Michael Mulvihill (Ireland)
WRITER’S HEAD ON A STICK
Michael Mulvihill was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1978. He eventually, in his late teens, became a bookworm completing degrees up to the Master’s Level in Addiction Studies, Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Social Sciences. His initial fictional work was surreal short stories of horror which have been featured numerously in Black Petals, an online horror science fiction zine. He branched out to write an apocalyptic, post-Soviet horror novel, Siberian Hellhole, which was translated and published in Georgia. His latest novel, Syriacide, features The Syrian War. He is an avid reader of history and is fascinated by world events, South Africa, the USSR, and the philosophical idea of a dystopian society. At the moment he is writing a dystopian novel. An avid martial artist and film buff, he trains constantly in Kenpo Karate and loves to also relax whilst watching films.
They used to shoot the messenger,
But this horde wanted gore,
A torture and a killing from the days of yore,
A piece were writ that had too much grit,
It told truth,
Stung a few living demons that wanted blood,
And thus was vowed there shall be blood,
Off went the writer’s hands thrown to starving dogs,
Plucked out of sockets went his pair of eyes,
Knee-capped by a shotgun as a chainsaw started on,
When all was done his body remains was fed to crocodiles in a zoo,
As this horde, this cult of death,
Raised their flag outside a mansion,
And placed the writer’s head on a stick,
A thick stick yes,
But none the less a stick,
The hurly-burly was done,
What was achieved in this?
