Website: https://stephanieellis.org
It’s important, the detail.
She sat, as I recall
Small, a doll, eyes daring
Beyond caring of the future
And?
She wore trainers, to run
Said she’d always been running
From men like me
Men like you?
Men like her father
Forever after possession
Paternal monsters, always hunting
And did you hunt her?
No, no need. She knew I would wait
I’d baited her, held the line,
Sedated her, reeled her in
And then?
I measured the length of her, the stretch of her
As communed without communion
Shrouded in scarlet
But you see her still?
Yes, she sits at my shoulder
My angel, my perfect angel
And she whispers, Daddy…
Norbert Góra (Poland)
CONCUBINE OF NECROSIS
Norbert Góra is a 29-year-old poet and writer from Poland. He is the author of more than 100 poems which have been published in poetry anthologies in the USA, the UK, India, Nigeria, Kenya, and Australia.
One-to-one trysts, which were too weird
to understand how those feelings appeared,
the light of beauty met the darkness of eyesore,
innocence tasted the filthy bitterness of gore.
In the arms of death she quickly forgets
about the sort of things that can upset,
she worships the smell of decaying meat
when the slimy tongue touches her teat.
Longing washes her body during the day,
at night she loves the carcass, to whom she obeys,
infatuated and blissful, the concubine of necrosis
submerges in the source of lifeless hypnosis.
With each grain of time her face becomes paler,
brighter than the fabric kept in the hands of a tailor,
with every sunset, such a visible difference
between them disappears, fatal severance.
Kevin J. Kennedy (Scotland)
THE CURSE OF THE INTERNET
Kevin J. Kennedy is a horror author & editor from Scotland. He is best known for his 100 Word Horrors & The Horror Collection anthology series. He is also the man behind the Collected Horror Shorts series and an editor on multiple other anthologies.
He co-authored You Only Get One Shot & Screechers and has two solo collections available called Dark Thoughts & Vampiro and Other Strange Tales of the Macabre.
His stories also appear in a wealth of anthologies from a variety of publishers.
He lives in a small town in Scotland, with his wife and his two little cats, Carlito and Ariel.
Keep up to date with new releases or contact Kevin through his website: www.kevinjkennedy.co.uk
In a world where internet is king,
We often forget it’s just a thing.
It takes over lives every day,
We had no idea it would get in the way.
It seemed like a marvel at first,
That was until the bubble burst.
Our future is grim at best,
Leaving social media and apps the real test.
No one knew it would own us,
All the info seemed like a bonus.
We are zombies in front of a screen,
No one’s internet history clean.
Mankind was destined for annihilation,
The machines an abhorrent violation.
We can never turn off and go to bed,
Not to worry. Not long till you’re dead. 
