Friday 24 January 2014

'Love Among the Ruins' now available in 'Haiku of the Dead' - new from Dreamscape Press


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My haiku 'Love Among the Ruins' appears in 'Haiku of the Dead', newly published by Dreamscape Press

Poetry to eat your brains. "Haiku of the Dead" is an anthology that pieces together a warm-hearted story of guts and gore. Told through the imagistic language of haiku, every flesh-ripping moment of the zombie apocalypse is covered, from dawn to demise. Thirty-five narrators take the readers through infested streets and graveyards from the points of view of both survivors and the undead. With haiku from authors around the world, including Adrian George Nicolae, Alyssa Black, Andrew Miller, Betty Villareal, Bruce Harris, Cathy Bryant, Chris Fradkin, Christopher Evans, Clarice Radrick, Colin M. Drysdale, Colin W. Campbell, David Revilla, David S. Pointer, Donald Raymond, Fanni Suto, Irene Smith, Jason Kirk, Jennifer Courtney, Jessica McHugh, John McCarthy, K. R. Smith, Laura Huntley, Marie Churchman, Mathias Jansson, Matt Fallaize, Matthew Wilson, Nick Johns, Olivia Arieti, Pattie Flint, Robert E. Petras, Sarah Winn, Seth Frederiksen, Sonja Johanson, Tim McLafferty, and Winston H. Plowes. 
 On sale now from Amazon
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If You Go Down to the Woods Today...


   



If You Go Down to the Woods Today...

“Come back, you idiot!”
“One photo, we’re made for life! If we get close enough.”
“We got close before. It ripped the damned car’s wheels off!”
“...then ran for Johnson’s farm. Old bastard’s experiments finally produced something really weird.”
“Where’s the tracks?”
“What?”
Tracks, on the path...”
“Tracks schmacks. C’mon.”
“Shit! Billy - above you!”

55 words
@nickjohns999

This story was written for Lisa McCourt-Hollar's 55 Word Challenge 3/14

Friday 17 January 2014

The Sound of Silence



The Sound of Silence


He had been a storm. Thunder followed him. The booming collapse of singularities as he banished them and all their chattels had been enough for him back then. Vengeance was less satisfying than he had imagined in the heat of his rage. All he had now was eternal echoes of thunder in the empty streets.

55 words
@nickjohns999

This story was written for Lisa McCourt-Hollar's 55 word challenge.
It received an honourable mention from judge Jeff Hollar, who said -
Its exceptionally difficult with such a minimal word count to craft a complete story. That being said, Nick did the next best thing and established a coherent and continuous overall emotion/tone that was truly ominous. Spooky!