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    • Your poems are very creepy, but this is my favorite of them. You do horror very well.
      Echo | 15Mar13 | More
    • Thank you. Your compliment made me very happy and I'll certainly submit some more.
      Echo | 15Mar13 | More
    • This one grabbed my attention from the get go. Very captivating. It is in the tradition of Poe's ...
      Lucas Cumiford | 30Oct12 | More
    • I really like the creepy ending. Your use of repetitive phrases gives the verses a fluid meter that keeps ...
      Lucas Cumiford | 30Oct12 | More
    • I just happened to be scrolling through the necrology emails today and yours was the first story that captured my ...
      Lucas Cumiford | 30Oct12 | More
    • I look forward to all of your submissions
      Daniel Craig Roche | 29Oct12 | More
    • Daniel, Sorry about my belated response to your nice comment about my story Crow Land. I have been a little ...
      Lucas Cumiford | 26Oct12 | More
    • This is one of the better ones I have read in a while. Ending made me happy.
      Daniel Craig Roche | 24Oct12 | More
    • Very nice. I was rooting for the main character but I still appreciate the shocking conclusion.
      Troy Massie | 18Oct12 | More
    • Wow. Not what I expected from the start. There's a really strong bond between the two characters even ...
      Troy Massie | 18Oct12 | More
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Daniel C. Roche

Laughter is an Acceptable Form of Healing

By Daniel Craig Roche     I do not know what I feel, but I know it isn’t happiness. Innocence beaten. Innocence raped. Innocence murdered.   The runt of a litter. Drowned in a bucket of water. An act performed by a local farmer.   The pain of a first (probably last) time parent. Recently [...]

12Jun2012 | | 2 comments | Continued

Souls

By Daniel Craig Roche   Meaningful gifts let you know I care, but it wasn’t good enough for you I lay awake at night, but you don’t come home. What is a man supposed to do? What was I supposed to do?   What am I supposed to be? Now that you are gone.   [...]

12Jun2012 | | 1 comment | Continued

Lunacy Death

By Daniel Craig Roche   Back in the days when your heart beat to the tune of your youthful dreams. When deep inside you knew you were destined to achieve great things. All the negativity and all the naysayer’s could be pushed aside as easily as a curtain, and every time that curtain was moved, [...]

12Jun2012 | | 2 comments | Continued

Autumn Leaves

By Daniel Craig Roche Crimson autumn leaves against a black autumn sky. Mere moments away from when they will fall and soon lie. Lie on the ground where they will rest and be forgotten, or raked into a pile where they will fester – become rotten. Rot into the ground becoming food for the worms. [...]

8May2012 | | 1 comment | Continued

Love and a dark corner

By Daniel Craig Roche Passionless kisses and sweet nothings in the ear. Meaningless moments embraced in each other’s arms. Her means and my means are not one in the same. Delicate touch under her frail white chin to remove her vision from the dark corner. Her attention focused now on the blinking red light. She [...]

8May2012 | | 1 comment | Continued

Crescent Moon Smiling

By Daniel C. Roche Why are we out here? I can sense something wrong. Now I sense fear, but she seemed oh so strong. Why does your light scream through the limbs of the trees? What do your words mean as they are carried through the breeze? The moon does not care, so ask it [...]

8May2012 | | 0 comments | Continued