Tag Archives: Michelle Joy Gallagher

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Yanti by Michelle Joy Gallagher Full dark. Do you know the meaning of full dark? There are places inside of you that know it. Ventricle of heart, lobe of lung. The inside of the inside. … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Watchers by Michelle Joy Gallagher Greta had come into the world watching. Wide eyed and inexplicably wise. So too had her sisters. And what had they to watch? They knew without knowing for sure. … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Rebirth by Michelle Joy Gallagher Sarah watched the sun set as she’d done countless times in what had felt like an achingly long life. Except, the sun didn’t set here. It sank, like a skipped stone into the water. The body was wrapped neatly … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! NPC by Michelle Joy Gallagher Lacey had worked tirelessly for two weeks straight programming her company’s new video game. The premise had been simple enough, a multiplayer game in a mythical land that borrowed … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Irises by Michelle Joy Gallagher Sinclair had very few benefactors since the last great war and the government started censoring all artforms for public consumption. They eventually outlawed most forms of expression entirely unless … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Frank by Michelle Joy Gallagher Frank patrolled the machine on the graveyard shift for close to 20 years. He preferred the solitude and the stillness of working alone. The old rusty pipes and the whirring gears were close enough … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Play by Michelle Joy Gallagher “You remember the smell of blood, don’t you?” Reid looked contemplatively down at his hands. They had been haphazardly bandaged with inadequate amounts of gauze and blushed a bright red in places.  He’d been in the small … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Purgatory by Michelle Joy Gallagher There was nothing inside the tiny room to provide any comfort. No windows and no source of light.  She’d kept track of the days by carving jagged marks into the … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Helena by Michelle Joy Gallagher Helena learned early on that silence was its own language. It overcame the joyful when words were insufficient. It paralyzed the fearful. Rage, in its greed, stole words directly … Continue reading →