For a pacific vampire, it’s a dilemma when his sanguine addiction to the young results in a host of vampiric… Read more HORROR BITS
Category: SHORTS TO READ NOW
CARELESS NATURE VERSE or Something Like (2)
Avian sniper wars? You betcha. The Carolina wren nest box (chicks being fed) is besieged by brainwashed house sparrows trying… Read more CARELESS NATURE VERSE or Something Like (2)
HINTS FROM HELPFUL HARRIET AT HOME
Ambition must be fed, and after a long labor, a newborn hardcopy coos in a repurposed gift basket. Myriad instars… Read more HINTS FROM HELPFUL HARRIET AT HOME
TWEETS 2020s
Born to slavery and loss, she issued her war cry at birth. The master blithely named her Karma, but her… Read more TWEETS 2020s
I SERVE THE GREY GODS
By Cecily Winter We await the song of the gray gods with heads bowed and hearts heavy. We await the… Read more I SERVE THE GREY GODS
THE PANIC BUTTON
A short autobiographical piece recently published by the CABINET OF HEED read here or at http://cabinetofheed.com by Cecily Winter… Read more THE PANIC BUTTON
CARELESS NATURE VERSE or something like …
A windmill’s wings turn to sing a creaking lullaby of ground wheat for rooks roosting in their sails. Stars blaze… Read more CARELESS NATURE VERSE or something like …
ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
THE PHILOSOPHY OF HORATIO: Copyright and art by Cecily Winter Dec. 2019 “Anything is possible,” Hamlet used to say as… Read more ZANE’S VERSION OF HAMLET
A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A 150 word crime-flash using 10 prompts from the titles of Anne Cleeves’ novels. CORPSE WITH GANNETS by Susan B.… Read more A FLASHWORDS WINNER AT THE 2019 CRIME BAKE
A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD
A whimsical and highly anachronistic re-telling of ‘Hansel and Gretel’ and the little house that saved them from the stew… Read more A FAIRY TALE: THE LITTLE HOUSE THAT COULD