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The Hanged Girl – Nine

Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: Nic Neish ‘I can’t remember all the dream,’ Lisa told Susan over a mid-week lunch break, ‘Or nightmare, because I think it was that. So strange. I think it was a nightmare but I also think most of the bad parts I’ve blocked out.’ ‘Apart from the…

The Hanged Girl – Eight

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? Image credit: djgis ‘We have another artist in our midst!’ The voice was sneering, not complimentary, and Mandy knew the voice. It was a voice she had quickly learned to dread, coming from a person she did her level best to avoid as much as possible. But school…

Flavour of Spite – Eight

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Image credit: aradaphotography Violet was frightened it seemed, and that was not my intention. I had wanted our first real encounter, in her new home, to be one of explanation, but slowly growing appreciation, even the first brief buds of joy. I had wanted her to understand, but then…

The Hanged Girl Seven

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? Image credit: sellingpix The next morning Lisa would only remember fragments of her nightmare. She would think this a blessing, but the shadows of memory and disconnection would tug at her sensibility, suggesting in low whispers that she really should remember. That it was important somehow. And she…

The Flavour of Spite Seven

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Image credit: Susan Montgomery She wakes from a dis-orienting dream, and the strange light around her – so unfamiliar, though as she wakes it is hard to fully fathom why – makes her blink rapidly. Her eyelids are butterflies frightened by the wind. She was dreaming, of course, though…

The Hanged Girl Six

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? Image credit: Andrey Bayda For a reputedly haunted house, number 6 Mercy Lane as very beguiling indeed. The moment Damien opened the door to them Lisa and Mandy were literally flooded with a warm light from the hallway, seemingly reaching out into the early twilight haze like a…

The Flavour of Spite – Five

Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? Image credit: Bondarenko The readiness is all. I have a weakness here, I have to admit. My conditioning has had this impact, this effect, where my mind finds it hard to settle for long enough to truly plan and achieve. This has not been a problem in my…

The Hanged Girl – Three

Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
Image credit: Sunny Forest ‘Sheesh!’ Susan exclaimed ,almost spilling her coffee, ‘I didn’t realise you’d move into that street, and so close to that house!’ It was Saturday morning, the first weekend after her first week on the new job, and Lisa finally had a chance to catch up…

The Flavour of Spite – Three

Originally posted on The Darker Realms:
? ? ? Image credit: lassedesignen I had the nightmare again. I woke shaking around 3am, the witching hour, the hour when most people suicide, according to some article I read many years before. It is the hour when the temperature is coldest, and so your body is chilled.…

The Hanged Girl – Two

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? ? ? Image credit: Nilo It’s good to be thrown in at the deep end, Lisa told herself silently, that way you learn to swim so much more quickly. The cause of her reverie was being left alone to mind the shop by her far more experienced colleague…

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