Dark is my Playground

by Stephanie Ellis

Words are meant to be played with and there are many to be found in my playground. They have gathered together to form verses belonging to the dark and have twisted old nursery rhymes into unexpected forms. The Deceiver is the Master of Ceremonies in this rewritten world, let him read you poems cloaked in night's shades, those tales of murder and loss, betrayal and abandonment. Let him take you to those old nursery rhymes, climb the stairs with a candle, wait for the axe ...

92 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 24, 2018

About the author

Stephanie Ellis writes dark speculative prose and poetry and has been published in a variety of magazines and anthologies. Her longer work includes the novels, The Five Turns of the Wheel, Reborn and The Woodcutter, and the novellas, Paused and Bottled. Her new post-apocalytpic/sci-fi/horror novel, The Barricade is due out this year!

She is a Rhysling and Elgin nominated poet, co-authoring the poetry collection, Foundlings, with Cindy O'Quinn, Lilith Rising with Shane Douglas Keene and solo work Metallurgy.

She can be found at https://stephanieellis.org

Reviews

[G.A. Miller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dark indeed!

Stephanie Ellis is a brilliant wordsmith, yielding the pen much like the master surgeon handles a scalpel. She brings her delightfully dark imagination to vivid life, turning time honored fairy tales far more grim than Grimm.
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