“Just because my charms did not work didn't mean they were broken.”

Woman Seeking Dominatrix

“You’re left-swiping faster than boy-racers on the M1. Boring, boring, dickhead, boring, weird. Is this how people find dates? You pause when you reach her.”

there is a town that gets no visitors

“Silent as a whisper, he ghosts into the hall. No light leaks out from beneath his father’s door, but the boy stands watch, his tiny heart beating in his chest. An hour, a lifetime, an eternity, it seems, and his father begins to snore. The boy moves again.”

Short StorySubmissionFebruary 24, 2020short story, kira compton, spooky stories, spooky, horror, horror fiction, short fictionComment

Ribs

“We shall no longer think of ourselves as floating heads, seeping vulvas, hard breasts, black gums, crooked, and harsh teeth. We will no longer have the desire to compare our round and dark selves to the moon or to the sun or to the stars. We shall drink from the final and sweet waters.”

Child That Was You

They took the child you once were before you were even born. They robbed her with their laws and their stares and their whistles, kicked her down and she could never dream, no, not even in my arms as I waited for the other you, the dead you, to come back for her.

Short StoryFleurDecember 12, 2019fleur, short story, creative writing, fiction, womanhood, women, girls, girlhood, society, wild womxn, wildernessComment

someone else's boyfriend

“but of course / that’s all we do on the / aihland / drink lukewarm rum out of coconuts / that I suction onto my breasts / to let you rip off / & drink / the liquor sweating, glowing”

Darkest Night, Darkest Day

“The sinister presence began its rolling creep up the stairs. No one ever saw it. It traveled under cover of darkness – the darkness of night, of a windowless room, of an underground crypt.”