Now would be a good time to stop drinking I thought. Was this my home?I knew the door and the path that led to it but what lay on the other side was no moremy house than a cave. That’s what my eyes had shown me. A cave that descendeddeep into the earth with calcite …
At first, I waited for a phone call from him. A YouTube video advised me toallow seven days of no contact and not to contact him first. That I should wait, if he caredenough, he would call the video advised me. Everything was white then. Our first snow of January had fallen, crushing ourfragile Texas …
Lenore stood at the fire, watching the log engulfed in flames dance playfully against the grate. She couldno longer see her feet, and her due date was near.“A baby.” She murmured low, rubbing her round belly. Although the thought of a baby made her smile,she couldn’t forget the first baby. And how could she? The …
I’m intruding on the night, the stench of it all. I can smell the skunk, cat’s piss, wet dog,and spider webs catching my knees going down the stairs. The mosquitos fly away from me, andI am unwanted in their domain. I beg for a decent bite to swell my flesh and turn me intosomething else. …
I’m inspired by Jamaica Kincaid, Girl. I was recalled back to my time growing up with mygrandparents and their regimented schedules. Its 5 am and my papa is already up and has moved the grass and planted collardgreens; By 7am he tells me that I have slept half the day away; my grandmother hitsthe base …
The Cartwrights’ annual Christmas ball was held at their lavish twenty-room Texas estatethis evening. An invite-only over-the-top Texas-sized Christmas party where big hair and shoulder padsruled the dance floor. Rosa Cartwright, the virginal debutante daughter of Mr. Cartwright, glowed fromthe corner of the room with a smile that held a secret.Rosa would lose her virginity …
Strangely, as a Goth, this is my first time reading about Carmilla. I’m drawn to hercharacter, beauty, and infatuation with Laura. I found the first UK version of the film recommended on the list and watched the entire movie. It differed from the story in manyrespects. In the film, Carmilla doesn’t have a mother who …
Like most twins, Delphine and Collette Mercier had always been close. They did everything together. Only now, in their mid-twenties, had they stopped dressing like one another to prove a point that they could think independently of one another, but still, somehow, managed to show up to any given event with similar dresses and hairstyles, …
The Past in the Future. Indeed, the most trivial of past episodes we forget, but then there are the memories where we can still feel the scrape of our knees slamming against the pavement, the grittiness of gravel and powdered bits of broken concrete as if it were happening right now, on repeat, in a …
When I agreed to let Connie stay with me, it was on condition that she wouldn’t get in my way. We both decided she would stay out of my business, and I would stay out of hers. It’s never easy for two grown women to stay together – one queen per hive and all that. …