Writer’s block; a cursed obstacle so many have run into. It can make one almost go… mad? LG Rogers gives us another uniquely grim short story with, Blink.
Lloyd has had enough of his wife and one day snaps, murdering her in cold blood. Now he needs to hide the body, but it doesn’t quite go accordingly to plan. Flash fiction piece by Caleb James.
Being a writer of macabre poetry can be frustrating. Sure, you think you’re writing great stuff, but it seems like all the likes and retweets fall to the flowers, puppies, and kittens. You know, all that uplifting stuff. Pfft, like who needs that? Seriously.
Okay, I get it, maybe we all need some positive thinking now and again. However, one would not understand positive if not for the negative. Balance, my friends, balance. Besides…as I’m sure Stephen King would tell you (because, you know, I’m totally close to his level of awesomeness [sarcasm alert]), sometimes darkness is just fun, damn it.
This weeks featured writer, Rocky Hutson, takes us out into the open, exposing us to the raw underbelly of nature itself and its feelings toward human kind with his short story, King of Crows.
Darkness has a way of tricking our brains into thinking that things may be lurking in those safest of places, when, in fact, they are not. As darkness is the absence of all color, so too, shall the color drain from us when left ambling alone in the darkness. Sometimes, the irrational fear is merely a trick of the mind, a game of a mischievous soul. Other times…it is not.
Drunken Pen Writing 