Category: Haunted Passages

Haunted Passages: Three Poems by Rita Mookerjee

Pyre The ghost vibrates with the furyof someone who was flayed alivebut I like to pretend his death wasdignified like the silent drop ofa tiger lily petal no witnesses noscreams when he is awake henever stops working relentlessand viscous like mercury and herises from a soft grave to chop uphickory logs even though it takeshours…
“Shrouded by death & isolation is a promise / a future”: Haunted Passages Poetry by Brekken Carns

I. Wanted: the dead image of her human face — a sheep butchered on the dewy grass tongue dangling below its pale soft nose newborn-pink eyes frozen wild in terror (terror such a wild thing) as if in formalin the back right leg torn clean off, jagged muscles steaming and gone ripped from socket a…
A Haunted Passages Poem: “The Red Kickball” by Jason Melvin

We thought it’d be funnot waiting for nightfallsticky summer afternoon séancesun high up in the skyeight of us just kissing the teen yearshanging out on my back porchalways in search of a thrill and a scare We circled up discussed next movesWhen all four grandparents and your fatherare dead by time you’re eleventhere are plenty…
Haunted Passages Fiction: “My Acting Years” by James Pate

My acting years grew new things in me. They gave me unfamiliar words to work my mouth around with each incoming script. They lent me names through which I could expose the more fleeting instances of myself. That I was often anonymous-seeming and lacking in talent only boded well for me. If most people are…
Poetry for Haunted Passages: Two Fassbinder Tapes by LM Rivera

This is a fragment from a forthcoming book (THE RED ABSURD). The section is THE FASSBINDER TAPES. TAPEONE He swore to all the world and to himself that he would remain decent. And as long as he had money, he remained decent. But then he ran out of money, which was a moment he had…
New Haunted Passages Flash Fiction: “First Night” by Sarah Daly

It was 1:00 a.m., the pizza was gone, the homework was not finished, and there was nothing on TV. Jay was staying at Cody’s that night. They were both in eighth grade and there were no adults present. In fact, it was Jay’s first time on his own. Jay’s mother had left him there, on…
New Haunted Passages Poem: “The Bedroom Endures an Owl” by Ginna Luck

All the walls are being eaten by something. All the booksdie before we do. The framed photos fill our throats.Each corner slows out vowels like flat stones.The door reflects an owl. A pigeon sobs a shovel.A creature’s tiny legs rip like flint. An object under the bedsnaps like a deer ankle.An object crushed in the…
Prose Poetry for Haunted Passages: “Just Nothing” by Ivan de Monbrison

It is necessary to turn the other way the way time goes like in a clock but by going backwards the hands of the clock go backwards as well your eyes have been gouged out from your face from your face which is made only of skin there is skin your own skin over your…
Haunted Passages New Fiction: “Originality” by Hugh Behm-Steinberg

I finish my story; I’m very proud of it, but I’m sure there are some loose parts that need tightening, or my ending could be less metafictional, so I bring it to workshop to get that little bit of feedback it needs. But instead of telling me how brilliant my characterizations happen to be, Kate…