JEFF SOUTH

I'm plowing through edits and revisions for the next novel, Someone Else's Book Club. The chapter I'm currently working on is when the...

This is an excerpt from my next novel, Someone Else's Book Club. The book is in its final revisions. More to come. ****** Preface to The...

We exited together… Leaving the place to its own darkness and neither of us dared look back… Stephen King, Jerusalem’s Lot “I beg your...

“My child,” he remarked, “though our episode ends, In the manner of men, I suggest we be friends.” Dorothy Parker, Fable A wretched...

Look on my works, ye Mighty, and Despair! Nothing beside remains. Percy Bysshe Shelley, Ozymandias Spencer obliged the man’s direction...

I ramble down the empty roads. All the restaurants and shops are closed… Places that witnessed so many loves Throughout the years now...

Let us leave the hateful town With its stale, forgotten lies Clark Ashton Smith, Adventure Spencer’s screams could be heard the instant...

Unseemly are the open eyes That watch the midnight sheep, That look upon the secret skies Nor close, abashed in sleep; Dorothy Parker,...

Oh, God! can I not save One from the pitiless wave? Is all that see or seem But a dream within a dream? Edgar Allan Poe, A Dream Within A...

When you uncover the veil, you’ll smell the pretense, and when you think you’ve known it all, then you’ll know you’ve known nothing at...

They say I looked back out of curiosity But I could have had other reasons Wislawa Szymborska, Lot’s Wife The creature stood in front of...

But now it seems some unseen monster lays His vast and filthy hands upon my will Alfred Lord Tennyson, Lucretius The trio reached the...

Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken The reluctant monster hunters...

You might think there are aliens, Those green and red slimy things. Meriam Joseph, It’s Just In Your Mind The high school stood stall and...

The town, betrayed by time passed, lies forsaken. Lost, lain memories, like tumbleweeds, awaken John Anderson, Abandoned The spray of...

You knew I was coming for you little one, when the kettle jumped into the fire. Louise Erdrich, Windigo “Is there a problem, my boy?” the...

It’s like so many other things in life to which you must say no or yes. So you take your car to the new mechanic. Sometimes the best...

I dreaded walking where there was no path And pressed with cautious tread the meadow swath And always turned to look with wary eye John...

Because I could not stop for Death– He kindly stopped for me Emily Dickinson, Because I Could Not Stop For Death Luke was gone. To where,...

In another dream, I was a field and you combed through me searching for something you only thought you had lost. Cecilia Llompart, Omens...