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Blueprint for a Ghost Cycle // Celeste Rose Wood

Nov 23, 2018
1 min

Blueprint for a Ghost Cycle // Celeste Rose Wood

There is nothing intentional about twenty-eight limbs and seven heads stumbling against a screen door so that it knocks against the doorframe stutteringly. An unpracticed tangle of spirits might accidentally jog piano keys, break tea cups of coffee, slice bread raggedly by scratching contorted backs on cupboards or counter awnings. Your special spook camera arrived in an unmarked box. Through it you think you have seen one or two spirits an orb of blurry li

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A Little Something for the Dead // Jess Doyle

Oct 31, 2018
5 min

A Little Something for the Dead // Jess Doyle

A Little Something for the Dead The small garden was full of flames and fabric. Lizzy’s Mother had made the lanterns herself. They had started out as twigs and bits of the clothes that Lizzy had grown out of. They didn’t have vegetables to spare for lanterns. The washing her mother had had to take in hung in the garden too. White sheets, floating like ghosts, glowed in the lantern’s soft, warm light. Lizzy watched a tiny flame dance dangerously behind her old nightdress. She

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Two Poems // Suzy Howe

Oct 30, 2018
1 min

Two Poems // Suzy Howe

The Witch’s Premonition (grass moon) She floats naked in crabgrass above the flowing blades, with broom bound by willow. tickled by death skin oiled green, she rides west tears loosened, lashes burning [Where the backyard light only dresses...] Where the backyard light only dresses the blackness of the night with darker shades of faces reflecting In the leaves the night’s silver breath stings the back of your neck so your shiver echoes through the dark canyons of the trees wh

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The Spirits Who Watch Us // Cain

Oct 30, 2018
6 min

The Spirits Who Watch Us // Cain

The Spirits Who Watch Us I grew up in a haunted house. It’s not so bad, it’s not like what they depict in the movies, all possession and nightmares and slamming doors (although that did happen once). It’s more like there’s something in your house that’s trapped there, confused and lost, trying to communicate to someone, anyone, so that they can gain a tether in the darkness. Something familiar that they can latch onto, some sign of life in the ether. In church we were taught

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Two Poems // Vanessa Maki

Oct 29, 2018
1 min

Two Poems // Vanessa Maki

Dead Things Ghost Girl Vanessa Maki is a writer (& other things), queer & full of black girl magic. She has work in various places like Entropy, Rising Phoenix Press, Sad Girl Review, Soft Cartel among others & is forthcoming in Pussy Magic Press among others. She's founder/EIC of yell/shout/scream & rose quartz journal, interview editor for Tiny Flames Press, a columnist for terse journal & a regular contributor for Vessel Press. She has also self published a chapbook & micr

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Beloved // Lisa Lerma Weber

Oct 23, 2018
1 min

Beloved // Lisa Lerma Weber

Beloved I visited the cemetery every day for a month, holding vigil at the same grave, repeatedly running my fingers over the word "Beloved" on the headstone. I was there even when the sky ripped itself apart and poured agony. I didn't feel it anyway. The once bare mound sprouted grass, a reminder that time didn't stop to mourn any death. The white lilies left on the day of the funeral had long ago browned and shriveled and turned to dust. I didn't replace the flowers, instea

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Two Poems // Mike Ferguson

Oct 19, 2018
1 min

Two Poems // Mike Ferguson

ghost take ghosts, they’re hosts to their own haunting, wanting some attention for the retention of their myth, as if they existed, each twisted dumb fake succubus this succubus, incredulous, asks when her men in their tombs will house wombs and the coitus in death’s somnus be as fertile to beguile for a miss Mike Ferguson is an American permanently resident in the UK and published widely online. His most recent print work is the chapbook Precarious Real [Maquette Press, 2016

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Two Poems // Devin Aeh Canary

Oct 17, 2018
2 min

Two Poems // Devin Aeh Canary

the haunting i went back to Norfolk to visit our old apartment on the corner i looked up at the window half expecting to see our cats peering down at me i wonder if whoever lives there now can feel our sadness like a ghost the infestation our new dream house came with a few unpleasant surprises mold in the cabinets fleas in the carpet and hoards of spiders that crawled in to the house when the nights grew cold about the same time the white supremacists posted my name, photo,

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Call for Submissions: Vol. 6–The Halloween Issue

Sep 15, 2018
4 min

Call for Submissions: Vol. 6–The Halloween Issue

Bone & Ink is now open for submissions for our October issue. Submissions will be open for this issue from September 15, 2018 to October 24, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. PDT, and will be published on the site beginning October 1 and going until October 31. Depending on how many submissions we get/accept, I plan to publish at least one piece per day, if not more. We’re also always open for non-themed submissions, but those will not be published until vol. 7 opens in November. For this i

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Inheritance

Jun 28, 2018
1 min

Inheritance

Inheritance by Jason Dean Arnold “I was on my way someplace and got distracted and had to follow the traces of a ghost.”* into we don’t believe a former lover a redwood tree a fugitive space charged particles, archived memory carpenters carpenters we’ve never been we’ve never been collisions w/ unbeing doubles bleed me father’s nervous

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