Emotion: Fear

A Darkened Shape of Something in the Light

The past is alive and up to its old tricks.

November 15, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Big Empty Bed

The size of loneliness.

September 7, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Poetry/Prose

Bloom

The winds of Spring bring with them the clouds of fear.

April 15, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Bong Hits before Bed

Hits from the bong before bed in high school lead to heightened geometry skills and paranoia.

May 2, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Come with me to my Sabbat

When I first transvexed into the realm of my sabbat.

October 4, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Curled up on the Floor... Birth

How did I get here curled up on the floor? (Word count: 993)

November 2, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Death Before Sleeping

Fatal dreams before I slumber.

December 28, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Dream

Death and the Johanna Clones

Flawed clones seek euthanasia.

October 12, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Dream

Dream House and the Spirit of Murder

The house with the fancy bathroom and the psychopath roommate.

June 25, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Flight Attendants Suffer from a Nuclear Metamorphosis

In a dream, my school class studies flight attendants transformed by nuclear explosions.

April 12, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Dream

Four Macabre Miniatures

Four very short tales of the macabre about a knife, a tongue, an angel, and a cliff-side murder.

October 2, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Fiction

I am the Axis

Poem of a despot.

February 1, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Poetry/Prose

My Dreams are the Devil’s Dreams

How the Devil go into my dreams.

September 24, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Please Allow Me to Whine Over my Memoir for a Moment

Whining about the difficulty of writing a memoir about a painful life.

November 26, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Journal Entry

Procrastination

The physics of procrastination.

May 6, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Journal Entry

Spiders in the Dark

After spending the day with tarantula in glass jars scattered around the house, the imagination has plenty of fuel for fear in the dark.

September 10, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Statues and Spirits

Tales of Devil Spirits in the statues in the basement at Rome City send us kids down to see for ourselves.

March 7, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

Terrible Tuesday

On Terrible Tuesday, April 10, 1979, an F4 sized tornado attacked Wichita Falls, Texas. But according to The Way, the devil did it.

September 3, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Dangerous Narrows

The cost of life’s adventures.

March 28, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Journal Entry

The Dark Blue Pages

Here, under the dark blue waters of the Loch.

August 27, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Determining Dogs of Downsizing

A poignant dream in the time of a corporate downsize.

August 24, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Dream

The Epitaph

The price of forsaken love.

October 26, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Poetry/Prose

The Executioner’s Invoice

A bill for services rendered at a witch’s execution.

October 22, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Fiction

The Fever

A high fever and talk of spirits bring on a hallucination.

April 16, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Ghost of Vince Margolis

What is left behind when a man disappears.

January 4, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Fiction

The Library

Trying to clean the library of haunting memories.

April 4, 2007 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Poetry/Prose

The Overdose

An overdose, a promise to God, and a rescue. (Word count: 27,306)

November 16, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Subterranean

In a dream, an eerie family lures me into an underground cavern for a frightening encounter.

October 8, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Dream

The Tower

Climbing an old water tower on a 50 cent bet.

August 9, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Undeniable and Unexplainable Event

An undeniable and unexplainable supernatural event on the stairs of my former Texas home.

October 23, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Creative Nonfiction

The Woman in the Ruins

A wounded soldier and a lonely woman meet in the ruins of war.

February 26, 2006 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Fiction

When I Fall

The art of saving oneself.

August 10, 2005 | Emotion: Fear | Type: Poetry/Prose