She tripped and fell down the rabbit hole mortals call a well. Eyes ringed in kohl, the water does fall, to tumble through and drench us all. If she only knew how it makes us blue, when all the roses must be painted anew. #poetry

Our souls sought surrender amongst midnight's splendor, dancing beneath the trees falling, breathless, to our knees. Tomorrow we will remember the softly burning embers of the sweet serenades that carried us away. @FoxProse #FoxProse

imprints through her boots and into her skin. She muffled a scream, and as her head rolled back, she saw it: a thick, jagged rock. She choked back a sob and got to work. #horrorprompt 1995

An impossibly long root lashed out, wrapping itself tightly around Zerin's ankle. Delphi went sprawling ahead of her with a soft wheeze, still coming to her senses. Zerin's eyes flicked about wildly, looking for any way to free herself. The root grew tighter, leaving deep

Her lot is to be frozen a secret fae chosen. No warmth in sweet kisses only icy, cold misses. As the snowdrops flutter down, she dons her newest crown and all those around cheer the Snow Queen. @fairytalepoets #fairytalepoets

our glade unaware." Zerin flicked a match and caught the branches of the older oak. It went up like a tinderbox. She ripped the vines binding Delphi, carrying her over her shoulder at a sprint. #horrorprompt 1994

"What the fuck are you?!" Zerin screamed, grabbing Delphi to pull her ashore. "Your kind would call us the boogeymen of the forest." The nymph smiled with sharpened wooden teeth. "We have been called many things over the centuries. Imagine our delight to have prey wander into

Cold eyes shiver, give voice to lies. False promises quiver once holy, now denied. The elegy delivered the night has come to say all your works are long, long done. @fairytalepoets #fairytalepoets

violently as the water covered her mouth, then her chin. Her eyes saw nothing except shadows standing around above her. "There are to be NO inversion drownings! It is the wrong phase of the moon!" The loud voice rang out, a bit muffled from the running water. #horrorprompt 1993

Delphi fell into a fitful sleep full of haunting, disjointed nightmares. Sometime towards what should have been dawn, she felt her face plunged into the iciness of running water. With her nose submerged, she tried to move, only to find herself tied upside down. She thrashed

Flakes fall uniquely catching the flowers, betraying the hours you took to find me. Infinite blue eyes drown me inside. My silent wishes for romantic kisses. A touch to keep. @FoxProse #FoxProse

The winter nights bring beautiful sighs of frosted flowers for another hour. Behind my window the pitter-patter of frozen showers are another matter. @fairytalepoets #fairytalepoets

creatures screamed in fury, desperately trying to reach them. "We have broken their seven deadly sins." "Do they follow a traditional religion?" Zerin snorted a laugh, followed by a coughing fit. "No, they have their own version of it." #horrorprompt 1992

They received relief from the nymphs protecting their small wood within the forest. The magical barriers kept back the heat and smoke from the young blossoming trees. Both women, covered in soot and coughing, sat beneath the boughs of a shaded oak. Beyond the barrier, the

Slowly across the threshold whispered stories are told they lift the spirit, inspire dreams taking us to worlds unseen. Romance & horror clash together the macabre is spun in this forever. Dance with your puppet strings where nothing is as it seems. @FoxProse #FoxProse

A night we wish to forget started out in simple quest to give rise to whose the best. Thunder and lightning ripped asunder the peaceful notes of grace and wonder Divisive notes cracked on well into rosy dawn. No love or kindness remain in this dark, dark domain #fairytalepoets

the fire continued to catch ahead of them. Smoke blanketed the forest, causing them difficulty breathing. Soon, it was all they could do to see. Creatures chittered and screeched on either side of them, but darkness held. Their life became pinpricks. #horrorprompt 1991

#Danger swelled as talons barely missed her throat. It charged at her, but Zerin, ever faithful, was ready. She stabbed the creature, propelling it into the flames and another of its kind. Haunting wails erupted from their burning carcasses. Neither had time to appreciate it as

Locked out of heaven, trapped down below with nothing to show save some new scars. Locked out of hell, trapped in betwixt with false hopes a dozens of ropes. Soul quotients must be met before either will let mortals their afterlife. Pray, pray hard. #fairytalepoets

Peeking planets, underwater universes spinning sweetly, discoveries incomplete. #Only8Words

call, moving into position around her. Delphi bolted through a hole, tripping over a tail. Air whooshed out of her lungs as she crawled to her feet, refusing to look back. Hot hissing breath fell on the back of her neck... #horrorprompt 1990