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Poem / Poetry

August 04, 2022

Reads: 41

Comments: 3

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

Nightmares don't scare me; I welcome them; I have the power to mould my nightmares into submission. But this one was... different! Read More

Tags: nightmare, voice, grim, control, miegrat

I had an audition for a film reflecting the Yorkshire Ripper and I had to listen to audios of the womens voices of that time. After listening to their encounters with him, I wrote this as a song then turned it into a poem. Read More

Tags: nightmare, nightmares, disfigured, distorted, twistednight

What happens when an ancient prototype Dreamcatcher gets filled up? It bursts, taking the dreamer to an alternate world where nightmares are the order of the day. Read More

Tags: death, life, nightmare, dream, spirit, catcher, indian

WEB OF NIGHTMARES should scare the living hell out of you! Read More

Tags: nightmare, uncertainty, anxiety, trouble, turmoil

nighttime angst Read More

Tags: terror, nightmare, dreams, subconscious

A personal review of Tony Powell's (The Ghost Bull) "Nightmare at Hue." A real nightmare for anyone who dares to remember. Read More

Tags: nightmare, vietnam, read, hue, absorbing

Poem / Poetry

February 16, 2022

A poem about a plague of nightmares that infest the mind. Read More

Tags: nightmare, dreams, trauma

A nightmare, quick yet jarring Read More

Tags: nightmare

Someone should make people understand that you need to use a perfect vision to see imperfect people? And this is where I lacked. In whatever choice of yours, we are so near yet so far like always. Read More

Tags: nightmare, belief, beautiful, cherished, threat

The woods aren't so friendly at night Read More

Tags: dark, horror, nightmare, unknown, woods

For many, Christmas is not the remembrance of a prophecy fulfilled. It is not a time to look towards the sky and imagine the magic of the Star of Bethlehem, or to envision the Magi on camels, crossing the great lands of ancient times, in search of the promise of… Read More

Tags: war, nightmare, christmas, sorrow, screams

Eighth of eight. Read More

Tags: dark, nightmare, lightless, immure

Seventh of eight. Read More

Tags: music, nightmare, sound, glass, cage

Sixth of eight. Read More

Tags: nightmare, poison, rose, thorns

Fifth of eight. Read More

Tags: nightmare, path, stone, trail, cobblestone

4th of eight Read More

Tags: nightmare, web, spider, gorge

3rd of eight Read More

Tags: nightmare, fog, snake, valley

The second of eight Read More

Tags: nightmare, hollow, mist

First of eight Read More

Tags: poem, nightmare

Tags: nightmare, dream, dentist, dentist-appointment

Plot Kate Wilson is a reporter. Kate starts investigating the mysterious death of people. Annie Hart is Kate’s friend. Annie’s father has been keeping a secret. Cindy Mill’s brother Ryan has been found dead. The police think Ryan’s death was an accident. James Newton is investigating his death. Read More

Tags: nightmare, past, sleep, punish, crimes.-revenge

Short Story / Science Fiction

October 17, 2021

Reads: 219

Comments: 4

Shelves: 1

The Review Chain House

This is for the review chain's mental health contest and my attempt at subverting the "medications are useless" troupe, particularly prevalent in sci-fi and fantasy, and instead focusing on how they can help characters in an imaginative scenario (instead of the "meds were blocking your powers" or "your mental illness… Read More

Tags: nightmare, monsters, demons, delusion

Book / Horror

October 12, 2021

Reads: 1213

Comments: 1

The Booksie Classic House

The House of Dark Skulls is not the place for teenagers to go during Halloween. When Alison Blanchard, and her friends, go there, they meet a strange girl who is holding a skull, and into the Black Arts. The new version of the old horror novel by Robert Helliger. Read More

Tags: horror, gothic, nightmare, girl, skulls

Short Story / Horror

October 08, 2021

Reads: 198

Comments: 1

Shelves: 1

The Booksie Classic House

A nightmare leads a man down memory lane to revisit a lost childhood friend and events that make him both smile and scream. Read More

Tags: halloween, nightmare, pre-teen, the-70s

Tags: childhood, nightmare, dreams, dysfunction, hawaii

A little drabble about a girl who seeks comfort after awaking from a loud crash of thunder. Read More

Tags: nightmare, comfort, thunder, short-story, night-terrors

As a young boy of 15, living in a valley bordering Mexico, I was coming of age. I was adventurous and curious, like most other boys by age back then. It was the era of rock and roll, Friday night football, and cruising down main street with your buddies. Read More

Tags: nightmare, vietnam, dream, valley

A girl lives a nightmare the day before Christmas. What will happen? Read More

Tags: nightmare

2020’s nightmare vision Is a vision that brings us pain, While people starve in Melbourne Town Rudd procrastinates again. Read More

Tags: politics, nightmare, rudd

It is when nightmares become real that the ugliness that lies beneath the sanity of our humanity begins to grow and fester inside the heart and soul of men. Read More

Tags: nightmare, reality, innocence, sanity

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