Halloween Reads!

Looking for something a little spooky, or dark, or scary? Check out the stories and poems below. Ghoulishly good!

Stories

Poems

Picking Up A Hooker – Micro fiction about what happens when a man picks up a hooker and things go wrong. Very wrong.

A Goth Mermaid Tale – A prose poem about a man’s attempt to woo a goth mermaid. Does he win her over or does he just go overboard?


Could one kiss get you in bed? You think so?
Well, Karen thinks Shawn is full of it when he comes over to her table and says he can get her in bed with just a kiss. But …

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Seasons Change

Photos by: me

Season’s colour change
Bright orange, red, yellow, green
Dying or blooming


“It’s spring down here,” she informs me, as though I was unaware of the changing of seasons and their differences depending on the hemisphere.
“That must be nice,” I said into the phone.
Her image smiled at me. The wonders of technology. In my youth, the thought of being able to talk to my daughter in Australia while I was in America and see her face just as though she was in the next room would have been the stuff of science fiction; today it’s just another Tuesday.


The leaves fall downward
Gravity grabs for each leaf
None escape its grasp


“I miss the bright colors of the forest, and pumpkins and Halloween candy,” she continues.
“I’ll save you some for when you come home,” I say.
“Oh Dad,” she rolls her eyes, “I can get some here. It’s just a little different”.
“I can imagine. It’s different here without you too.”
She smiled at me. “Awww. I miss you too.”
“Hurry up babe. We’re gonna be late.” I hear a voice say in the distance. A male voice.
“Gotta go Dad. I love you.”
A blank screen.
Who was that? I want to ask. I don’t. Sometimes the seasons change and you’re too far away to do anything but watch.


The trees hold answers
They tell of the year’s changing
Bright buds, falling leaves

Another dVerse prompt. This one was: Satisfy your thirst for seasonal color! Write a haibun that alludes to either Fall foliage or Spring blossoms.

Why Fear the Dark

A skull in the middle of a black table with a black background in darkness
Image by Pexels from Pixabay
Why fear the dark?
Is that not where we dream?
No-one goes to the light to get lost in fantasy,
Nor do they stare into the sun,
Otherwise they'd go blind.
I fear not the dark.
For I am light.
Even more so,
When I close my eyes.

The Sex Cycle Collection is a collection of four books: The Sex Cycle, Seduced by Seduction, Fires of Fornication and After All is Said …. Read over 150 poems that explore the spectrum of sex, desire and relationships.

Yellow Flowers In a Vase

(Still Life with Yellow Roses)

An oil painting of yellow roses in full bloom with various other flowers of pink and white with green leaves in a vase.
Le Pho (Vietmanese, 1907 – 2001), Still life with yellow roses, oil on canvas, signed Le Pho in Chinese and English (lower right)
The flowers sit on the table 
in the corner
In front of the window
With the shades drawn
The colors of the flowers reflect off the off white curtain
creating an aura
around each bloom
Though that could be due as much to my not having my glasses
as to the reflection of light
from the sun

Mom always liked yellow flowers
“Good fortune” she’d smile and say
I wondered if Dad felt they were good fortune or just cost a fortune
But he never let the vase be empty of some sort of flower
And always something yellow.

Yellow, pink and white
Orange and green
All the colors stand out
and combine
Against a hazy backdrop
That is the room where they sit
The room of my childhood
The room of family
The colors of prosperity and good fortune
Simply colors of the past
like the petals of flowers
soon to fade away

This was from a prompt from dVerse, see below. The artist is Le Pho. I chose to use the artwork shown above and to do a derivative haibun.

For your Poetics prompt today, I would like you to select one of the artworks I have included in this post, or you may peruse Sunnyside’s selection here. Once you have selected an artwork, write a poem blending ekphrasis and theme (choose one from the list).

ekphrasis: a literary description of or commentary on a visual work of art
theme: a subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation
*women
*flowers
*landscapes
*family

On The Net

Hi there!
Sometimes people link to my work. Which is very nice. So when I have a link to my work I’m going to try and shout out the page and give a little plug. Go visit and maybe even visit back here by clicking their link.

I have a link to one of my stories, Spice & Soul, on Ryn’s website. Ryn has a page that she calls Guest Writer’s Page. It’s a page where she features or links to a “guest” writer and their work.

I was also put on another page. Frank J. Tassone’s blog featuring haiku, senryu, tanka, haibun, haiga, renga and other styles of English-language, Japanese-style poetry. I had my haibun “Remembering In The Rain” linked to on his blog.


Have you read The Sex Cycle, Seduced by Seduction, Fornication’s Fire and After All is … ? Now you can get them all together in 1! collection. The Sex Cycle Collection. Read over 150 poems that explore the spectrum of sex, desire and relationships.

If I Told You I Want To Fuck You

Black male model with a padded black background
Image by Darren Constance from Pixabay
If I told you I want to fuck you
Would you say it back to me?
Would you whisper it in sweet kisses
Your lips upon mine?

Would you let me strip you naked?
Would you undo your blouse on your own?
Would buttons be undone
And the zipper go down?

If I said I wanted to fuck you
Would you stand naked in front of me?
Would you tell me you wanted me
Without words, just sounds?

Can I slip inside you?
Move back and forth, up and down and around you
Make myself at home
In your most intimate space?

If I held your heart in my hands
Would you trust me to keep it safe
From hurt, harm and danger
Would you open it up to me
As you do your legs?

If I said I wanted to fuck you
Would you say it back?
because

I want to fuck you

A collection of erotic poetry to set your mind on things sultry, make you think, let you know that someone else has been there.


Have you read The Sex Cycle, Seduced by Seduction, Fornication’s Fire and After All is … ? Now you can get them all together in one collection! The Sex Cycle collection. Read over 150 poems that explore the spectrum of sex, desire and relationships.

Autumn Poems

Photo by Me
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Slowly falling to the ground
Swirls of red and yellow
Back and forth, back and forth
Slowly undulating on the breeze
To gather beneath the wooden limbs
Of a naked tree

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The leaves change color
Orange, brown, yellow, and red
Autumn leaves gather

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Gather my children
Listen to the whisper of the tales the trees tell
Gather my children
When the leaves fell
Gather my children
Together in a pile
Gather my children
Beginning of harvest trial
Gather my children
Watch the colors play
Gather my children
At the end of the day
To listen to the tales, as they fell, in a pile at the trial made into a play at the end of day.

This is a dVerse prompt for Fall with a focus on leaves or colors.
I chose 3 short poems, the middle poem a haiku, the other two free verse.

Where Does The Moon Hide

Photo by Balint Miko on Unsplash
Where does the moon hide?
When the day begins
When the fog begins to burn
Does it go to bed or play with friends
Turning away from the morning
Leaving the night for a new skin

Where do the stars go?
When the sun appears
Concerns about their light
do they give in to fear
Dimming their sparkle, they turn out
Letting the sun bring forth morning cheer

What happens to the night?
When daybreak makes it way
From the other side of the earth
To the dawning of a new day
Does it burn up and blow away like smoke
Used up, like an old cliché

It’s morning
The night has ended
Hear the crow of the rooster’s call
Wake up from your sleep
Sip the coffee
Eat the toast
But do you ever wonder
With bleary eyes

Where does the moon hide?

This is a poetics prompt from dVerse. “The poem I would like you write is about the end of something: the end of a season, a relationship, a story, a letter, a journey, a dream, a life, the world, etc. You can write in any form, rhyming or not; just make sure it ends in one of the ways described above – and let us know which you chose and why.”

I decided to end with a question and to go back to the beginning. Why? Well, ending with a question always seems like a good way to leave with a thought. It’s a natural for me. And it’s also a great way to start which lends itself to ending with a beginning. And of course being me I couldn’t do just one. 😁 Hope you enjoyed. And feel free to take a look at some of my other poems as well.

Blood & Tears

Photo by Heather Green on Unsplash
I once had a dream
To write it down
Trickled through my fingers like tears
Spilled on the page
Stained droplets make no sense in the sun
Though I do often wonder, where the splatter
Of blood came from

Thoughts of my beating heart
Drip, drip, drip, one word at a time
Upon this parchment, dry and cracked
To be soaked up within thin wood
Let me cry it out to the world,
“Hear the beats, of my heart!”

Ink stained fingertips mark my empty notebook
Blank pages full of dreams
Words that should have been, cover their pages in my mind
Words I would have said to you
But you would not have heard

I spread my words here for you to see
Bleed through my wounds
Blink away my tears.
Here is where I say
I love you
Fuck you
I wish you were mine
Yet, I’m glad you’re not.

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A Dream of You

Image by 愚木混株 Cdd20 from Pixabay
A dream of you, it felt so real. Like your lips were on mine. Your arms held me and all seemed fine. Like that time we went to a hotel and you fell asleep in my arms and we woke up to a movie playing on the television that neither one of us remembers watching.

I dreamt of you last night. Again. We were kissing. In an imaginary land. There were beaches where you could swim up to the bar and order ice cream sundaes and I licked whipped cream off your nipples that stuck out like maraschino cherries.

Dreams of you, haunt my days. Like a spectre that floats at the edge of my sight. A desire I have to fight, though I am willing. I want to take you, make love to you, fuck you senseless like a ragdoll, tossed upon the bed and ravished.

I dream of you. Unfortunately, that’s all I can do. For you are not with me, nor are you mine
I dream of the day, I dream of the time. When I can lay beside you as I wake in the morning after having laid beside you in the night.

A Shared Surprise.
Tiffany is home when she gets a visit from her neighbor while enjoying some sexy chat with her boyfriend. She gets the idea that watching the two of them would get him really hot. And getting him really hot would get her laid.

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