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Rabbit Skin
by Alyson Faye

Skin me
strip me
blood me
hunt me –

once prey
now predator,
Queen to
your pawn –
make your move.

I hear your
lungs breathing
in the dusty,
dying crevices
of this villa’s
carcass.

You stink of
sweat
pheromones
adrenaline
and rage.

I will dress
in your skin,
feast on
your flesh.

I am Other –
blinded
dumb
and hooded

I taste your
DNA crumbs
dancing –
in the air

and I am –
coming  . . .

Fiction © Copyright Alyson Faye
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com

More from Alyson Faye:

The Lost Girl & Spindleshanks

The Lost Girl
A nailed-up door. An inheritance which comes with a ghost. A missing girl. A fifty-year-old mystery. Parapsychologist Berkley Osgood is hired to investigate. What he uncovers reveals secrets the living want to hide and the dead will never forgive.

Spindleshanks
Adam is having nightmares about a skeletal shadow figure, who he calls Spindleshanks. Soon his whole class are sharing the same nightmare. Adam’s dad, Rob, knows that Spindleshanks can’t be real. But is he? One terrible night Rob has to face his son’s nightmare creature and fight for his son’s life. What would you sacrifice to have your child back safe?

“A decent two-for-one. Alyson Faye brings the engaging and eerie in equal measure.” CC Adams – horror / dark fiction author

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