horror senryu journal

rattus rattus the helter skelter of an overfilled dumpster — Lorraine A Padden attention speculation... guessing the number of eyeballs in a...

radiation burns —  she asks what  year is this — Jerome Berglund degrees kelvin . . .  beneath the mitre  sickles project — Jerome Berglund

scattering the ash his silhouette floats  with the waves — Debarati Sen

scrawled sigils the bleed of witch’s ink — Kelly Sauvage Moyer skeleton key . . . the rusting cage of consciousness — Kelly Sauvage Moyer

filling the basket with cut flowers a wicker coffin — John Hawkhead soft flurries our old cat releases her final purr — John Hawkhead

questions and answers the piano wire sings — Mark Gilbert

firefly your guts around my finger glow — John Masterson

his rotting bones the perfect fly trap — Sharon Ferrante

second inning in the catcher’s mitt severed hand — Roberta Beach Jacobson

clear night sky the man in the moon winks — Joseph P. Wechselberger

hawthorn grove shadows jerking by the stone altar — Joshua St. Claire stirring her teacup of sky monkshood — Joshua St. Claire

hubby’s ghost— now he shows up — Greg Schwartz

lamp shade a shadow grows horns — Debarati Sen

discovering the gravesite black irises — Kelly Sargent

the dreadful taste of black rubber nod if you agree — Leon Tefft

straight out of a slasher movie the autumn wind  — Chad Lee Robinson deep in the belly laugh of a chainsaw — Chad Lee Robinson

day old out of the nest flies — Randy Brooks

gothic tale a spider on the page dots the eye — Anne Fox

the dog’s new bone found on the shore a washed-up corpse — Kimberly Kuchar

one less off the wish list bucket of blood — Grace Mckie triptych of nooses gallows pole — Grace Mckie