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Captured

Posted on May 3, 2017 by Helen

They caught her on the morning tide. Raised her up, heavy and frightened and squirming in their nets. The moon had not even forfeited its dominion in the sky, and even some stars still flashed their dying light on the … Continue reading →

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Sun Lord

Posted on April 13, 2017 by Helen

The ancients knew, everything comes and departs by the sun. My family grew in this tradition, as generations before. In every other religion, every other myth, our truth was hidden, only for the initiates to recognise. Death and rebirth, sacrifice … Continue reading →

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Remains

Posted on March 23, 2017 by Helen

When we found the skeleton we couldn’t believe it. We aren’t scientists, we are archeologists,and our dig wasn’t for skeletons, it was for ancient artefacts. But I guess we found something truly ancient, and truly terrifying amongst the earthenware and … Continue reading →

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Renovations

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Helen

I told them it was pointless to renovate. Renovations never take in this house I said. Many have tried and all have failed. The house likes its shadows and its dark corners and its decay. I told them they were … Continue reading →

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Memory

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Helen

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 →

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Broken Chair (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Helen

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 →

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The Owl (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on December 13, 2016 by Helen

When the owl comes one of the children must disappear. All the townsfolk know this, and guard their children close every night in case the mystical sound of the owl calling, hooting as it descends, should reach their vulnerable ears. … Continue reading →

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Infection (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Helen

They infect him with electricity. In the laboratory he was sedated but now, in day to day life, assaults come unexpected and unprotected. They are testing their limits, he knows. He knows everything about them because they are a virus … Continue reading →

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Birthday Choice (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Helen

She knew her father was different to other fathers. He was far more clever, and some say he had magic in his soul. And she was not like other little girls, she knew that too. How could she be, with … Continue reading →

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Hungry Ghost (Horror Flash Fiction)

Posted on October 25, 2016 by Helen

She was a hungry ghost. One of the new ones that modern medicine so blindly made. Transplants after an untimely death, of vital organs still with a spark of life, seemed a blessing and little else. She’d signed the donor … Continue reading →

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