How like a flower A nightmare can be It forms just a hint An innocent beginning Like a little bud And grows bigger, fatter Begins to blossom Spreading out its petals Each one unfurling Revealing a new terror Sending up a toxic perfume Attracting strange, mutant Creatures to its core Seeming to overtake The whole … Continue reading Nightmare Flower – Robert G. Wertzler
There was black Smoke, ash char and charcoal Everything burned Everything gone Everything ‘Total destruction’ they told him ‘No survivors Sorry for your loss’ Leaving him alone There was white Soft, pure standing alone in a heat cracked vase on a table mostly ash A single white rose And a card untouched by flame or … Continue reading Nightmare Flower – Stephen W. Buchanan
you declared that you loved me more than life itself to any and all that would listen if only you had valued life a bit more highly than the darkness you received your first kiss from Lady Midnight herself on a moonless eve the imprint of her pale, frosty lips still glitters on your neck … Continue reading Nightmare Flower – Christine E. Ray
A knock upon the door reveals a familiar, elderly man, dressed in his finest. His facial expression is one of uncertainty. What does the face of, “I don’t know how you’re still standing” look like anyway? It looks like me… haggard, unwashed, skeletal. “One foot in the grave,” I tell myself, laughter pressing psychotically upon … Continue reading Memento – 1Wise-Woman
you declared that you loved me more than life itself to any and all that would listen if only you had valued life a bit more highly than the darkness you received your first kiss from Lady Midnight herself on moonless eves the imprint of her pale, frosty lips still glitters on your neck as … Continue reading Nightmare Flower – Christine E. Ray
Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave comes to life a flower’s worst nightmare bloomed majestic and hand-picked by the gardener as a semblance of exquisite beauty its heart desired to end up in a vase brighten up an alley, a room, or somewhere be fondly placed maybe even become a reason to mend a fight or … Continue reading A Flower’s Worst Nightmare – Pallavi
Brave & Reckless 