“Stuck in a blue, melancholic haze. I've known you for six years, intimately for four, and yet I still don’t know who I’m in love with. There’s nothing harder than saying goodbye to someone who broke your heart but whom you still undeniably love.” LoveHeartbreakConfusionIntimacyGoodbyeMelancholyUnrequited LoveEmotional PainLost IdentityRelationship Struggles Author:Rolf van der Wind
“The Night When Fear Strays by Stewart Stafford Each Hallowtide, all monstrous shapes do quail, No balm for wounded wretches feeling frail, Spectators as charlatan mortals filch frights, Appropriated skins on haunted nights. With bonfire’s glow ablaze in dauntless eyes, Children’s fun quelled by strangest sighs, A hulking shape, once fierce, wails tainted, Its fearful gaze in phantom mists attainted. Small, tender hands caressed its sodden fur, A trembling growl betrayed its lonesome blur, “Peace, gentle shade, what sorrow stirs unfed?” “November’s dawn shall call me home,” it said. Their kindly-shared oat cakes eased its pangs, A webbed claw from veiled night to munching fangs, It feasted with a hunger born of striven years alone, Stroked the child’s cheek for the kindness shown. When parents called, it whispered, soft and torn, “At midnight’s knell, this thicket heralds morn— Go, kindred babes, I’ll linger in this glade. Each Halloween, I’ll mourn my fear remade.” © 2025, Stewart Stafford. All rights reserved.” LonelinessEmpathyHalloweenDark FantasyAppropriationFrankensteinGothic PoetryMary ShelleyMonster LoveLost Identity Author:Stewart Stafford
“From The Motel That Eats Time “You don’t check into this motel to rest—you check in to remember what you were before the world forgot your name.” Dark FictionSouthern GothicThomas MillerLost IdentityPalatka FloridaTime And MemoryEmotional HorrorGothic MotelHaunting StoriesThe Motel That Eats Time Author:Thomas Miller
“You don’t check into this motel to rest—you check in to remember what you were before the world forgot your name.” — From The Motel That Eats Time by Thomas Miller” Dark FictionSouthern GothicThomas MillerLost IdentityPalatka FloridaTime And MemoryEmotional HorrorGothic MotelHaunting StoriesThe Motel That Eats Time Book:South of the Border The Motel That Eats Time Source: South of the Border The Motel That Eats Time
“I’d say I needed to find myself, if that didn’t sound like I was heading into the Himalayas, taking only a backpack stuffed with angst and clean underwear.” FunnyAngstBackpackingOliviaLost Identity Book:Omens Source: Omens
“Suffice to say that theirs had been an unusual love, with such a degree of commingling of identities that when Chris died, erica felt she had lost herself; even now she did not know if she could be found p.104” LoveLost SoulsLost Identity Book:The Reluctant Fundamentalist Source: The Reluctant Fundamentalist