

Obsession-PART IFrom 'Tales of the Insanity':Obsession-PART I
A Tale of 'Obsession'
by V.L.Smith
"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Edgar Allen Poe, 'Eleanora'
I tell you this tale, lost not in the euphoria of love nor in the cloy of it either, but conquered in its terrorizing results. However, being that I am an honest man, I must admit that it is not love's conquest that has decreased me to such degrees, but the brutal scourge of obsession, love's lurid brethren, that has defeated me. Finally, in honesty I claim, it is I to impugn....


DarknessThis darkness, oh this darkness, a healthful hopeful friend. This bleakness, oh this gloom, it be a shepard to the end. This shadow, oh this shroud,Darkness
'tis my brethren, 'tis my ken. Doomed would I be, dieing, to walk the light again...


Scarlet HandsFrom Tales of the Insanity:Scarlet Hands
Scarlet Hands
By V.L. Smith
Many thought of him as one with the beasts. He was, in a sense, a beast himself one would assume by all appearances. Nevertheless, his relationship with Fiend and Man would evoke no such question of concern. He was a serene young man.
In the foundation or his younger years, around age seven or eight, he was noted the wild child by or his siblings. During those times his love for creatures had begun. On one such occasion, upon discovering their sons unique kinship with beasts, his parents showe