Topic: Gothic IX

in darkest night
as he rounded the bend
he saw up ahead
a little old figure
shuffling slowly

his pace would
surely
overtake her
quite soon

on the chance that he did
such a thing and looked back
to find not a woman
but a ghoul—
with sinister grin,
broken,
evil,
obscurely—

he remembered
he’d forgotten
something
back at the saloon