ABOUT
THE AUTHOR
Dark imagination, things that slither in the night, the dark side of existence ... Fascinating. I imagine, I write, I dream ... [February 2003]
AUTHOR'S OTHER TITLES (55) Descent To Hell (Poetry) This is actually a song I wrote for a novel. [233 words] Do You Feel Me? (Poetry) - [84 words] [Erotic] Don't (Poetry) - [91 words] Edge Of Eternity (Poetry) Loss and redemption. [189 words] Epilogue (Poetry) - [35 words] Eternal Curse (Poetry) Vampires... again. [124 words] [Horror] Evil (Poetry) Another song? What's up with this? [118 words] Fantasy .... Reality (Poetry) Written after a rude awakening. [73 words] [Relationships] Freeky (Poetry) Feelin' kinda dirty ... feelin' kinda mean ... [81 words] [Erotic] Games (Poetry) - [103 words] Happenstance (Poetry) A little silly, perhaps? [66 words] Heaven Bound (Poetry) As did Sylvia, I felt the need to express my feelings on this day of national tragedy, and as she so aptly stated, no reviews necessary. [124 words] I Am Sin (Poetry) More vampires... [116 words] [Horror] Imaginary Lover (Poetry) - [74 words] [Erotic] Immortal Obsession (Poetry) Immortal cravings. [94 words] In The Eventide (Poetry) - [100 words] Insanity Part Un & Insanity Part Deux (Poetry) I believe I've lost it .... [155 words] Interlude (Short Stories) Chance encounters can be dangerous.... [172 words] [Horror] Mezmerized (Poetry) Oh, the lure of the darkness. [165 words] [Horror] My So-Called Life (Poetry) - [99 words] Not Quite Haiku (Poetry) Just what it seems... [49 words] Nothing Left (Poetry) Love realized. [138 words] [Erotic] Only Words (Poetry) - [61 words] Onslaught Of Love (Poetry) Secret yearnings ... [137 words] Pandora's Bottle (Short Stories) First love, last love... [5,004 words] [Horror] Player (Poetry) When the player tires of the game.... [57 words] [Relationships] Please Now (Poetry) - [49 words] Post Mortem (Poetry) In Memory of Mark Whitney Davis 1960-2001 You left me here alone ... WHY? [68 words] Predator (Poetry) - [84 words] Primal (Poetry) - [26 words] Ravenous (Poetry) - [47 words] [Horror] Requiem (Poetry) -Perhaps a final goodbye [40 words] Reverie (Poetry) - [100 words] Sacrificial Lamb (Poetry) - [94 words] Sisters Of The Heart (Poetry) In Memory of Joey Callihan 1949-1999 [120 words] Soliloquy (Short Stories) A woman seeking love, finds more than she expected. [173 words] [Fable] Soul Of A Dove (Poetry) - [73 words] Spontaneous Combustion (Poetry) A little heat.... [72 words] [Erotic] Steam Heat (Poetry) A little something to warm a winter's day? [20 words] Super Bowl High (Poetry) I've been a Bucs fan from the first inauspicious fumbling in the dark to tonight's awesome Super Bowl win ... This is dedicated to all of us diehard fans! Go Bucs! [109 words] The Bell Tower (Poetry) Unrequited love ... [169 words] [Romance] The Callous Heart (Poetry) Those lying guys... I mean eyes ... [89 words] [Relationships] The Looking Glass (Poetry) - [155 words] The Memory Book (Poetry) A real departure from my usual ... [155 words] The Mists Of Dreams (Poetry) Sensuality. [69 words] [Romance] The Portrait (Short Stories) A painting with a dark secret ... [1,352 words] [Horror] This Man Of Mine (Poetry) - [95 words] Those Eyes (Poetry) Can fantasy become reality? [68 words] [Erotic] Traces Of You (Poetry) - [99 words] Transformation (Poetry) I know, I know, vampires again.... [152 words] Vamp (Poetry) I know, more vampires, I just can't seem to help myself... and who said vampires have to be male? [158 words] [Horror] Vampire (Poetry) - [70 words] [Horror] Where? (Poetry) Lost love [97 words] Whispers On The Wind (Poetry) Something ghostly this way comes... [92 words] [Horror] Winter Wind (Poetry) Alone. [128 words]
Lycanthrope Judith Goff
Lycanthrope
Silence bleeds from the corners of my room.
From the open window, brutal moonlight
Stretches, flexes, claws its way across the floor
Making its merciless way to the foot of my bed
I cringe, shrinking back against the cold pillows
As a sudden breeze flutters sullenly in,
Sending tremors of apprehension down my spine.
A sense of foreboding floods over me
I rise from the sanctuary of my bed and creep
To the window where I stare out at the bone-white
Landscape as the moon casts a desolate pallor over all.
Frigid, barren, surreal.
In the distance, a mournful howl shreds the night,
And on the moon-bleached lawn, a sinister shadow appears,
Looming like a phantasm in the stark moonlight …
Black against a colorless backdrop.
I slam the window shut and retreat to the refuge of my bed
Pulling the coverlet to my chin as I quake in fear.
And as I lay frozen in terror, I see, silhouetted against
The window, the instrument of my doom.
The window opens slowly and the shadow insinuates itself
Into my room … I can hear its raspy breathing; smell
The dank, musty stench of its body; see the scarlet glow of its eyes.
And there, in the merciless, moonlit night, the werewolf stakes its claim …
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"Excellent!" -- Lora.
"You're dead. No more poems. Damn." -- R. Bennett Okerstrom.
"Lora ... thank you!!!" -- Judith.
"Fear not, R Bennett ... the werewolf's bite, like the vampire's, often does not kill, but, instead, transforms the victim to one of its own!!! There WILL be poetry!!" -- Judith.
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