Alan Summers

small print the ten green bottles back us up against a wall

— Alan Summers

Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

grim work
rising and falling
the reaper’s scythe 

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

her mind

gets carried away

autopsy

— Jenn Ryan-Jauregui

Sharon Ferrante

creaturely 
eight legs shadow 
my tent 

— Sharon Ferrante

Rowan Beckett

trans-potting an ill-wish passes the hollow

— Rowan Beckett

silent night—

a new nanny

for the dead baby

— Rowan Beckett

Mike Fainzilber

cold sweat
watching the doorknob
turn

— Mike Fainzilber

dew rise

shimmering

through the shallow graves

— Mike Fainzilber

Dmitry Peredonov

breath of spring —
fresh stubble
on his skull

— Dmitry Peredonov

pink sunset

the home-alone husband

answers the door

— Dmitry Peredonov

Roberta Beach Jacobson

topping the ash bucket remnants of rodent breath

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

bedtime whispers

countless viruses asleep

inside me

— Roberta Beach Jacobson

Julie Bloss Kelsey

at the bottom
of my soul
an open grave

— Julie Bloss Kelsey

between life

a razor-thin line

and death

— Julie Bloss Kelsey

Jerome Berglund

stirring cinders 
the flayed is presented
with a mirror 

— Jerome Berglund

Patricia Hawkhead

wind in the rafters 
we try to sleep through
the scratchings

— Patricia Hawkhead

awake not necessarily alive

— Patricia Hawkhead

John Hawkhead

ghost train
entering a tunnel
without end

— John Hawkhead 

always in fog

muffled footsteps

near his grave

— John Hawkhead

Kelly Sargent

his evil eye
the shape
of her scream

— Kelly Sargent

the stroke of midnight thunder tangled in my hair

— Kelly Sargent

Tracy Davidson

demon seed 
the larger one gorges 
on its unborn twin 

— Tracy Davidson

severed fingers

skitter across the floor

still clutching the knife

— Tracy Davidson

Minal Sarosh

seance 
the howling dogs
sound too close 

— Minal Sarosh

selfie

the huge wave rising

behind her

— Minal Sarosh

Neena Singh

hunter’s moon
the cloud cover
a blood-red

— Neena Singh

Joshua St. Claire

something unseen
moving through mist
grimalkin

— Joshua St. Claire



deathcamas
                     by the willows
                                              a deer skull

— Joshua St. Claire

Eric A. Lohman

my head held high
the crowd cheers
the executioner

— Eric A. Lohman

skeletons of trees

lit by a lightning strike —

backyard camping

— Eric A. Lohman

Eavonka Ettinger

storage shed
long neglected
black widow 

— Eavonka Ettinger

flashlight

in the woods

a low growl

— Eavonka Ettinger

Elliot Diamond

worn black flats on the cemetery bench

— Elliot Diamond

Katherine E Winnick

midnight curse
the willows wind
passes through me 

— Katherine E Winnick