Tag Archives: power

Trafficked

Posted on December 26, 2019 by Helen

This time they chose the wrong one to traffic. It’s funny how sometimes it’s the most usual of things that bring an operation undone, and this certainly was instant karma, rough justice really. They’d done their usual sweep of the … Continue reading →

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Do Not Call Them

Posted on May 30, 2019 by Helen

Listen children as I tell you a story. The one story you must be told and must believe, and with the one moral you must always follow. And the moral is so important I will say it at the beginning … Continue reading →

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Older Gods

Posted on January 18, 2019 by Helen

They said the older gods were returning. They kept skulls of animals to approximate their gods. She liked the skulls very much. She could feel their power and promise when she held them. She could almost hear the gods on … Continue reading →

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Magic

Posted on August 16, 2018 by Helen

Do you believe in magic? My mother did. I think she practised it. She never admitted as such, but I knew about her books. She kept them with candles and incense and other things I didn’t recognise – and probably … Continue reading →

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Family

Posted on August 2, 2018 by Helen

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 →

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Mommy

Posted on March 23, 2018 by Helen

Mommy went away. Little doll left all alone, in a household vacated by a family too much in a hurry to see what is left behind. Mommy is gone. Animated plastic thing, with something more within, reaching the window to … 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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Skulls

Posted on April 17, 2016 by Helen

These tales we tell From bleached bones Rattling teeth Open jaws Bereft of tongue and sinew Still we speak Piled high we tell Of death most foul Victims all Of power’s struggles We know the ineffable Truth of life and … Continue reading →

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Animation – Fourteen

Posted on August 7, 2015 by Helen

  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 →

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Animation – Thirteen

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Helen

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 →

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