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		<title>The Cemetery Wraith</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by K. A. Opperman A spectre swims amid the mist, In midnight hours starlight-kissed&#8211; Glides restlessly among the graves That lie along long untrod ways, Amid the swirling autumn leaves In the ancient cemetery. In mausolean neighborhoods Encroached on by the haunting woods, The wraith dwells on the epitaphs And stokes anew its wretched wrath&#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hell Sings Along</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria Mitchell I&#8217;ve travelled the Earth from coast to coast and I have seen the ghosts of an unholy thousand years. I don&#8217;t know how, I don&#8217;t know why, I didn&#8217;t die, But I am alive. - I sing a song And Hell sings along. - Listen to the demons a-whispering on the wind [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Demon Clock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by K. A. Opperman That pendulum is ever swinging&#8211; Swinging swiftly, ever bringing&#8211; Bringing, with the small hours&#8217; ringing, Me closer to my doom! The waning hours plague and haunt me, The crooked clock-hands spin and mock me, The demon clock grins down upon me And chimes a hellish tune! - That monstrous medallion is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cinderella Redux</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 May 2010 01:35:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pamela J. Jessen Cinderella whined – Why is it always me sweeping the hearth? Why do I have to scrub the floors and polish the silver till it shines? Why me? Alone in her garret with only the scrabbling mice for company, she conjured a life built on a smidgen of revenge. - Her [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mourning Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:17:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pamela J. Jessen As evening drains the sunlight from the sky, he moves, a fluid shadow in the mist. A hunger builds inside he can’t deny, his vampire thirst a curse he can’t resist. - With phantom ease he moves through city streets, past houses filled with artificial sun to hunt his quarry where [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spectral Compromise</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Apr 2010 02:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Maria Mitchell Something is coming Sickly, but sly, Something is coming; You best let it by - “I am not afraid Of some withered shadow, It’s trapped in the cellar With my roots and my tallow.” - Something is coming Up the cellar stairs You best let it out Before its rage flairs. - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aftermath</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:50:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pamela J. Jessen I struggle through sifting ash hunting remnants of you &#8211; harsh wind a flensing knife against my cheek. - Sirens whoop, the air reeks of cordite and blood, jet fuel and scorched flesh . . . - I claw at rubble, hands raw and torn, until I am smoke and ash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shopping List</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Galen Rossop Bought fake flowers for my basket Some air freshener for my casket Some tooth whitener for my fangs A broken mirror for the gang A black light for the den Some fresh poison for my pen A Bloody Mary for my niece A new cross for my priest. ©2010 Galen Rossop]]></description>
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		<title>Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Julia Roberts I see you Flesh and blood My derelict home Banished, empty, all alone Ripped apart Soul from bone - I see you Broken, decayed Mindless, soulless Unafraid - I see you A battered shell A staring unseeing Hollowed out human being A vision from Hell - I see you Flesh and blood [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Martian Dawn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 02:14:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pamela J.  Jessen Our ship will touch down at Martian dawn, exhaust throwing gales of organ sand into the thin atmosphere. We’ll cheer once, briefly, then bend to our tasks of securing the craft, transmitting data and images twenty light minutes to an Earth hungry for Mars. - Month after boring month we’ve watched [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transformation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:19:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Victoria Clayton Munn In the deepest consciousness of you darkness prevails and I wonder at the side of the road as you change the twentieth flat tire - - if you remember I&#8217;m there, your hair misted with road dirt and dew head bent against cold metal ratchet over and over the bolts that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sleeping Dogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Pamela J. Jessen Do dogs dream? Have you watched the spasmodic jerking of their legs, heard the soft whimpers and barks and wondered what movie plays in their slumbering brains? Do they dream of their wolf days? Of the pack gliding silently through the night forest, deer scent thick in the moon-drenched air – [...]]]></description>
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