HORRORKU

moonless night                                  

behind the serial killer 

the zombie rises

Francis W. Alexander

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the sea spits up

what it can't keep down           

bloody life vest

Joshua Gage

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fleeing tourist boat

the corpses' bloated hands         

claw the glass bottom

Joshua Gage

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incubation tank

temperature control fails           

instant mortuary

Tom Conally

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tangled forest edge

man shifts with the shadows       

wolf bounds through the snow

Michael R. Fosburg

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steering the head

with fingertips and thought       

dead eyes fly open

assu

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last zombie standing--

my husband               

i put gun down

Faith-Anne Bell

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weeping tree

mournful twigs entwine             

gagging axman

Richard H. Fay

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laughter in the dark

graveyard ghouls playing marbles 

with someone's eyeballs   

- Guy Belleranti

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Whale grin

Looks different—

From the inside           

Albert Melear

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elderberry wine

with harder substance laced      

a fairy tale end

— Shelly Bryant   

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electronics store--

pale light from the TVs glisten        

off the looters' corpses

 -Joshua Gage

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Old Sparky

Strapped onto Death’s knees.

Shaved head, wet sponge, fear of death.

Last words: Flick the switch!

Thom Olausson

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tattered flesh

dropping off

the wolf within                

Noel Sloboda

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your pallid body

adorns emerald grass          

a fly on your chest

-assu

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