TRIUMPH

TRIUMPH

(Patterson, N.J.)

By the fact that my name is Mistress Allison Lorraine Hardy,

I declare that I have killed you over and over and over again, too many times!

Oh sure, you are one of the eternal feral monsters of the Midnight Lunar Darkness...

But, I am a Warrior Of The Midday Solar Brightness... and I always triumph over evil!

ALH 

BETTER THERE THAN HERE

BETTER THERE THAN HERE

The ghost that lives in my attic creaks around up there every long night.

I asked it to stop the moaning and the creaking several times by shouting out my request.

Then, a month ago, I used my ladder to climb up there... bad idea!

It warned me sternly, "Would you rather me be up here, or in your bedroom?"

RLJ

HOWLERS AT THE MOON

HOWLERS AT THE MOON

It is midnight again and they are calling me out into the cool darkness of this fall night.

The moon is so full of silver that it looks like a planet sized, mercury filled mirror.

Crazy then, that silver is the metal that means instant death to the howlers at the moon!

I will face then one night... not tonight... because I am not ready for the pain of being turned!

RLJ

A BEAUTIFUL DEATH

A BEAUTIFUL DEATH

She is so beautiful that she bends the reality of men's nighttime thoughts.

Her stark azure eyes suck a little bit of men's souls when she stares at them.

It really was too bad that she was only interested in their rich red blood.

But men died in willing ecstasy as she dug her claws in their backs while draining them dry!

RLJ

FIRST INSTINCTS

FIRST INSTINCTS

Running Bear tracked the white men for days through the bush before finally making contact with them.

He approached them carefully because he knew white men could shoot first, then ask questions.

He should have gone with his first instincts... they did not shoot him, but beat him mercilessly to death!

And the last words he remembered, in their strange language, was "Kill the dirty Redskin!"

RLJ

INFECTED

INFECTED

The Air France airplane was full of passengers on their way from Guinea to Paris.

All passengers are heavily screened for possible terrorist ties and views.

Everyone passed scrutiny... even the 13 passengers with the coughs and the pale skin --

 All consumed bush meat three nights before... now infected with Ebola... on their way to Europe!

RLJ

BODY CHECK

BODY CHECK

(Earl Cantrell's final words?)

The weakness first started in both of my legs two days ago... I could barely walk.

When I woke up this morning in my bed, I was completely paralyzed!

I know what the problem is... I’ve been bitten by a tick -- it is Tick Paralysis!

My breathing has almost stopped, just as I’m promising god to never go Deer hunting again!

RLJ

THE DEAD DO NOT ALWAYS STAY DEAD

THE DEAD DO NOT ALWAYS STAY DEAD

You know... it isn't all bad times and death by monster bite in the Horrorwalker World.

I'm Mary O'Brian and I'm here to tell you I am a prime witness to that possibility.

My only brother, my best friend in life, died three years ago of painful throat cancer.

Guess what, he returned from the dead two nights ago... and oh, what fun we are having.

RLJ

SPOILED TO DEATH

SPOILED TO DEATH

How many close calls did the rich and spoiled Caldwell Cumberbatch create for himself...

Before the Demon Claws of fate caught him and punished him for his drunk driving folly?

Well, this last time, he crashed his car off the icy Aspen side road... into a hidden ravine.

He is alone, the show is falling hard, his ankles are broken... and the wolves have found him!

RLJ

CHEATER

CHEATER

... Man, I should have listened to my wife when she told me to stop my cheating ways.

But as usual, a pretty face on a pretty body... with a willing personality... I lose my mind.

It didn't mean a thing to my warped ethics when Rose met me under the East Bridge that midnight...

And now a year has passed as my trapped body feeds her blood plasma needs every dark night! ...

RLJ

WHAT COMES AFTER THE KISS

WHAT COMES AFTER THE KISS

Mark kissed her on the lips as she rubbed her gentle left hand up and down his bare back.

Sarah's skin reacted to his kiss by shivering as her senses exploded with cold electricity.

Even though her body was bloodless and sheet white, she needed more than just his touch.

He willingly gave in to the pain of her feeding... even though she would nearly kill him, again!

RLJ

THE DEAD MEMORY

THE DEAD MEMORY

I sometimes cry for me every once in a decade, or two.

The sad date that brings a tear to my eyes is January, 21st.

I might cry because I no longer can remember the origin of my humanity!

What a bitch it is to have been turned into a nightmare of the moon in 1774!

RLJ

From The First Time To The Last Time

From The First Time To The Last Time

The first time you were captured and forcefully penetrated,

The vicious act was bloody and hard and harsh and terrifying!

But now that the fear has changed into ecstatic undead joy...

The pain is now the best kind of plasma sucking horror!

RLJ

A GLIMPSE INTO THE APOCALYPSE

A GLIMPSE INTO THE APOCALYPSE

OK, world... so you want to see what a modern apocalypse really looks like?

You, with your terrorism and your religious bastardization and your insanity...

Your disrespect for your women and your hatred of life and your embracing of death!

Let’s just drop this NUKE upon your religious core and let your God sort the aftermath! 

RLJ

THE RAVEN TAKES THE SPOILS

To the Raven, pecking at the food source in the carcass rotting on the dusty ground,

This circular sphere filled with the tasty goo was simply too delicious to leave uneaten.

Detective Harrington Palmer was shocked sick by the attitude of the defiant black bird...

As he threw up on the side, watching the awful bird eat the human eye with animal passion!

RLJ

NIGHTMARE

NIGHTMARE

I abruptly awakened from my nightmare in a cold sweat panic of horror and terror!

I dreamed I had just lived 55 nightmarish years as a black man in a racist country!

I dreamed the insane government gave all the people open access to weapons and ammo!

First died the cops, then died the “Man,” then died all the Negroes -- and it is no dream!

RLJ

REVENGE IS A NASTY MONSTER

Peter Marks should have never pushed her anger to the extreme breaking point.

We warned him that deep down dirty southern girls should not be fucked with.

The cops say he struck her across her face hard enough to leave an imprint...

And she sent him straight to hell with a boiling pot of grits poured into his lap!

RLJ

A BULLET THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR

A BULLET THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR

Holy spit, that hurt like a motherfucker!

My brain slowed down the moment in time to a Phantom Camera second!

It crashed through my door and flattened me as it struck me in my chest...

Another goddamn NRA fuck you, America, bullet through the front door!

RLJ

THE TRUTH IN THE DARKNESS

The Paxton brothers warned me that this rotting old mansion is haunted by mean ghosts.

I scoffed at their silly folly... entering to explore this place three night's past -- midnight hour.

I crashed through the rotted kitchen floor... landing two levels down upon two broken legs.
By now I know the truth... I see one ghost -- Death waiting in the dark corner to claim my soul!

RLJ

THE ANNIVERSARY GIFT

THE ANNIVERSARY GIFT

In the insect loudness of the midnight darkness of that most humid North Carolina night...

They dragged Staler Bryant from his home claiming he had touched Ms. Betty earlier today.

He protested his innocence to god almighty... all the way to the hanging tree!

And now, 50 years later, he is digging his way out of the black forest soil seeking revenge!

RLJ

BREATHLESS

BREATHLESS

I should have taken a gulp of air before I dived!

I should have considered what is beneath the surface!

My foot is stuck tight in the sand and rock!

And now I am quite simply... breathless!

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