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Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks

  • Years of an Eternity Swimming – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 27, 2025

    Years of an Eternity Swimming – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A ruined dollhouse becomes the architecture of endless time—broken windows and fallen toys stretch a single moment across a million years until happiness sits like a sharpened doubt and memory itself becomes the thing that will not be eased.

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  • Bound by the Womb – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 26, 2025

    Bound by the Womb – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A tender prayer becomes a binding memory—this verse traces a grief that repeats itself like a cradle and shows how the past holds the present with a quiet, unrelenting gravity.

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  • A Sound That Was Always a Name – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 25, 2025

    A Sound That Was Always a Name – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A name first learned in the dark becomes a memory that hardens into a carving — this short verse traces how devotion can ossify into an echo that will not be released.

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  • I Saw the Image of Your Reflection – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 24, 2025

    I Saw the Image of Your Reflection – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A shattered reflection multiplies the self into wrong versions that call for completeness—each mirrored mistake pulls the speaker toward a last, hollow answer until the original voice is lost.

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  • Send What You Can’t and I’ll Show You His Name – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
    November 23, 2025

    Send What You Can’t and I’ll Show You His Name – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

    A televangelist’s promise of salvation curdles into a public rite of blood and worship when a stranger exposes the lie. Devotion mutates into violence and the congregation pays for their faith in a way no sermon could contain.

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  • Soundless Places Lost Inside – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 22, 2025

    Soundless Places Lost Inside – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A dizzying, violent lullaby where mirrors tear and the merry-go-round never stops—this verse drags the speaker through a blooded loop until the final quiet becomes the only home.

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  • Moulded Out of Recycled Waste – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 21, 2025

    Moulded Out of Recycled Waste – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A body made from discarded plastics and screens starts to remember and then to answer back—manufactured images claim more than memory and the speaker finds themselves faced by something that was never meant to know their name.

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  • A Me Before the Mirrored Sea – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 20, 2025

    A Me Before the Mirrored Sea – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A piano on the edge of wakefulness trims memory into fragments—seasons and echoes circle and the self becomes a garment to be shed. The music repeats until you recognise no one.

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  • Voided Not Validated – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 19, 2025

    Voided Not Validated – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A slice of silence severs the middle of a life and leaves a hollow that remembers—what the void takes keeps its own counsel and returns to name you.

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  • Sliced in the Rhythm of Night – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 18, 2025

    Sliced in the Rhythm of Night – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A piano on the edge of wakefulness trims memory into fragments—seasons and echoes circle and the self becomes a garment to be shed. The music repeats until you recognise no one.

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  • Weighed Down by Harsh Lines – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 17, 2025

    Weighed Down by Harsh Lines – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A weary voice counts the small deaths of routine as the present collapses into rot—sleep becomes surrender and memory a burden that will not lift.

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  • Weeping on the Sitting Board – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 16, 2025

    Weeping on the Sitting Board – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A fragile shield fails and nights are stolen by a memory that feeds—pleas fall silent as something older remembers how to hunger.

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  • A Lesson Never Learnt – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks
    November 15, 2025

    A Lesson Never Learnt – A Short Horror Story by Matthew Tonks

    A tormented revenant watches a sleeping woman and bargains with the reflection he has become while hunger claws at memory and mercy fades.

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  • Jagged Pills Going Down – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 14, 2025

    Jagged Pills Going Down – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A ritual hush of pills and mirrored lies peels memory into fragments—this verse tracks the mechanical slide from self to shell until what remains is a pinned, silent thing that asks nothing back.

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  • Last to Be – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 13, 2025

    Last to Be – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A beast returns from the dark to wear the living as a mask and leave the land hollow—what once breathed the earth is gone, and the hollow waits, smiling in the dark.

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  • People Are Just No Good – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 12, 2025

    People Are Just No Good – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A polite crowd peels away to reveal a stitched scarecrow and a grin that feeds—this verse strips the disguise from civilisation and lets a single, relentless accusation ring out: people are just no good.

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  • I Was Not the Reflection I Saw – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 11, 2025

    I Was Not the Reflection I Saw – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A mirror multiplies a fractured self until image and flesh trade places—recognition becomes a transaction, and the thing that answers wants to be more than a copy.

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  • Spasm of My Sickness – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 10, 2025

    Spasm of My Sickness – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A shadow swells where forgiveness should be and the speaker learns a new motion in the glass—prayers become a litany of names and time leaks away into a soft, hungry forgetting.

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  • Wetness from the Printed Foot – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 9, 2025

    Wetness from the Printed Foot – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A forgiveness printed into the room keeps dampening memory until the speaker becomes an image on the wall—voices recorded in ink and skin refuse to stay quiet and the holder of the promise begins to rot inside.

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  • River Song for the Long Pauses – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks
    November 8, 2025

    River Song for the Long Pauses – A Twisted Verse by Matthew Tonks

    A stuttering hymn where sea and static conspire—breaths stretch into a breaking rhythm and screens feed the silence until mornings sour and memory drowns.

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