Tag Archives: Kathleen McClusky

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Golden Offering by Kathleen McCluskey    Every year, when summer comes to Iceland and the days stretch endlessly beneath the pale, northern sky, we gather at Gullfoss. The tourists come for the same … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Thing Beneath by Kathleen McCluskey    The formation always looked like a man to me.    I had noticed it on my first day of hiking on the cliffs, a massive black outcropping … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Offering by Kathleen McCluskey    The forest had gone silent before I realized I was lost. I had been following the trail for hours, certain it would bring me back to the road … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Wire by Kathleen McCluskey The old man stood alone before the rusted fence, his cane sinking into the soft, damp earth. Tourists wandered the memorial behind him, speaking in hushed voices. Fifty years … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Chains Below by Kathleen McCluskey    The old maps called them the “Hanging Woods.”    No one remembered why.   The name survived long after the meaning had rotted away, passed from one … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Last Tree by Kathleen McCluskey    The sun had not been directly seen in twenty-seven years. It still existed somewhere behind the blanket of ash that wrapped around the Earth. Nothing but a … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! When the Eye Closed by Kathleen McCluskey    The artifact was discovered beneath the ruins of a forgotten temple buried deep beneath the Anatolian desert. Archeologists originally believed it was a ceremonial wheel, a … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Memory by Kathleen McCluskey The first thing she remembered was the rain.    The memory arrived without warning, cutting through the darkness that had surrounded her for longer than she could measure. For … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Geometry of Petals by Kathleen McCluskey    The expedition logs do not agree on when the flowers first appeared.    Some entries describe them as always being there, silent fixtures embedded in the … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Life Eight Watches Life Nine by Kathleen McCluskey    I noticed it first in the reflection of the microwave door, that cheap, warped mirror that bends everything just enough to make you question your … Continue reading →