A house is a tomb for memories
for love and hate and ire
and the Earth will eat it greedily
with water, time, and fire.
But the stain of men can linger on
turning black the earth itself
and what wicked depths a man can find
when his mind becomes his hell.
What thoughts can live in the turgid black
may live yet fuller by light of day.
What happens to our dreams when we die?
Do they linger in the sewer of the mind,
as the mind, itself decays?
Where do our nightmares go
when the dreams have long since passed?
and what bitter things might lumber, slow,
out of the dark their shadows' cast?
When our fears parade our flesh
a masquerade of muted cries,
paranoia, living depths that
no good thing could near survive.
What fetid things might utter forth
like poison from a wound
when all the world has turned its back
on a once thought quiet tomb?
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Veris Marock
I've been a writer since I was a child. I had my first story published in 2019 in a short horror story collection and I've been working to expand my horizons since then. My primary interests are horror and fantasy.
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This Land
Companion Preface This work appears in four movements, not as revisions of one another, but as different ways of standing on the same ground. The first speaks with grit. The second listens for what still opens. The third braids what was once held apart. The fourth offers a vow—small, human, unfinished. Together, they trace a walk rather than an argument. What changes between them is not the land, but the stance of the one walking it. You may enter at any point. You may linger where something recognizes you. Nothing here asks for agreement— only presence. — Flower InBloom
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