By Krowan the flies came the birds grew fat and happy the spiders too they’d never known such abundance they dined out together birds and spiders grew fat and happy for six weeks of summer   at the house on Herschell Street the thirteen bodies lay exactly where they fell   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Pam Martin-Lawrence She's right beside me, yet I'm stone cold lonely. She carves her lies – her constant care and never-ending need ground down by my epidote-eyed-flinty-heart – and when did she last warm my chill with her fingers?   I remember when she'd reach for me like only my touch would ever be enough.   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge

By Hope Savage You asked your sister where her mummy was and I was too slow to intervene. ‘You mean our real mummy?’. Amongst the ‘I hate you’ and ‘you pushed me’ tension of another new family, our fragile glass was fractured as your tiny lip wobbled.   #darkpoetsclub #smallspacedeepimpact #50wordchallenge