2020 Book Eleven: Twisted Stories/Unhinged Poems

By Matthew Tonks

You hold in your hands a piece of a puzzle far grander than you could ever know. For scrawled in blood upon the pages are stories twisted twenty in all, soaked in the embers of my insanity. Five minutes to glimpse inside the eyes of someone new, five minutes to answer, five minutes to sin, five minutes to do almost anything. A god, a demon, a harlot, a whore. A fascist, a killer, a sinner, a door. Death and division, humanity askew. A belfry of bats, a sea of black cats, so many moments out there to see, so many things you could see with me. So take a seat beside me and call it voodoo, because now you ride with me too...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Matthew Tonks
• Release date: Jul 16, 2021
• ISBN: 9781005596101

Matthew Tonks

Together we ride the steed of madness, along a road long foretold. Do not let the dire consequences scare you from this journey, for it is written, so it must be. We traveller. We explorers of otherworldly things. Let us share our providence, so we may all prosper.Hidden in the depths of it all, you will find your utopia, and it will be a beautiful sight to witness.For I may walk beside you, and I may carry your umbrella in the sun, just don’t expect me to dig you up, when the zombie apocalypse comes...

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The Stories

See It Shine

The diamond spins without fault or fancy above them, capturing the essence of their stare within it.

D-D-Do you think it kn-knows? she says softly, gripping his hand tightly.

Do I think it knows what?

She rolls her eyes and looks at him with a grizzly glare of frustration. You know, what we did.

He smirks broadly and brings his gaze to meet hers. We haven’t really done anything, yet anyway. He says as he grips the back of his neck and kneads it like dough.

She looks back up at it and purses her lips together as she wiggles her nose like a sixty’s genie would. We won’t be doing anything more if you continue to act like that, and you know that’s not what I meant.

He laughs nervously, I know, and I didn’t mean for it to sound the way it did. he says as his gaze moves back to the diamond as well. Do you think it knows? he asks.

Without hesitation she hooks a punch into his arm.

WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO THAT FOR!

Because you’re a jerk!

What? he says with a wry smile upon his face. You literally started it, I was just echoing your question.

You mean repeating it, to be a jerk.

He laughs loudly and pushes her away gently. If anyone here is a jerk, it’s you, not me.

Why does it have to be me? Why can’t it be YOU?

Because you’re the one who tried to sabotage the dig site, which in turn created that bloody thing that’s hovering in the sky. So you’re the one who started it all, and you’re the JERK!

She stands looking at him with clenched fists, grinding her teeth from side to side. She lets out a stuttered breath and turns back to the diamond object that spins high above them. Doesn’t mean I’m the jerk here, and don’t you dare think I’m going down on my own, you helped, you were part of it all!

I only wanted to get in your pants, that’s all. Anything that actually happened had nothing to do with me, I was just emotional support.

You don’t have a dick, she hisses.

He stares at her with a confused scowl upon his face, then pulls down his pants, and grips his flaccid penis. This look like nothing to you?

She furrows her brow, and grimaces. Is it alive?

He looks down and then back up at her, What the FUCK is that supposed to mean? OF COURSE IT’S ALIVE!

Really? It doesn’t look alive right now.

His face glows bright red, and he quickly pulls his pants back up. T-T-T-That’s because I’m not in the mood, okay! he says through clenched teeth. As he zips up the zipper, he catches some of the extra skin from his penis in its teeth and lets out a silent scream while his left eye twitches uncontrollably.

What the fuck is wrong with you now? she asks with a sigh of frustration.

M-M-M-MY COCK! he screams as she pulls his hands away to reveal a flab of throbbing flesh ground in the zipper. Without a second’s hesitation she empties the contents of her stomach at his feet.

Feel My Curve

I can’t see you for what you want me to see, for you are the endless nights away from the world I wish to be part of. We, you and I, or whatever it is you think we are, that, us, we can never be. he says as he drops the blade and stumbles forward to his knees letting an endless breath escape his blood-stained lips.

You are a foolish braggart then, if you believe the words that just escaped your lying lips!

I-I-I, I would rather be referred to as foolish, than to be the fool in o-our story.

He laughs, gripping his belly with gusto. BUT DON’T YOU SEE, YOU ARE! he bellows. "You are the fool, because you have