Winds roaring with poisonous gas
Angry thunderbolts hit with a flash
Earthquakes cluster to damage the berths
Fire raining down upon the earth
Smoke and ash that leads to disease
Don’t open the door, it’s not our Marie
Darkness, cold, roaring winds
The sun has been blackened, the famine begins
Mountains sunken, islands doomed
Stars fallen, powers removed
God’s wrath, who will escape,
The day like no other,
The Lord’s judgment day.
—Victoria Regina
Vickey Ivey lives in Bakersfield. Her dream is to be a horror writer. Some of her favorite writers are Steven King, Edgar Allan Poe, Christopher Fowler, and Anne Rice. She writes because, “My late father read horror stories to me as a child; and, writing enables me to unveil the underlining horrible truth that’s hidden within us all . . . fear.”