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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.
Tag Archives: dark
Memory
I don’t remember when I began to forget I’d been taken. Time melded in my place, the basement, so seamlessly that in the end my former life was but a dream and the walls around me prescribed my only reality. … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged captivity, dark, freedom, Horror, horror flash fiction, hostage, kidnap, memory, reality
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Black Cat, Black Cat – Horror Nursery Rhyme
Black cat, black cat Purring in the night Black cat, black cat Creeping out of sight Harsh cry, harsh cry As you must descend Sharp claws, sharp claws As you tear and rend Devil spawn, devil spawn Mewing at the … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged attack, black cat, dark, devil, evil, horror nursery rhyme, nursery rhyme
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My Dear – Horror Nursery Rhyme
You are old my dear You are cold and drear To the devil your soul is sold it’s clear The clock will chime you’ll hear One more time this year Then be silent forevermore I fear (c) Helen M Valentina … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged clock, dark, death, devil, horror nursery rhyme, nursery rhyme, old
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Little Zombie Girl – Horror Nursery Rhymes
Little zombie girl With you tongue unfurled Our survival hangs On your hunger pangs Little zombie child So debased and wild Hiding underneath With your grinding teeth Little zombie lost Such a dreadful cost Those that love the most Find … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry
Tagged dark, death, Horror, horror nursery rhyme, hunger, nursery rhyme, zombie
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Fortune
I will read your fortune. Sit quietly and concentrate on what you want to know. Sometimes we don’t really realise what our true questions are, so let them rise. The cards will know, and tell their story, but you may … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged curse, dark, death, destiny, fate, fortune telling, horror horror flash fiction, murder, tarot
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Lucy
Lucy made these little dolls. She called them Candy Kids, and she said they were innocent. She learnt how to make them from her grandmother, who she always claimed had gypsy blood. We’d laugh about that,and I liked her dolls, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged dark, dolls, gypsy, Horror, horror flash fiction, lost children, missing children, spells, voodoo, withcraft
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Fairy Tale (Horror Flash Fiction)
Once upon a time there was a wicked magician who became obsessed with a young local girl. She was unimpressed with his tricks and fancies and loved another simple boy, and the wicked magician was furious. He determined if he … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged captive, dark, evil, fairy tale, ghosts, hauned house, Horror, horror flash fiction, magician, tricks
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Flash fiction – Devil
The devil lives here. All the older inhabitants of our little town say so. They say on winter nights you might catch his shadow in the moonlight as he stands at his window, looking out. Many years ago, they say, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged dark, devil, fear, flash fiction, Horror, horror flash fiction, life, small towns, spells, threat, yearning
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(Flash Fiction) Alien
So long ago, a millennium or more in your time, we evolved. We rose out of the whirlpool of our world to achieve what your Buddhists call the release from attachment. Perfect detachment. Our physical form relaxed and withdrew to … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged alien, dark, descent, devolution, emotion, empathy, evolution, flash fiction, Horror, loss
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(Flash Fiction) Rock Star
Davy was a rock star. Before he reached such illustrious heights he was just David, a friendly, kind of handsome lad who never really knew his own good looks or casual charm. He had an insecurity which drove him, I … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged change, dark, flash fiction, Horror, identity, masks, rock star, soul, stage makeup, truth
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