Tag Archives: Kathleen McClusky

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Corridor of Unmaking   by Kathleen McCluskey The corridor yawned bright before me, endless, silent. The stone pillars rose like teeth, tall and pristine, chewing away at my shadow as I staggered forward. My wings … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Rooted One  by Kathleen McCluskey The villagers warned me to stay out of the hollow. They whispered of the Rooted One, a shriveled figure bound by earth and sorrow, who claimed the souls of … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Whispering Brew   by Kathleen McCluskey When Aiko inherited the teahouse, the deed came with no key and a single note in her grandmother’s handwriting, Never serve what grows beneath the floor. The building had … Continue reading →

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Archivist’s Curse   by Kathleen McCluskey The storm had driven him into the ruins. Water dripped from his sleeves as Edwin Langley, archivist and historian of ancient texts, stumbled through the rotted doors of Sorrowmoor … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! What the Sea Wears     by Kathleen McCluskey  The waves licked the shore with a rhythmic hush, like the sea was whispering secrets too old for the land to remember. It was the … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Collector     by Kathleen McCluskey  It looked like a marble, an ordinary blue marble. Just one small, glassy blue sphere laying at the base of the well where the Peterson girl had … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Keeper of Souls  by Kathleen McCluskey  Smoke curled into the morning mist, soft and fragrant, masking the bitter truth beneath. To a passerby, she was nothing more than a gentle village woman … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Echoes in the Mortar  by Kathleen McCluskey     I don’t remember the blow, just darkness and the sound after, silence. It was a sharp, wet crack that ended my life. Then nothing, as … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Porcelain Teeth  by Kathleen McCluskey     The K-9, a black German Shepherd named Ranger, pulled hard on the leash. Deputy Morales struggled to keep pace in the thick underbrush. They went further into … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Shadows of the Old Line  by Kathleen McCluskey  The Tennessee sun roasted the ground into cracked gravel and dead grass. Jake wiped sweat from his brow, the metal detector whining as he swept … Continue reading →