“The cobwebs, rat droppings, dust and rotten floorboards? There must be a reason they had no photos of the interior on the website. “Do you think the estate agent has chickened out?” Not long now and I’ll be held softly in his arms and loved in a way I have only briefly tasted but often imagined.Ī ‘desirable property in need of updating’ clings on to its past, and a young couple’s future together is irrevocably changed.Ī short ghost story (approx 4500 words) Excerpt: I can hear my own breathing, my own heartbeat, over the wind whipping through the canopy of trees above me. I press my fingers first against the wound, then against my lips, tasting the ferrous stain on my skin. Twisted branches snatch at my face, scratch my cheek, draw blood. Leaves whisper conspiratorially as I brush past. A few steps farther and I will be lost forever.įallen twigs snap beneath my feet. A few steps farther and I will be embraced by the forest, wrapped in the musty smell of decay, held in its damp caress. Excerpt:Ī few steps farther off the path and I will be consumed by the dark. When night falls we can venture into danger within the safety of our dreams – where nothing can really touch us… or can it? One woman’s insidious fantasy threatens everything, but some nightmares are simply too good to resist. Dark Fiction A Dark Miscellany – a series of short horror and ghost stories Dreaming, Not Sleeping Click to view on Amazon
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