Terri Nixon's Writings
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Short Story
Jun.06.2010
Chill 2002. Published by BeWrite.
Nightrise
By
TERRI Nixon
If she hadn’t done it, it would have been okay.
But she had.
She had used her strength to thwart his plans.
She shouldn’t have done it.
Now he would have to face it alone.
It was over quickly, it shouldn’t have happened that way.
She should have let him…let nature take them through their relationship...
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Short Story
Jun.06.2010
HOMECOMING.
By Terri Nixon.
“Borstal, for fuck’s sake, leave it!” Jez watched his companion debate for a moment then drop the wallet back onto the ground with a sigh. He sighed too; being twice the kid’s age didn’t automatically make him responsible. Then again, there wasn’t anyone else.
But so what, anyway? Borstal was eighteen, old enough to have got...
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Short Story
Mar.07.2009
Thirteen Magazine
The Guardians
It was every bit as dark as he remembered. He shone his torch around the walls, illuminating the immediate area – cool stone, rounded contours, grey-green lichen glowing eerily in the beam of his maglite.
She was at his back, pushing at him. Irritating as hell, but then, she’d started getting to him as soon as they had stepped onto the moor...
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Short Story
Mar.07.2009
A Tooth For A Tooth
It started like any other Christmas. Then it all went wrong, and of course they called me in to clean up the mess. Which was how I found myself hanging on for dear life by my fingertips, sweat trickling into my eyes, and the hands on the church clock...
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Poem
Mar.03.2009
Bittersweet.
How bittersweet, a mother's love,
The iron hand in velvet glove,
Whose strength must always be enough.
She gives them all her years.
Such tainted joy as babies grow;
A mother's heart will always know
That someday she must let them go.
She hides her secret fears.
How strong the love, how sure and deep,
She'll hold them...
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Poem
Mar.03.2009
Chill - by Terri Pine (Nixon) Peter Lee and Andrew J Muller
From Me To You
A Vampire's Song.
I am your friend, I love you so,
And now
I want
To let you know:
I have a gift, from me to you.
I'll watch you while you sleep.
Your heart cries out to me, it burns.
I'll take it,
Keep it
In return
For something pure, from me to you.
I'll wait while shadows creep.
My skin, so pale, will soon be flushed
With...
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In "Nightrise", the tale of a serial killer's delusions becoming reality, (Nixon's) narrative is particularly sharp. She brings you into the mind of a serial killer as he "courts" his victims and builds the delusions he uses to rationalize his crimes. Her use of asides gives us a second view into the killer's mind”
—Thomas Staab; Infinity Plus
About Terri
Born and raised in the South West of England, and still lives there with youngest son. Writing from a young age (largely rubbish, of course) and now starting to look for an agent for (hopefully slightly less rubbish) full length work. Has contributed to...
Connections
Terri’s Favorite Books
The Stand; The Talisman; The Outlander series; Women Of The Otherworld series; Discworld series; Pendragon Cycle; The Dresden Files