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A Reel Trail
by Alyson Faye
He always worked
the night shift –
lonely, he found her
in an alley.
For his film
he spliced her
into a double exposure
dubbed her ‘Luna’,
for by moonlight
he had created her.
.
She was voiceless,
soul less,
raven-furred,
a pair of night travellers
feasting on
each other’s fantasies,
fast transformed
into urban myths.
.
Some said –
he fed her on human flesh;
others said –
Luna brought them to him –
for she was a powerful, hungry
huntress.
.
Underground
they hid out,
and in cellars
his and Luna’s film
flickered across
scabby walls
watched by the dying
and the dead,
whose lips were sealed.
.
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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