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: family
Mask
Image Credit: Frankie’s/Shutterstock.com I believe my aunt knew she was dying long before the cancer finally took her that cold September evening last week. I do not believe it from prejudice or even knowing her well – no indeed, I … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged family, Horror, Inheritance, Magick, Mask, secret, trick, wealth
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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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Entropy
I am living entropy dissolving Into the uncaring sky Surrounded by the cacophony of lives lived unseeing Floating dissolution, dislocation Piece by piece I am my father’s child Loveless and alone Barren and old now Fulfilling the genetic blueprint Set … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged death, dissolution, entropy, family, fear, isolation, the end
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Family
Keep it in the family Headstones lined up One, two, three It’s a perfect dynasty Worthy of our pedigree And I think that you’ll agree Artistic in its symmetry Just our little family Buried for eternity Lined up here where … Continue reading
Posted in Poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged family, horror poetry, kings, murderers, power, souls
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Broken Chair (Horror Flash Fiction)
A desolate house and a single broken child’s chair was all the police found upstairs. The house had been deserted, clearly, for many weeks. The man who lived here was long gone, and only these memories remained. Underneath the house, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged children, cruelty, darkness, death, family, Horror, horror flash fiction, murder, serial killer, woman
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Raven
In those days the raven was her friend. It would alight her windowsill in the earliest hours of the morning, sentinel to watch over her. Life was hard,and she needed a protector, and it seems to find her and follow … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged death, family, Horror, horror flash fiction, ilmess, psychopomp, raven, youth
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(Flash Fiction) Blackbird
The blackbird came rarely, and when it came, it brought death in its wake. No-one knew why. It was just a bird, and acted no differently to its feathered kin. But time and again this one returned, and every time, … Continue reading
Posted in Horror Flash Fiction
Tagged blackbird, dark, death, family, flash fiction, grief, Horror, kin, loss, psychopomp, Salem, witches
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(Flash Fiction) Thirty Three
On his thirty-third birthday the party was a ritual. He had been preparing for this most of his young life, so he was neither dismayed nor nervous. He had been groomed for the moment, and had studied all the texts … Continue reading
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Tagged bloodlines, dark, family, flash fiction, Horror, numbers, numerology, ritual, sacrifice, thirty three
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The Darker Realms 