January 22, 2016 by Helen

That’s where they took us as I told the police. This dank, broken place. Once it was a warehouse, one of them said, but it had been abandoned for years. It was a good place, he said, a good place … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Office Clown

Posted on January 15, 2016 by Helen

I was always the office clown. Every major event, especially Christmas and Easter, I’d put on a show. And in between I was the prankster, the joker, the one to bring a bit of levity into things. I had a … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Faces

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Helen

Sometimes I have trouble choosing the right face for the day. My handlers have said it should be of little matter really, for most appear largely the same. Yet the differences are subtle but educative. I cannot, for instance, wear … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) New Years Day

Posted on January 1, 2016 by Helen

This morning you will awake. Still covered in the folds of your un-making you may be blinded at first. The chrysalis must be shaken off, and the world seen afresh. You are reborn. In the hours preceding this moment you … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Dance

Posted on December 25, 2015 by Helen

Let us dance, my love, beneath this fertile moon. Let us open our hearts, our minds, ourselves, to the wild and the wanton. There is blood on this dark tide, you know this well. While your mind is a jumble, … Continue reading →

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(Flash Fiction) Refugee

Posted on December 18, 2015 by Helen

  I do not want to leave. Banishment is cruel and selfish and I feel like a child about to be sent out into a thunderstorm, bereft and without a kind voice, a soft hand, a gentle touch. Out there … Continue reading →

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