Poem: Christmas Happiness

I am now packing things for the US (or for storage while I am away), and found a true gem! When I was in gymnasium (secondary school?), we found this christmas poem in the local newspaper. It is a truly atrocious christmas poem, and we loved it. For many years, while we had a mailing list of our own, someone sent this out to everyone every christmas. I now found that I actually cut it out of the newspaper and have been svaing it for the last thirteen years or so. Here it is:

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If I lay down now I might think I’m dead

Here is my attempt at a Gothic poem. As per usual it is CC: BY-SA, so share and enjoy!

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The night is cool, the night is calm,
the streets bereft of life.
In every house, in every home
Sleep now claims its tithe.

But one narrow window
bleeds with light;
there two-score candles
oppose the night.
It is the window
of a tired young girl,
who is much too frightened
to let dreams unfurl.

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Laas Anginas

Another one of the early FantasyBits stories, on the theme “Ancient Temple”, I believe. As usual, only small edits have been made compared to the original, which would have been written in 1998 or so. For instance, back then I had no clue how to use a semicolon, it seems…

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Stenarna/The pebbles

(Go here to read the story first, if you prefer not being spoiled!)

Stenarna is the first story I present here. I’m sorry to say that it is only available in Swedish, so unless you know that, or you happen to enjoy that sort of thing, it won’t be worth downloading. Maybe I’ll translate it someday. This is the first short story I’ve finished in many years. It is an excursion into the realm of horror fiction, and it should be obvious to any reader familiar with this genre that the story is a Lovecraft tribute.

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