The Haunted Traveler December 2017 Edition
This roaming anthology seeks the underground shocking tales of emerging and established authors. The Haunted Traveler is an online magazine that features terrifying tales that will keep you up for days.
This roaming anthology seeks the underground shocking tales of emerging and established authors. The Haunted Traveler is an online magazine that features terrifying tales that will keep you up for days.
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89<br />
Leah Oates<br />
Across the Phosphorescent<br />
I don’t want to hear about what actually happened—<br />
instead, we’ll talk about the summers we spent diverting<br />
rivers and flooding unsuspecting valleys, how the waters<br />
gamboled forth and how hands flailed in the redolent air.<br />
Let’s celebrate the nights we fused the animate with the<br />
dead, created our warriors of decay and set them aflame,<br />
heedlessly marching them across the phosphorescent<br />
blood pools where we could no longer dare to go.<br />
We know there’s no escape from this infected uterus—<br />
the allure of floral mutations and the way our dreams seem<br />
so much less real than our terrors: how I can smell you still,<br />
remembering just how the golden-leaf of your skin tasted.<br />
—Richard King Perkins II
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