Tag Archives: Kathleen McClusky

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! What Was Still Moving by Kathleen McCluskey The hinge bleeds when the door opens. It does not drip cleanly. The fluid clings, thick and dark stretching into strings between iron and wood before snapping … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Still Warm in the Dirt by Kathleen McCluskey They buried her when she stopped making noise. The men who had beaten her, and gang raped her dragged her lifeless body into the clearing. They … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! No Ripples for the Faithless by Kathleen McCluskey The dock had no business still standing. Its boards were warped into crooked ribs, nails soft with rust, planks missing entirely so the water showed through like … Continue reading →

he Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Borrowed Body   by Kathleen McCluskey Evelyn entered the cathedral with the cautious silence of somebody intruding on a place that remembered pain. The air was thick with the scent of damp stone and burned … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Hunger in the Creek by Kathleen McCluskey The thaw came late enough that the woods felt suspended between seasons, the air sharp as bone dust while the creek muttered beneath its lid of ice. Mara followed … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Bone Harvest  by Kathleen McCluskey The house in Wraith Hollow was built with local timber – oak that “bled” when it was cut. The carpenters said that the sap ran as red as rust … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Stillness   by Kathleen McCluskey The world ended without thunder or flame. It ended in silence, the kind that seeps into your bones and fills every hollow space. No one could say when the sound … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Rotting Jack   by Kathleen McCluskey Every Halloween, when the sun dipped behind the trees, the pumpkin appeared in the overgrown forest. It was always perfect, round and heavy. The skin was smooth as glass … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Shackled Lords   by Kathleen McCluskey The chamber was hushed with the steady flicker of candlelight. Its glow clung to a figure of a woman in flowing stone robes. Her head bowed. Her beauty caught … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Thing in the Walls   by Kathleen McCluskey Miley explored abandoned hospitals, factories and even a church with its altar split in half but this place felt different. Older. Hungry. Waiting. She broke the lock … Continue reading →