Tag: Life

  • Somewhere Home – Wrapped In Words

    Somewhere Home – Wrapped In Words

    Broken wishes and shattered bones,

    lost within are the lies I’ve told,

    so I’ll go far away,

    another place, another day,

    somewhere darker than my own,

    somwhere new I can call home.

  • Day 363 – Only A Love Game – 50 Word Story Expanded

    Day 363 – Only A Love Game – 50 Word Story Expanded

    “I could never, not now, not after all this,” he says through groggy eyes.

    “Why? We’re made to be together, literally created by heaven and earth for one reason, to bond, don’t you feel it? Can’t you see it?” She says pressing a hand against his dirty, bruised chest, he grabs her hand and thrust it away.

    “You’re FUCKING crazy, to think that just proves it. WE weren’t made to be together you half-wit, we fucked, that’s it, I was never interested in anything else,” he says through clenched teeth.

    She slap him across the face, “Is this really all you have to say for yourself? Is this all that’s left between us?” She asks.

    “Fuck you! You lock me up in this prison, yet you expect me to love you, what a fool you are, and how I’ll love taking your head from your shoulders!”

    “You’re just like the rest, a whore!” She spits raking him across the face with her fingernails, tearing chunks of skin free, the blood glistens in the light as he hisses in pain.

    “You fucking bitch!” He yells leaping towards her, but instead, crashes to the ground in a heap as the chains reach their limit.

    “We could’ve been something wonderful, we could’ve made the skies sing, but,” she says, looking down at him, her face twisted with anger, as she tightens her grip on a the hilt of a large blade. “You spat in the face of true love, degrading what we had, degrading me, for that there can only be one punishment.”

    “Y-Y-You’re fucking crazy, we went out three times, you were the one who invited me in, you made the first move honey, I just went with the flow. No wonder you’re single, freaks like you belong in zoos, not dating fucking sites!” He screams as he forces himself up, onto his knees.

    “I thought you loved me,” she says fighting back the tears.

    “Lady, ain’t no one ever going to love you, you fuck….” he stops dead in his tracks as she drives the knifes blade deep into the back of his head, he lets out a final, desperate, strained gasp, then collapses to the floor, where she drives the blade into him again and again, screaming wildly as she does, until she finally stumbles to her knees and sits sobbing in an ever going pool of his blood.

    “You could’ve been the one,” she says softly.

  • Day 363 – Only A Love Game – 50 Word Story

    Day 363 – Only A Love Game – 50 Word Story

    “Is this really all you have to say for yourself? Is this all that’s left between us?” She asks.

    “Fuck you! You lock me up in this prison, yet you expect me to love you, what a fool you are, and how I’ll love taking your head from your shoulders!”

     

    This 50 word story was originally published in issue 182 of Fear In Fear Magazine under the name Only A Love Game, and posted here on the 28th of September under the name Head, the short was expanded upon the same day, to read the expanded version, you can go HERE.

    You’re more than welcome, as always if inspiration hits, to expand the story yourself, all I ask is that you post a link in the comments below so I can showcase it on the blog.

     

  • Daily Grind – Magnificent Beings Of Light

    Daily Grind – Magnificent Beings Of Light

    My mind is coming undone, as is my world.

    My shadow friend, the one who’s been visiting me so often, is now like a mirror of myself, his face scarred, his body, bruised, broken, old, and his eyes, empty, the spark of darkness gone.

    He tells me it’s his fault, their fault, they are trying to unmake him, unmake, all of us, he fears the truth will soon shatter reality and when it does, all that is, will cease to exist, and, not even I will be left.

    I demand to know his secrets, what lies he has told me, misfortune he says, misfortune is the truth, is reality, one that I must face, but, will I be whole, will I be ready when the curtain closes.

    He speaks in riddles, not as jolly as they once were, not soaked in the blood of others, now, softly spoken, restrained, its energy gone.

    Then I hear my name, and my voice reply, but yet I said nothing, I wander through my home, as if it is unknown to me, almost getting lost as corridor after corridor join on to the last, finally, I find my way into a room, white, smelling of chemicals, suddenly I’m sitting alone in the room, and then, he is there standing before me.

    He smiles, and grips my shoulder, assuring me that everything will be fine, soon I’ll be done with all this, it’s not his words that I feared, it was the sadness in his eyes, he gripped me again, tightly by the shoulder, not in anger, but in compassion, reassurance, this man, I knew him, he knew me, but, who was he.

    I ask him why he was here, who he was, and what has he done to my home, his face became sadder, and he smiles again, he said once again everything was going to be alright, that sometimes, a battle with no reward, is a battle best lost.

    And then, he was gone, I was standing in the doorway to my lounge room, home, a child sat on the floor, playing with Lego, she beckoned me to join her, a smile on her face, she called me daddy, I reached out to her, I felt my lip trembling, I, I was disoriented, and he grabbed my arm, shaking his head in displeasure, my shadow friend, was he me, was I it, or were we one in the same, are we all just one mind fractured into many?

    The little girl disappeared, and I was alone once more, lost in my thoughts, so I sat on the couch for hours, staring at the spot where she sat, her words buzzing around my head, as were those of the strange man, and my shadow friend.

  • 3

    3

    Slowly,

    as the veil lifts,

    and you see me now,

    for what I am,

    the beast,

    the demon,

    the bastard son of this world,

    but I ask you not to be afraid,

    there is no need for fear,

    for you should rejoice,

    for soon,

    when I take you within,

    you,

    and your sin,

    it’ll be forever,

    there will be no end,

    I’ll never leave you,

    and,

    you’ll never leave me,

    so close your eyes my child,

    for it’s time t.. What, are you crying?

    can it be true,

    after all the words I’ve said,

    you still fear me,

    you still fear your savior?

    Believe me,

    the pain will be quick,

    and you will realise I am your only salvation,

    I am the the son,

    the daughter,

    the first.

  • Separate Me – Wrapped In Words

    Separate Me – Wrapped In Words

    Through my skin,

    the blade does cut,

    starting upwards,

    from my gut,

    you dug it in there,

    you drove it deep,

    you’ve silenced the demon,

    and you’ve granting me eternal sleep.

     

  • Day 362 – It Waits In The Basement – YouChallenge Short Story

    Day 362 – It Waits In The Basement – YouChallenge Short Story

    “I’m telling you Kyle, no bullshit, I saw them going at it with my own eyes, Kendra and Mr Wells, not more than five minutes ago!” He yells at his younger brother, who rolls over and pretends to be asleep.

    “Kyle, for god sake, you’ve got to come and have a look, you’ll regret it for the rest of your life if you don’t, always wondering what they looked like out in the open,” he says, Kyle turns over and stares at Lincoln, who’s smile stretches from one ear to the other.

    “What make you think I wanna see them?”

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  • See Me Be – Wrapped In Words

    See Me Be – Wrapped In Words

    Scatching to get free,

    the darkness radiates from me,

    body broken,

    torn apart,

    and then I see,

    who I’ll never be,

    that I’ll never be free,

    of who is truly me.

  • Welcome, Your Fear Master

    Welcome, Your Fear Master

    Hello my children, I say my, because you all, are my children in some way, shape or form.

    As we move forward, you will see me more and more, for I will be the voice of all those who do not have one, I will be the master, of this domain.

    You will learn to fear me, but, you will also yearn for my touch, for my, flesh.

    Until then, enjoy the darkness for, it will only get darker from here on in.

    For there is only 3 days until the end of all roads twisted, and the begging of trials filled with fear, and dread.

    If you wish to call me, fearinfear@outlook.com is where I sit, presiding over this place I will soon call, home. Send me messages, pictures, words, those worthy, will be printed here, those, unworthy, I will keep for myself.

    The Fear Master

  • Daily Grind – The Truth According To Clouds

    Daily Grind – The Truth According To Clouds

    I had a moment, not too long ago, it could’ve been hours, or minutes, days even for all I know, but it was a realization, as the truth dawned on me, and then, moments later, disappeared into the void as though it was a clouds passing by, and the image I saw in it, the shape, gone as quickly as it formed.

    But I tasted the blood, I felt the pain, I, I think it was them, my family, their blood spilling, a blade in my hand, then, at my own face,, ripping, tearing, could it be true?

    The doctors say its normal, the trauma I experienced was deep, not just of the flesh, but my mind, it fractured into pieces, and I started developing, I keep losing my train of thought, things happen, mysterious things, confusing me, trying to send me off the deep end, trying to bust open the gate that is locked inside, that it hides behind, something dark, memories, or maybe worse.

    Then there’s Gareth and his drawings, he doesn’t realize he’s just as infected as I am, if he were to look in the mirror he would soon see his own reshaping’s, his decay, and rebirth as a darkling.

    Doctors? Words, words that have no place here, words I did not write, there are no doctor’s, there is no normality, there is only now, there is only this, the shifting sands of what is, what was, what never could have been, and, what will be, although I can’t even trust this blog anymore, I write words and others appear, someone, is playing with my mind, it’s him, the deceiver, I know you’re listening, I know you’re awake, somewhere in there.

    Time is ticking out, and its ticking out for you, Matthew.

     

  • 4

    4

    These are my words,ǝdɐɔsǝ

    this is my story,ǝdɐɔsǝ

    he has no say,ǝɯ ǝʞᴉl dn puǝ ʇ,uop

    over what you will read,uɐɔ noʎ ǝlᴉɥʍ unɹ uǝɥʇ

    so take no notice,ǝsɐɔ ǝɥʇ sᴉ ʇɐɥʇ ɟᴉ puɐ

    of his sin crying out,ʍouʞ ʇ,uop noʎ ssǝlun

    for this world will bow down before me,ʇᴉ pɐǝɹ ʇ,uop noʎ ssǝlun

    as I take you all in,ǝǝs llᴉʍ noʎ uoos

    you and your sins,ɹǝƃuoɹʇs sʍoɹƃ ʇsɐǝq ǝɥʇ

    I’m the beast that was before man,ʇᴉ pɐǝɹ noʎ ǝɯᴉʇ ɥɔɐǝ

    who witnessed your downfall,ʇᴉ ǝɹɐɥs noʎ ǝɯᴉʇ ɥɔɐǝ ɹoɟ

    your punishment at his hands,noʎ ɟo ǝsnɐɔǝq llɐ

    so once you’re mine,ƃuoɹʇs ooʇ s,ʇᴉ ɹoɟ

    then his turn it will be,ǝɯ ʇǝl ʇ,uoʍ ʇᴉ ʇnq

    to pay his final price,ǝdɐɔsǝ oʇ ʇuɐʍ ʇsnɾ I uǝɥʍ

    for betraying his children,spɹoʍ s,ʇᴉ ǝɹɐɥs ǝɯ ƃuᴉʞɐɯ

    for sin filled bags of flesh,ǝʇᴉɹʍ ǝɯ ƃuᴉʞɐɯ

    that I will soon rip,ǝɯ oʇ ƃuᴉɯoɔ sdǝǝʞ ʇᴉ

    to pieces from within,ɹǝʌo puɐ ɹǝʌo puɐ ɹǝʌO

  • Daily Grind – Yet Again, He Mocks Us!

    Daily Grind – Yet Again, He Mocks Us!

    Yet again he mocks from where he hides, come out, see me, I’ll show you my scars and, I’ll show you the beast, in all its glory, and then it will feast upon your sin!

    What Gareth?

    Are you afraid of this withered beast?

  • I Blame – Wrapped In Words

    I Blame – Wrapped In Words

    There is no need to bless me,

    for I do not sin,

    I’m just drowning in the mess,

    that I was born in,

    I wear no mask,

    I hide no shame,

    when in the end,

    it is you I blame.

     

  • Day 361 – Bang Goes The Drum – 50 Word Story Expanded

    Day 361 – Bang Goes The Drum – 50 Word Story Expanded

    If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE.

     

    “Ya come here lokin for magic girl, I ain’t got no magic here, I ain’t got much’o anything, what makes ya believe me have that kinda thing here?” The old woman’s says, looking through her one good eye, while the other sits unmoving, white.

    “I’ve come a long way to see you, I know what you really Vamera, the time for lies is over, your past is coming to bite you on the proverbial behind, so, you can continue down this road, or you can realize an ally when you see one,” the girl says sternly, launching herself to her feet.

    The old woman laughs, “Ya take me for a fool girl? I’m old, been living a long time, but me don’t have no reason ta lie, not ta ya anyway, I know of Vamera, I know what she did, but, I hate ta spoil ya grand performance, she long gone, years now, ya ask anyone girly, they all tell ya all the same, she dead,” the old woman says.

    “You lie, I don’t care what you say, I know who you are, and if you keep playing this game, I’ll make you wish to be dead!”

    “What ya gonna do girly? I’m old, death be a blessing ta someone like me, ya gonna’ave to do better than that if ya wanna be scaring me,” she says with a crooked, toothless smile.

    “You don’t realize who I am do you?” The girl says promptly, folding her arms across her chest.

    “Does it matter? Ya just be some girl who thinks she’s a woman, an better than little old me,” the old woman says, squinting her good eye.

    “I’m madam Contessa, of the DeMicShires, generation upon generation has my family been holders of the key of Danquiench, and as of last week, I inherited that honor. As I told you, your past, is about to catch up with you, the spell you placed upon my family, and now upon me, will be no more,” she says raising an old, eighteenth century pistol, cocking the firing mechanism as she does, she smiles. “Recognize this witch?” She says as she pulls the trigger, blowing a hole in the old woman, sending her crashing across the room, and into a bloody heap into the floor.

    “My family is now avenged,” she says, as the old woman suddenly leaps into the air, and crashes into her.

    “Ya gonna die now child, ya gone and wrecked this here body, an now me be needing a new one!” She screams as she pulls a bone handled blade from her dress, driving it into Contessa’s stomach.

    “W-W-What are you, you doing?” She stammers.

    “What I did ta ya great-great grand nanny and hers before that girly, how’d ya think an old woman like me be surviving so long in dying skins? I knew who ya were as soon as ya walked through me door, fate me call it,” she says with a chuckle. “Been waiting for one of ya ta come, and now ain’t no letting go of ya girl, ya here ta stay now, been hunting ya for ta long, ta just let ya go,” the old woman says as she digs the knife into the girls forehead, and slowly begins slicing it across her face, the girl screams out in agony.

  • Day 361 – Bang Goes The Drum – 50 Word Story

    Day 361 – Bang Goes The Drum – 50 Word Story

    “Ain’t no letting go of ya girl, ya here ta stay now, been hunting ya for ta long, ta just let ya go,” the old woman says as she digs the knife into the girls forehead, and slowly begins slicing it across her face, the girl screams out in agony.

     

    This 50 word story was originally published in issue 287 of Fear In Fear Magazine under the name Bang Goes The Drum, and posted here on the 26th of September under the name Paid, the short was expanded upon the same day, to read the expanded version, you can go HERE.

    You’re more than welcome, as always if inspiration hits, to expand the story yourself, all I ask is that you post a link in the comments below so I can showcase it on the blog.

  • Daily Grind – Sleep

    Daily Grind – Sleep

    I finally, after days, almost a week in fact, found the salvation of sleep. But, it did not come to me gently, honestly I regret it ever happening now.

    When I closed my eyes, and drifted off into that unknown bliss, I was taken on a journey, one that had no purpose, only to pry more of my fractured mind away.

    I was somewhere, in the mist of a story, strange children ran riot, they were like beasts, small, growing, alike each one. I slayed them, as many as I could, and other weird and unusual creatures, they attacked me, ripped, pulled, and then he came, their leader.

    He was, almost like me, not that much different, maybe, like I used to be, when I was whole. He told me to leave his children, to go, before he struck me down, I held onto my weapon, a rake, but I used it to bash their heads in, so it was a weapon of sorts.

    More of them appeared, soon he was surrounded by his clones, ranging in sizes and ages, but they all looked like him, their face, that of an adult, while their bodies were of child.

    I made the decision to leave, to escape while I could, I realized for the first time since this started that it was not I who had been fighting them, but another, I was on the outside, just hovering by his side, watching.

    When I woke my heart was beating, my skin wet, as the sweat dripped off it, only 5 minutes had passed, 5 minutes that seemed like an eternity, but rest was not given, it was an uneasy 5 minutes, being awake would’ve caused less stress.

    I did not sleep again, pacing the house, checking each room, for unwanted visitors, but nothing else happened, it was as it always has been.

    But, I feel a change coming, I feel something birthing.

    But what?

    What is coming?

     

  • 5

    5

    Blood drips,

    blood flows,

    from the rips in their skins,

    I know you see them,

    I know you can taste it,

    the thickness,

    the warmth,

    it empties,

    but yet their hearts still beat,

    like straws in empty cups,

    sucking up the last few drops,

    and then,

    no more,

    silence,

    welcome to my home,

    welcome to the darkness that I live in,

    welcome to your end,

    don’t believe his words,

    don’t believe his lies,

    there is no more to write,

    there is only goodbye.

  • My Darkness – Wrapped In Words

    My Darkness – Wrapped In Words

    My darkness cries for forgiveness,

    as it swallows all I am,

    making me something new and wrong,

    or was this me all along?

  • Day 360 – The Answer To Your Call – 50 Word Story Expanded

    Day 360 – The Answer To Your Call – 50 Word Story Expanded

    If you want to know how this story started, you can read about it HERE.

     

    “I don’t know how I can thank you, everything you’ve done today will not be forgotten,” he says, looking up at him, tears running down his cheeks.

    “I’m not being generous here sport, this is what you’d call, a building experience for everyone,” he says with an uncomfortable, wry smile.

    “A building experience? Wh-What do you mean by that?”

    “I mean a lot of thing Merv, a lot of things,” he says as he crouches down by his side. “You see, where I come from, it’s not that far, but, it takes a few days traveling to get there, we do things a bit differently than you do up here. Firstly, and probably the most important note to make,” he says grinning broadly, “is that we never do anything for nothing, so, I expect to get something out of all this.”

    “Y-You want to be PAID?”

    He laughs, “Mate, and don’t take me as being judgmental or anything here, but saving someone’s life requires a hell of a lot more than you could ever afford to pay.”

    “W-What do you want?”

    He places a large, rough hand on his knees and squeezes, nodding towards the two girls huddled in the corner, “We can start with them, and work out way up,” the girls instantly begin to scream loudly, he stares at the man mortified.

    “N-N-No, you, you can’t, I-I-I, I…”

    The man grabs him by the throat and lifts him high into the air, “This ain’t a fucking democracy friend, this is a fucking totalitarian dictatorships, and I’m the man in charge, so you can either abide by my rules or suffer punishment. Your call Kojak, bow down or go down, either way,” he says slamming the man to his knees, “someone’s sucking my cock.”

    “Y-Y-You, you can’t be serious?”

    “I am deadly fucking serious my little dakka, so what’s it going to be? You gonna man up for the women, take it for the team?” he says undoing his belt, and slowly unzipping his fly. “Or, are they going to pay the government tax?”

    He quickly looks back over to the girls, they both look terrified, then nervously back at the man, swallows a mouthful of dry air, and closes his eyes tightly, “Okay, okay, I’ll do it, just promise me you won’t hurt them?” He says as he opens his mouth wide, waiting for the man to do his deed, but, instead he begins laughing.

    “Man, you sure do look silly, sitting there thinking I’d really expect YOU to suck my cock, boy you are one looney bastard,” he says through fits of laugh.

    He let’s out a sigh of relief, allowing himself to smile nervously, “Y-Y-You really had me going there, I actually thought you were serious,” he says wiping the sweat from his forehead.

    “Oh mate I am, but I ain’t no homosexual, so there ain’t no way you’re  touching my cock, but them girls, well, they’re a different kettle of fish,” he says as he knocks him to the ground. The last sounds he hears before the darkness takes him are the girls cries of terror, and the man’s wicked laugh.

  • Day 360 – The Answer To Your Call – 50 Word Story

    Day 360 – The Answer To Your Call – 50 Word Story

    The next story that was converted into a 50 word story originally appeared in issue 421 of Fear In Fear Magazine under the name The Answer To Your Call, you can read the short that was posted below.

     

    “I don’t know how I can thank you, everything you’ve done today will not be forgotten,” he says, looking up at him, tears running down his cheeks.

    “I’m not being generous here sport, this is what you’d call, a building experience for everyone,” he says with a uncomfortable, wry smile.

     

    You can go HERE to read the expanded version of this story.

    You’re more than welcome, as always if inspiration hits, to expand the story yourself, all I ask is that you post a link in the comments below so I can showcase it on the blog.
    Marty