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a person is walking through a dark tunnel with a light coming out of the end of the tunnel . ALT: a person is walking through a dark tunnel with a light coming out of the end of the tunnel .

The sewer.
They forgot about the sewer!
Slipping under a grate I crawl through filth.
In the dark I struggle to suppress my claustrophobic nightmares.
I see a way out.
An #escape.
I punch through until my hands bleed,
To where my captors are waiting for me...

#horrorprompt #vsshorror

a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a bookshelf ALT: a man in a plaid shirt is sitting in front of a bookshelf

I #yearn to be free.
To slip my bonds, and escape.
Struggling, I manage to loosen my hand and untie the ropes.
Massaging the feeling back into my limbs,
I let another yearning take hold.
I pick up the blade.
Their are rules to the game.
Only one of us can survive.
#horrorprompt

You'll want the daylight
Rid yourself of night
You'll yearn for surrender
In your dwindling life
Hell has it's fury
Heaven it's vengeance
You are stuck in limbo
Ready to take a chance
Love is a falsehood
Hate is eminent
You're imagining
Life better spent

#horrorprompt

Prompt no. 1913: escape

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Big thanks to Nicole Briggs for sparking today's terror!

Prompt no. 1481: ruins

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It's easy to get caught up in all the euphoric debauchery.

But soon? holding darkness, more of it; already a part of you and me.

Haunted but holy? per the arch nemesis on the premises!

Moved beyond the vestibule making empty promises.

#firewords280, #Amatory, #wildwickedwords, #horrorprompt

Those looks of hatred
command the unthinkable
to be realised.

#haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #baleful

In the #vestibule
between the here and there,
shadows wait and languish
pulling out their angel hair.

#horrorprompt #poem #poetry
#AmWriting but figured it's my word, I'd best compose at least a #rhyme.... such a tasty word if I do say so myself. 😊

Prompt no. 1912: yearn

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Big thanks to BLT for sparking today's terror!

Prompt no. 1480: dissect

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You dead-tired in the rain, unable to outpace a zombie. Someone opens up their vestibule, gun trained on you.
They bolt the second door.
The zombie scratches at glazed glass while you sit still. Through the glass, sun- and rainbow-light emerge - go just as quickly.
#horrorprompt #vss365 #rainbow

an empty subway car with a red ceiling ALT: an empty subway car with a red ceiling

Trapped between carriages,
I see twisted faces pressed against the glass.
Bloodstained fingernails rip and tear,
Rotting corpses chew at the #vestibule doors.
The train rolls on.
The city is close, I see it.
I will be overrun.
There is no choice
I have to jump.
#horrorprompt

What's really going on? negotiations occurring for a piece of your mind?

Soon you lost it! with plenty of unwritten goodbyes from the shady kind.

The stippled architecture hid loopholes!

No participation trophies for the lost souls.

#FairyTalePoets, #thepenflows, #firewords280, #horrorprompt

The oathbreaker waits
sentencing from the dark one.
Soul to be riven.

#haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #vowsofpain

Prompt no. 1911: vestibule

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Prompt no. 1479: baleful

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a strange spiderlike creature emerges from the ground at the centre of a stone circle arranged on dusty, dry earth

#rustclaw observed this strange #spiderlike creature emerging from the parched earth at the centre of a stone circle

could they be an ally?

#horrorprompt #skypoets #vss #vssfantasy #vss365 #vssdaily #vsspic

Refrain from the cure
for we quite like the undead.
Let them keep feasting.

#haikuhorrorprompt #haiku #reluctant

a black-eyed susan with one winking eye

a black-eyed susan with two glaring eyes glistening angrily with the juices of trapped bumblebees

black-eyed susan winks
another bumble captured
plaintive buzz grows still

#allflowersaremonsters
#flower #macro #photography
#dailyhaikuprompt #fantaiku #haiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #haikuhorrorprompt #micropoetry #poetry #scifaiku #scifaikusaturday #senryu #senryusunday #skypoets

romeodile trysting at the water's edge julietgator

#completethehaiga 109

#dailyhaikuprompt #fantaiku #haiku #haikuchallenge #haikufeels #haikuhorrorprompt #micropoetry #poetry #scifaiku #scifaikusaturday #senryu #senryusunday

White Walker

Dirt caked fingernails
Gouged soft flesh. My back rubbed raw
On #rough wooden floors

#haiku
#HaikuHorrorPrompt

#haikuhorrorprompt 1477 Reluctant

Reluctant at first
to pull the trigger, but God's
power seduces

#haiku
#AmericanFascist
#ICE
#CPB
#NFNE
#JimmyGuerrero

moonlit prairie dance
#reluctant undertaker
clings to dead romance

#haiku #haikuhorrorprompt #poem #poetry #writing

Prompt no. 1910: trophies

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Big thanks to Jaime for sparking today's terror!

Prompt no. 1478: vows of pain

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The very punchable and unforgettably irritating face of Stephen Miller

#Froward was his bastard name
and rightly earned, his claim to fame
bequeathed to him, by his quite insane
moon-faced, howling father.

#horrorprompt #poem #poetry #writing #vsshorror

Words From Behind The Mask Horror writing prompts, scary stories and poetry.

1 spot left for August! Submit your prompt words today. wordsfrombehindthemask.com

They claim to be my children.
They wear the faces of the people in the photographs I don't remember hanging on my wall. They plead their love for me, but I have never had a child.
Even my reflection lies; saggy and worn?
No, a trick.
I'll wake up from this, soon.
I hope.
#horrorprompt degradation

Illusions unfold leading to their spirit's degradation.

Soon some are reading all these press leaks attacking their reputation!

That malevolent tome exhibited? oh yes, it seemed to hit home!

Some are foul with it just evil ones doing harm.

#horrorprompt, #vssmagic, #WeirdMicro, #Amatory

She begged the dark for mercy, it listened, amused. The degradation had begun long before the blade. Her hope rotting, unaware the end was already inside her.

#horrorprompt #degradation
#poetry #haiku #micropoetry #brevity #art of #writing #oddlyme