Tag: horror
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A Dark Sestina
I wrote this poem in 2019 during one of my teaching certification classes at UT. The intention was for pre-service teachers to experience different types of assignments as their future students would. Being me, I made a turn into darkness. The style of poem is called a sestina, “a complex French verse form, usually unrhymed,…
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One With Nature
“You awake?” I reached out beside me to pat Allie’s back. The sun blazed through my eyelids, and a breeze wafted in through the open door flap, chilling the tent. I shivered, burrowing into my sleeping bag. I found hers empty and cold beneath my hand. “Hey, you need to close the tent. We don’t…
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The Otherside
The door is locked. Why, you ask? That’s the wrong question. The right question is: why have I thrown out the key? Though you didn’t ask, I’ll answer. The door is locked because closed wasn’t enough, and the key has been thrown out because locked wasn’t enough. What lies on the other side could turn…
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Invisible Polly
Polly sat on the bench, her clasped hands tucked between her knees. Her mother, Rhonda, sat beside her, encircling her with her arms. “What do you think they’re going to say?” Polly asked. Rhonda thought of Sister Sabrina’s situation a few years earlier, and shook her head. “Whatever they say, we’ll abide by. They’re given…
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The Storm
Rainy days. They’re supposed to be for inside adventures – reading, forts, boardgames, hide-and-seek. But in the 90s we were too occupied with television, video games, and CDs to really experience them that way. When the skies would darken, lightning flashing, thunder growling, and rain dumping, streaming from the gutters in transitory rivers, my sister…
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