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Night of the Dead
by A.F. Stewart
In the twilight of the slinking gloom
and the weight of unnerving silence
a heady, floral scent wandered
from withered roses past the blush,
vainly clinging to moribund vines;
sad, decaying husks of beauty
.
They shrivel over long dusty bones
still mouldering within their graves,
inscrutable beneath the ebbing sun
Brittle remnants entwined with thorns
entwined in fragile, desiccated petals
and bitter, lingering spirits, abiding
.
Ghosts sustained by love annihilated,
shredded, by an abiding storm of hate
propelling them into their illicit grave
Fury seething, anchored by pain,
howling against the raging tempest,
roaming upon the bleakest of nights
.
Ascending like mist from the graveyard,
a frigid whisper in the land of the living
spectral fingers grasping for the unholy
under the deluge of their silent screams
as the bodies fall, as the cruel expire
in their dance of death, their retribution
.
Fiction © Copyright A.F. Stewart
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com
More from A.F. Stewart:
Visions and Nightmares
Tragedy spares no one… and takes no prisoners.
In the twilight shadows, secrets are revealed past the whispers of madness.
Wander into the realm of the old gods with Elenora, where humanity and marriage are a prison.
Step through a looking glass of dark horrors with an Alice you never knew.
Join with Zenna to seek the truth as her death by magic grows closer.
Journey with Olivia as she crosses paths with a monster of the forest and runs for her life.
Watch Isobel summon the faerie to solve her problem of an unwanted husband.
Shiver as Doctor Killbride experiments with corpses to create life from death.
All that and more await within the pages.
Ten stories. Ten women.
Who will survive? Who will fall? And who will succumb to their inner evil?
Find out in Visions and Nightmares.
Warning: This book contains disturbing scenes that may be upsetting to some readers.
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