Step into
the shadows…
This second volume of dark tales and poetry was inspired by the theme of DEAD HEAT. From an atmosphere of arid desolation to the suffocating heat of a family in flames, allow Volume II to spark a fever in your mind. Welcome to The Dark Corner…
Protean Sunburn by Robert Weaver
“When you’re forty, you no longer expect the summer romances…
You forget you’re mortal and ageing.
Of course, you forget the sunscreen.
And for Hillock, you learn that we aren’t alone.”
God on a Leash by Eileen Stelter
“In my house, we kept our god on a chain in the shed. It was frowned upon in other families, but my mother insisted we do it that way.”
The Kitchen by Neil Sharpson
“It has been hard to get to sleep.
And I don’t know if that’s because I’m too tired to remember…
Because of the heat. Because of the smoke.”
Breaking and Entering by Andy Murillo
“This summer had been too hot, far more than usual. On some of the worst days, he’d even been able to see the heat waves bending the light as they rose, creating that undulating effect on the horizon that you often see in movies set in deserts and the like.”
Eternal Sunshine by Keith O’Sullivan
“The fog clears, and I am on my back.
I stare listlessly up at the sky — the eternally bright, eternally daytime sky.
Is this how it ends?”
Baba by Sharon Keating
“It’s been such a struggle for me, this whole life-altering change. I don’t recognize myself sometimes as I lurch from day to day, bedraggled and stressed. “The mammy monster,” Paddy calls me.”
The Dark Corner 