The third officially confirmed contributor to The Ashen Eye is multi-talented poet, horror fiction writer and musician Alexis Child.
Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; horror in its purest form. She works at a Call Crisis Center befriending demons of the mind that roam freely amongst her writings and lives with a Calico-cat child sleuthing all that goes bump in the night.
She has been kind enough to allow us to feature one of her blood-chilling poems to introduce you to her work. Another one of her poems will be featured in the premiere issue of The Ashen Eye.
by Alexis Child
Memories chase after him like a murderer’s glove,
bruised and bloodied. Fugitive thoughts are nighttime
shadows springing from an abnormal mind, the wrong
shade of red. Scarcely remembered are the others, like a
child standing with its face pressed, distorted against glass.
Darkness closes in as a ravenous crow, sadistic urges
a devouring flesh. Emotionless eyes laugh coldly,
"Either way they die." Driving down the long highway,
he hunts for prey like the hawks he holds in high esteem,
bleeding offerings to the broken moonlight, nothing
less than the blatant face of death embracing itself.
Alexis Child’s poetry and fiction have been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Sinfully Twisted Magazine, Black Petals, Tales of the Talisman and Whispers of Wickedness (featuring an interview with the writer). Her first collection of poetry, titled “Devil in the Clock”, is now available in e-book from Purpleverse Publishing. Book in print coming soon.
To visit her website please click here.
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