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Childhood Nightmares: A Haiku Chain

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October 31, 2021
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Burning firewood in oven
Photo by Ty Finck on Unsplash

Furnace downstairs hides
the pointy-nosed bogeyman
climbs out to chase me.

Neck hairs stand up straight
cement wall Chief’s headdress shadow,
no window across.

Old witch cackles while
stoking two hot grey ovens,
we lay bound, waiting.

Drums beat, voices chant
moccasin feet start to dance
no one hears but me.

Paralyzed by fear
I open my mouth to scream
and nothing comes out.

Photo by Ty Finck on Unsplash

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Heather Hancock

Heather Hancock has been writing her entire life. She's currently a Writer for Coffee House Writers, with short stories, serial stories, and poems published on the website. She is also an Editor, and a Ghostwriter. In December 2020, she had 3 poems and 2 short stories published in The Coffee House Writer's Anthologies. In February 2021 her nonfiction article was published in The Survivor Memoirs: Childhood Sexual Abuse. Heather is an Amazon Best Selling Co-author in the Called To Intercede Anthologies - Volume 1 (January 2022) & Volume 7 (February 2022). She's getting ready to release her first Contemporary Christian fiction novel, Sister Lost, on Feb 1, 2023. Heather lives with her husband and cat, Willow, in a small town in southwestern Saskatchewan, Canada.

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