Fog was in my mind and mist in my eyes. And voices! Voices that whispered and screamed into the beating heart of my ears. My earthly body and mortal spirit – now a living, breathing corpse.     Fog was in my mind and mist in my eyes as I peered down at the laceration […]

“Only the dead can see my forest,” said the one holding the lantern.“I’m sorry?” I said. “The freshly dead come and come with dreamsof how they believe the afterlife will be, though they may die again and again in my forest.” And there this elder lady lifted a finger andadded, “now, they will make my […]

November, 1609 – ​The coach’s wooden wheels scraped through snowy ruts, down the drive to the Nagy family manor house, in Pressburg, The Kingdom of Hungary… The young noble lady of the house breathed hard and fast through the winter of another nightmare in her bedchamber. To the sound of her gasping, the door to […]

The season of a broken heart is upon me. Heartsick, this burning pain roars within my stricken heart chambers. The budding of my youthful heart, my tempestuous squalls  The wildfire of my youth. A blooming summer heart glowing with affection in the light which I bask. An aging, aching heart. Hued autumn days to pale […]

I am merely a black silhouette in the room. Something plagued by the dreaded psychosis. I am a burnt-out shell of my summery youthful self. These days every moment has a wintry hallucination – flurries of racing thoughts rage in the lacerating gales within.   Formless voices cascading into my ears! Flooding with such intensity, […]