Tag Archives: Sheikha A.

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Hansel Loses Gretel  by Sheikha A.  It begins like a whisper – provocative fluttering – dime-sized hole parting its lips in a slow yawn. . The smell of burning flesh intoxicating like garlands … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Benazir by Sheikha A.  to giving Venus a rainforest . It has begun raining nightmares – red-striped lizard tails like sleet . slaking her glass dome of reality. She stealths the days on … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Layla by Sheikha A.  to giving Venus a mercy of jasmines . ‘The jasmines bloomed (a mercy) and withered’  – Rizwan Saleem . The scripture on her hand is blood-ink – emboss-pattern of … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Sultana by Sheikha A.  to giving Venus a bevy of blooms . You are at the mercy of an one-eyed caged bird, she tilts a candle over an earthen bowl of water. . … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Venus, As Corpse Tree by Sheikha A. for Moon in Libra . Lovers etch their names on her – her face, garden of dead butterflies. . They throng and hurl – yearning for … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Eurydice’s Letter by Sheikha A.  Daughter,  . Streak my words with the light of your mind. I didn’t raise you to be a pomegranate . eating she-Hades. The pout of your lips is … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Mantis by Sheikha A. to giving Venus a Sun . They say she was hit – this is how they warn their village – by fireball . that skulled out of night’s crevice, … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Ishtar by Sheikha A. to giving Venus a body  . She lays tracks with strands of her hair – white-pall, pallor of her eyes silvery veins; . her bearers will arrive soon – … Continue reading →

The Ladies of Horror Picture-Prompt Writing Challenge! Roksana by Sheikha A. to giving Venus a Moon . By Milky Way, brimming over she watches his moon-body . slide down the neck of night – her thick amber sky sinking   . … Continue reading →