red riding hood
evaded the wolf, but
forgot granny's basket

#InkMine #red
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #forget
#Senryu #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

halloween's last
creatures on their way home;
the walk of shame

#vss365 #creature
#Senryu #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

halloween ends
the color of good bye
a cold coffee

#blueskyrelay #thecolorofgoodbye
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #coffee
#Senryu #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

silent film
edgy guillotine scene
blink and you miss it.
#haikuhorrorprompt #Emoetry #spookysenryu #horrorku

stacked deck;
the image of me
demolished

#vssdaily #deck
#HaikuChallenge #image
#InkMine #demolish
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #Halloween #spooky #micropoetry

a loud Boo!
the danger is real
a silent film

#BraveWrite #Boo
#horrorprompt #danger
#haikuhorrorprompt #silent_film
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #spooky #Halloween #micropoetry

foggy halloween —
how lost he's looking
the poor ghost

#vss365 #Halloween
#DailyHaikuPrompt #foggy
#whistpr #ghost
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #spooky #micropoetry

showing where
something was severed
ray of luminol.
#haikuhorrorprompt #vss365 #spookysenryu

no costume
at the halloween fete
to lick their blood

#BraveWrite #costume
#HorrorPrompt #lick
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #micropoetry

a bit maudlin,
back in my hometown to
spit on your grave

#DailyHaikuPrompt #maudlin
#InkMine #spite
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #micropoetry

shifting ideals;
the difficulty to sever
good from bad

#HaikuChallenge #ideal
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #sever
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #micropoetry

curse of a witch...
sad about the void
in my wallet

#whistpr #witch
#InkMine #void
#BraveWrite #wallet
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #micropoetry

accepting the
monster inside my head
hair get argent

#horrorprompt #acceptance
#InkMine #monster
#vss365 #argent
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #horrorku #micropoetry

coolness
creeps up the back;
gloomy night

#DailyHaikuPrompt #coolness
#vss365 #creep
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #gloom
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #micropoetry #horrorku

no more din
after taking out trash
for a moment

#HorrorPrompt #din
#vssdaily #trash
#BlueSkyRelay #moment
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #micropoetry #horrorku

inner demons
never reaching his eyes
the clowns smile.
#inkmine #spookysenryu #horrorku

a serial killer

how many have
lost virginity here?
secluded pass

at the bottom
of the harbor basin
all his treasures

but demons too
need intermissions:
sunday cake

#InkMine #blueskyrelay #vssdaily
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #Rensaku #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu
#HaikuChallenge

third times
the charm — an incantation
at the burial
#SenryuSunday #spookysenryu #senryu

a triptych of nooses gallows pole.
#senryusunday #spookysenryu #horrorku

A child stands in a backyard posing for a photo in her Halloween costume. It’s a store bought costume of Raggedy Ann with a plastic doll mask and a red and white dress that reads “I love you” on the front. The costume is unintentionally terrifying.

decades later
my Halloween costume
still wreaking terror
#vss365 #senryu #spookysenryu #horrorku

quiescence
after martians' Invasion
no one violates

#InkMine #quiescence #violate
#vss365 #martian
#Senryu #spookySenryu #micropoetry

a cruel road —
life in the fast lane
paved with bloody gems

#InkMine #cruel
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #road
#whistpr #bloody
#HaikuChallenge #gem
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

unseen smell
in the pork scratchings
Halloween fete.
#haikuchallenge #vss365 #SpookySenryu

this ease
after the unearthly blast!
my job is done

#DailyHaikuPrompt
#vss365 #unearthly
#HaikuHorrorPrompt #blast
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #micropoetry

a loud crunch
has started the invasion
of the clones

#DailyHaikuPrompt #crunch
#BraveWrite #clone
#Senryu #SpookySenryu #SenryuSunday #micropoetry

be callous
the last he was taught
use a raincoat

#vss365 #raincoat
#horrorprompt #taught
#haikuhorrorprompt #callous
#Senryu #SenryuSunday #SpookySenryu #micropoetry