he’s deadly trivial in the morning
thinks himself an auteur of horror
a newly minted incarnation of Argento
i have no desire to tell him that Terror
travels closely and isn’t planning to
stay hidden by the night
if he wanted to make his introduction
he could have made inquiries of the
proper keepers of old and secret rites
but now he’s made himself a nuisance
and my employer isn’t pleased. so I have
to make some trouble, I might even have
to make some naked lady scream
that’s the problem with these posers.
they keep meddling with the Fallen and Disgraced
and when the carnage is done, I’m the one hiding
bodies and bringing mercy for the pain
AUTHOR BIO: T.R.Click lives in the upstate of South Carolina with multiple cats and his wife of sixteen years. His work has appeared in Star*Line, Abyss & Apex, and Illumen. By day he works in industry. By night he writes of things hiding just beyond the edge of vision…