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Don’t Leave Me

January 25, 2021January 24, 2021 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

Her own anger had begun to surface. Did he think this was a joke? He turned to face her, and the breath was driven from her lungs when she looked at him.

Posted in PoemsTagged flash fiction, forest, horror, short story, skinwalker, story

Unearthed

January 14, 2021January 13, 2021 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

All that would ever mean anything breathed in that world away from light...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, poetry, reflection, searching, story, writing

Baptism

January 11, 2021January 13, 2021 Mitchel David Ring13 Comments

Over the eastern plains a storm is born, herald of the shadowed morning at the beginning of the darkest days...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, poetry, storm, story, war, writing

Infernal

January 5, 2021January 5, 2021 Mitchel David Ring4 Comments

Behind a wall of flame and shadow, upon a throne of smoke, kings one by one enact their infernal rule...

Posted in PoemsTagged destruction, fire, horror, poetry, story, writing

Woven Ritual

November 24, 2020November 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring2 Comments

These phantoms come crawling out of shadow eyes like dead stars, mouths twisted into smiles...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, magic, poetry, ritual, story, writing

Where Time Stopped

November 21, 2020November 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring7 Comments

Something about this place feels broken...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, poetry, story, time, writing

Valhalla

September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 Mitchel David Ring9 Comments

Fallen on the field before the god of war and ready to rise again with the morning sun, the flame burns brightest...

Posted in PoemsTagged fire, game, horror, poetry, story, writing

Severed

August 31, 2020August 30, 2020 Mitchel David Ring8 Comments

These words I know as if they’ve dissolved into me, ink injected into my bloodstream...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, mystery, poetry, story, storytelling, writing

What the Mountains Knew

August 7, 2020August 6, 2020 Mitchel David Ring6 Comments

Feast on it, this fresh blood of a world slain, and know what beauty and what horror lived here where the fire burned brightest...

Posted in PoemsTagged fire, horror, music, poetry, story, writing

The Hanged Man

July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 Mitchel David Ring10 Comments

The clouds that morning were the kind that said someone, somewhere, had been hanged in the night.

Posted in Poems, StoriesTagged dark, horror, invisible, poetry, prose, writing

A Voice Softly Calling

June 25, 2020June 24, 2020 Mitchel David Ring11 Comments

This is the emptiness that brings absolution, the long-sought silence, the deep breath before a blind leap...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, voices, writing

Slow Circles

June 22, 2020June 21, 2020 Mitchel David Ring18 Comments

It’s always night when new horrors come. Only in the hours between consciousness, the dreamwalker’s realm...

Posted in PoemsTagged consciousness, horror, memory, nightmare, poetry, writing

Verses

June 19, 2020June 18, 2020 Mitchel David Ring12 Comments

And it came to pass that shadows fell, and the people did bow before the darkness...

Posted in PoemsTagged darkness, horror, journey, poetry, promise, writing

Murky Waters

June 13, 2020June 12, 2020 Mitchel David Ring1 Comment

Like a needle through flesh threading it all back together, piece by piece into a song of murky waters...

Posted in PoemsTagged freedom, horror, nightmare, poetry, secrets, writing

Whisper in the Dark

May 6, 2020May 5, 2020 Mitchel David Ring14 Comments

Some nights I would come to in a different bed, woken by a word whispered in the dark...

Posted in PoemsTagged horror, nightmare, poetry, silence, sleep, writing

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