Category Archives: Horror Flash Fiction

Train

Posted on August 9, 2018 by Helen

When I was young my father once took me to see an old train which was kept as a kind of historic relic at the train yard. In those days that sort of trip was exciting, because my father was … Continue reading →

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Televised

Posted on July 26, 2018 by Helen

The revolution was televised in the end, so the song was wrong about that. Songs are often wrong, if you think about it. Probably only so much wisdom you can shoe-horn into three or four verses and a chorus. Anyway … Continue reading →

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Old Sparky

Posted on July 19, 2018 by Helen

Old Sparky’s been waiting for you, yes he has! He’s patient you know. Over time he always gets his food. There’s no escape. Though I wager you are trying still. All the money ran out for fancy lawyers, and now … Continue reading →

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Hands

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Helen

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 →

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They’re Here

Posted on June 21, 2018 by Helen

“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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Climbing

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Helen

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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God’s Face

Posted on June 8, 2018 by Helen

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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Possessed

Posted on May 25, 2018 by Helen

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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Mannequin

Posted on May 18, 2018 by Helen

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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The End

Posted on May 11, 2018 by Helen

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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