I received many excellent entries for the Goreletter’s “Mess Up My Fridge” contest last month. Now my refrigerator is truly damned. So many strange entries came in that I couldn’t just pick one winner…but FOUR, which all tied for first place. For prizes, everyone received a free Arnzen poetry book — and anyone who entered was e-mailed a free Bitpasss for access to The Sickolodeon, just for playing!
Below are the winning entries. Didn’t win? Eager for more? The “review race” contest for Play Dead is still on! Be among the first subscribers to post a “customer review” of my new novel on amazon.com, bn.com, ProjectPulp.com, or some other online bookseller, and you could win a free book, (no matter what you say)!
THE WINNERS
Soft belly babies
Two hearts strong rhythm–stiff hooks
Both splitting wetly
— Stephen M. Wilson
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blind casket petfood
mouse balloons and memory
cat embalmed in milk
— Cameron Pierce
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Squalid brain balloons,
Memory writhing inside,
Gleam with mad wonder.
— Tanya Twombly
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Embalmed skin costume
Naked writhing locked inside
Wet with casket worms
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
Cat paws out the heart
Of the dead mouse as it spurts
And it tastes like milk.
— Barbara Bates
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Dead memory worm
writhing inside wet brain chunks
with unstoppable rhythm.
— Kathy B.
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Haiku will never be the same again. The contest is over, but you can always post fridge magnet poetry on “The Damned Fridge” at gorelets.com