Out There…
in the Core of the Wood
there are other parts of me—
We have not been introduced!
I sense them…just out of sight,
turn to look cautiously back
but never stop
for fear they might catch up…
while I am out there
In the Core of the Wood
Alone!
About the Author
Dean Schreck is a retired Long Islander writing since age fourteen. His work has appeared in Voices International, Space and Time, Altered Reality, New Myhts, Trembling with Fear, Literary Hatchet, Eldritch Tales, Littoral, The Chamber, Weirdbook, Dreich, Penumbric, Zephyr, Magical Blend, Owlflight, Reflect, Footsteps…to name a few. Dean is a child of The Golden Age of SF and Horror, Woodstock—and longtime student of the spiritual/paranormal.
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