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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.
Category Archives: Animation
Night Stalker
He was a night stalker. Her night stalker. He came in the dark of the night, pitch black like his heart, a shadowy form at one with the shadowy realms. He never touched her, just watched her sleep. There was … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Horror Flash Fiction, Uncategorized
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Tagged fear, Horror, invasion, night, stalker
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Animation – Eighteen
The true nature of a god is loneliness. I know this now. It is the price of such power, it follows in its wake. You cannot commune with others that are, essentially, alien to you. It is to be separate. … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, darkness, grief, guilt, Horror, Horror writing, isolation, loneliness, loss, serial horror stories
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Animation – Seventeen
Once finished, I sleep fitfully, then the next morning, around the time of cafe assignations, I sit at my window to watch. At precisely 10am I see my beloved arrive and sit, happy and excited at a café table. He … Continue reading →
Animation – Sixteen
I wonder, as I paint, if the story of the Fall is actually the story of god and not an errant angel. Could it be that profound disappointment makes you resent the boundaries you place around yourself, and if you … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, art, corror, darkness, god, Lucifer, murder, painting, passion, planning, pre-meditated murder, serial horror stories, thwarted love, unrequied loe
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Animation – Fifteen
Too late a god understands that free will has a hidden sting. I wonder if the original god, who created all of our world, found a similar regret when his creations had inner lives, not just outer. Like me perhaps, … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged anger, Animation, art, defeat, friendship, Horror, Horror writing, jealousy, loss, painting, serial horror stories, shock, sorrow, twist, unrequited love
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Animation – Fourteen
Eventually I had to know. I now understood god and his wish for man to have free will in a manner I had previously not apprehended. Love is not love if it is coerced or forced. You must choose … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, control, desire, hope, Horror, Horror writing, infatuation, love, possession, power, serial horror stories
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Animation – Thirteen
Weeks passed, my heart trembling in his presence as though on the edge of a precipice. Was it wrong of me to read between the lines of his words, his gestures, to something more personal, more sweet, more tender? How … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, art, control, creativity, desire, hope, Horror, horror stories, Horror writing, love, need, passion, power, serial horror stories
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Animation – Twelve
We settle on three times a week. He comes ostensibly for an hour on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, after his law lectures and tutorials have finished for the day, but always stays longer than the allotted time. He draws and … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, art, Horror, Horror writing, idolatry, love, muse, need, painting, possession, serial horror stories, teaching, unrequited
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Animation – Eleven
We meet as I have painted it. I have emerged like a butterfly from an interminable chrysalis, out on the streets, and we literally bump into each other as he rushes down the pathway oblivious to my approach. It seems … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, attraction, fame, friendship, hope, Horror, Horror writing, joy, meeting, painting, recognition, serial horror stories
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Animation – Ten
It became an experiment for me. I had never been much of a conventional, bookish scientist at school – the tables of chemical compounds and values had seemed like another language, wholly inexplicable to me, and cutting up frogs was … Continue reading →
Posted in Animation, Serial Horror Stories
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Tagged Animation, dreams, experiments, hope, Horror, Horror writing, intoxication, love, possession, power, serial horror stories, stalking, tsting
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