Dry lips moved without words inside dusty bandages. Empty eye sockets stared into the suffocating darkness of millennia. Voices echoed in the world beyond, voices strange and unfamiliar. Rotting ears strained to hear, and a lost mind struggled to understand. Ragged nails tore through ancient wrappings. Fingers more like talons scraped against thick painted wood. […]
Creepy Houses
If you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, you might have seen me talking about a dream which actually unsettled me. I rarely remember my dreams, and when I do, they’ve often just been weird as opposed to actually creepy or even scary – in fact, I don’t even remember ever having had a nightmare. […]
Photo Prompt 69
New prompt available! If you want to use the prompt, all I ask is that you include a link to this entry and a credit to me for the photograph, and that you post a link to your story in the comments box below so I can see what you’ve come up with! If you […]
iBook Author app – good or bad?
I read this article in the Metro newspaper last week, and found it online. For those of you who hadn’t heard, a new iPhone app has been released that allegedly makes it even easier to publish books yourself. The iBook Author app lets you drag a word file into the app, and it does all […]
Friday Flash – Fold
Becky and Karl sit opposite one another. A naked bulb hangs above the table, casting a harsh circle of light across the game. Becky reaches forward and tosses another handful of poker chips onto the pile. Karl displays his cards – three of a kind. Becky groans and drops her cards facedown onto the table. […]
Mid-January Update
Yesterday I introduced myself again over on Write Anything – albeit myself as a writer, not as a person. It’s part of their project to get the readers of the blog to get to know the contributors. I like to think that the two are actually fairly closely linked, but it got me thinking again […]
