Clare Graith

New Lease Available!

August 27, 2026

How may I help you? I’m looking for a new lease on life. That is available, but it will cost you. What? I thought all I had to do was show up. I’m glad you’ve reached this place, but to make the most of this new agreement, you need the right equipment. What equipment? You’ll…
Room For Change

August 26, 2026

Some people make their bed, And lie in it, Forever. I say, Get up, pull the covers off, And take a look around. What do you see? Is this the room you want to sleep in? Can you even rest here? You don’t have to roll onto the cold floor, Abandon sleep, Give up on…
Gazer

August 18, 2026

I looked up at the sky and thought, Haven’t I seen this sky before? The blue, the puffy clouds, The sun shining from the left; All so familiar. Is it a program? Is this day a repeat? Yes, ten, twenty, thirty, maybe infinitely, this sky crossed my vision, connecting my days, Telling me: The sky…
Nightmares and Horror Stories

August 8, 2026

I walk on floors that shake. Dark corners have eyes peering from them. The water rises on both sides of a road with nothing but a thin sapling of a tree to hold unto. I can’t find my way back home. My fingers can’t type a phone number, and I can’t remember it anyway. Whoever…
Flea Market Finds- Books

August 1, 2026

There’s nothing like perusing a flea market on a lazy day, especially a market on the side of a road with booths set up under canopies. The kind where sellers spread out a wide array of wares … okay, junk, from every decade since the forties. There’s no rhyme or reason to what’s presented. Nine…
Strange Event of the Day

July 20, 2026

It skittered across the concrete, Masquerading as a bit of dry grass, A humble seed floating, Right under the feet of the cat, The very same creature that hunted down, Spiders as small as pencil points, And ate them. This little speck of movement, Losing its randomness between the cat’s paws, Caught my eye. I…