horror senryu journal

faint candle in the corner fighting the darkness — Gareth Nurden

reaching for raisins  from the top shelf the spider’s caress — Patricia Hawkhead

missing persons  shakespeare  in the park — Jerome Berglund carne vale wine-fed beef — Jerome Berglund

murderous night the planchette  guiding my hand — Jackie Chou not meaning to raise the knife telekinesis — Jackie Chou

decorous handle of a straight edge melancholy — Lorraine A Padden a bug catcher of unholy crimes praying mantis — Lorraine A Padden

after him the mirror hesitates — Katherine E Winnick lipstick on the rim her last word — Katherine E Winnick

mortuary  rigor mortis doesn’t stop  her husband’s moaning — Tracy Davidson

coat rack in darkness - a nebulous intruder without my glasses — Monica Luo entanglement - the crown of the rat king — Monica Luo

a very cold room a tag on your toe you’re it — John H. Dromey

protecting herself  from humans the black cat hisses — Bernadette O’Reilly tenement room the blood of bugs on the wall — Bernadette O’Reilly

Resurrection Day the growing mounds on her grave — Anthony Lusardi dry creek collecting leaves a missing person flyer — Anthony Lusardi

spelling out her maiden name — headstone — Martina Matijević

Poe’s grave the moon and i both blue — Chris Meadows moonglow I open a box of darkness — Chris Meadows

no sequel corpse flower — Max Breedlove dream dialect faceless dolls — Max Breedlove

another funeral live streaming the dead — Ron C. Moss call for donors the crimson glow of her fresh tattoo — Ron C. Moss

scruffy side up the mail-order chick we couldn’t save — Randy Brooks afloat under shallows octopus body & tentacles in blue moonlight — ...

bottomless well  a stone sinks slowly into the earth — John Hawkhead bloodwork all the early clues ignored — John Hawkhead

boys pulling the wings off of me — Anne Fox weathered headstone the birth year my own — Anne Fox

attic trunk the one-eyed doll has grown nails — Debarati Sen hail storm a shadow keeps coming closer — Debarati Sen

hidden moon-- frost already spreading over the body — Albert Schlaht