These ghouls manage to expand the boundaries of horror all day every day. We shed no tears upon reprisal.

Is it just my poor memory or does Israel have a habit of perpetrating its worst massacres of Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday nights US Eastern Time?

I am a humanist and a poet. And I will always speak up for the oppressed. I will always write the name of beauty and truth in the book of life. And I will accept whatever consequence for speaking the truth.

cabal of butchers cackle amongst themselves high on burning flesh #haikuhorrorprompt 1178 #vsshorror

I'm still alive

Much has changed and more remain still to change, but what terrifies me is the thought of what may not change. — akyllus

When those pockets of time Become the end of an era Those are the saddest longest Pockets of time #poetry

#Aware only of cold. How starlight falls like frost on bare skin. How sparkling grass crunches as a snowshoe hare leaps away. How ancient light becomes a new song in a moonless sky. How air becomes eternity when your warm lips leave mine for the last time. #vss365

He called her a witch, but he was a vampire sucking the blood out of the innocent. Her magic came from heaven. The moon and the stars dancing to her love. Witch? Maybe, but she posseses nothing that God didn't give her to spread love. Her dreams are love. She is love.

From bookseller to book-barker - this Saturday (10/19) will be my first-ever book signing at the Barnes & Noble where I once worked! Come see me anytime after noon in Fort Collins, Colorado, & revel in my awkwardness. Barnes & Noble Black Spot Books Unnerving Bayou Wolf Press

I used to cruise a few words of the roads about town, until the voices stumbled on winding talk of roads being a jiffy lube for conversation, to smooth white noise jazz their troubles to. Main St and all left turns for me now thanks and somehow I am the dead end of the office.

يقبرني An untranslatable word , Arabic phrase literally meaning you bury me, ya’aburnee is the hope that one’s lover will die before them because life without them is unbearable. This both beautiful and morbid expression is generally used in the Levantine Arabic dialect

Time is not slowing down nor are we any good at living in clay, deciding ourselves out of the earth, shaping each other for a natural moment of disconnected actions. No, someone in this room has super stop motion powers.

Romance was better left twining roses in daydreams. Within those safe margins, nothing ever went wrong. But with just a little #alacrity, even the chaos of a sudden downpour could be romantic. Magical. Because she found out what it was like to be kissed in the rain. #vss365

Turned on the computer to find, not only an acceptance, but a #HorrorPromptAwards🏆 #91 nod! Makes for an excellent Wednesday indeed! Vote now folks!

John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry started today. "We need allies who are going to help us achieve a victory, not allies who are going to tell us to be nonviolent. If a white man wants to be your ally, what does he think of John Brown?" Malcolm X

“Cloudbursting in a flyover state;” As Americans, by Dezmond Davanti ecopunklit.com/as-americans/

(1/2) Silent tears that lament the night, Screams of anguish that torture the soul, Oh how we love to hurt the hurt, Tear to pieces the already broken, Set to flames the burnt and injured, Soak the parched earth with blood and tears, Create monsters out of puppets,

crisp chill of nightfall bonfires welcome spirits autumn ardor #vss365 #haiku

Preparing to become a DJ, do I just collect every cool sample I come across or fire up a beat and be inspired like you know what would be perfect right there? Toaster pops up a warping 45 RPM recording of Burning Down the House