POETRY PIECES

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Six Sentence Stories is a weekly writing gig hosted by Denise Farley—her prompt word this week was “NEED”.  Click her link above for more information.

Like it or not (I don’t), Halloween’s coming, so my mind went to the dark side.

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There was a murder just outside the tall wide gates—blood savagely too-generously splashed against the stately white wrought iron.

People huddled the way they do, in little clutches, whispering—how could this happen in their elite neighborhood of wealth and class-distinction.

You know them: they live in a strange and ridiculous bubble of naive, or arrogant just-plain-stupid, self-importance.

Crumpled against the bars of the locked entrance to the manse was a young woman—whatever she’d been 24 hours ago, she was now reduced to, well…nothing but an ordinary corpse defiled by violence.

Detectives and photographers dodged one another, attempting to get up close and personal to do their jobs— “it’s a shame”, one of them murmured; “what a mess”, said another.

One figure, obscured by others hovering at the perimeter of yellow crime tape, wore no expression as he observed the professional activity of human maggots; the voice inside him said, “she needed love…I needed to kill.”

©B Leslie Canter, 2025