One Eyed Florida

If there was one thing she wished popped into her mind as soon as she saw the movement near by the grey fog, it would have been run. Except, it wasn't.

Instead, she froze, as still as a statue and waited, her ears on full alert. Waiting, waiting. Her emerald-green eyes were as wide as they could be, she knew that this was a bad idea from the beginning. Yet she blamed it on her brother and thought he was foolish, even though she went along with him.

  "I'm not staying home alone after watching Insidious," was what she said. Dylan was in love with the woods. It was the whole reason the both of them moved in near the woods after finishing university. He would go there when he wasn't busy doing his job as an engineer while Leah sat in her room all day, writing her novel and keeping to herself. This time was different. He wanted to go hiking in the woods at night, alone. But Leah had come along, afraid after watching the terrifying movie she was forced to watch with her close friend just yesterday. Still too scared to stay home alone.

Foolish, foolish! She thought to herself.

"Leah, are you coming?" Her brother, Dylan called out. She hadn't realised he had walked further on. She shrieked and jogged towards him. The trees seemed to go on forever, they dissapeared into the fog and then re-appeared near by the pale moon. They were obviously old, the branches hung low, some touching the floor. Every now and then, the two had to either step over or crawl underneath them.

"Cool," Leah heard him say. She watched him bend over and heard a few dead leaves crunching and rustling. He revealed a doll with black, long hair and one eye that seemed to look deep into the pit of your soul. The other eye was nothing more but a drawn eye. The sewing was poorly done, it's arm about to fall off. It had nothing more but a black dress on with stains. It gave out a horrible odour.

"Dylan, put it away," Leah gulped. He yelped suddenly and threw the doll to the floor. Something was moving inside of it. It looked like an over-sized beetle. She felt as if she was going to be sick.

"What the hell did you do, Dylan?" She shrieked, grasping hold of his hand and pulling him to her side with force. He shook his head and attempted to speak, but all that came out was a loud yell and he was off running. Leah stood there, frozen as she was before. The doll's mouth suddenly opened and out came dust, dust and more dust. It was as if someone had put sticky glue all over the back of her converses. In front of her stood - no, floated - a man with oily, dead black hair and eyes the same as the doll.

"Get away from One Eyed Florida," it shrieked and slurred at the same time, as if drunk. The 'woman' looked exactly like the one eyed doll, except taller. It had holes in his skin, maggots and worms living inside. Leah gagged at the smell and whimpered with fear.

"Get away, get away, get away!" it kept repeating the same thing, holding One Eyed Florida in his hand and moved towards me, its nose only so far away. With its free hand, it grabbed Leah's chin and moved her head from side to side, up and down.

"Dylan!" Her scream echoed, and it made the creature growl, digging its dirty, long nails into her cheeks, blood ran down, and her tears mixed with the wound. She cried, she screamed, she thrashed about, but nothing did the trick. The creature hissed at her, scratching her face, biting her arm until all Leah could feel was pain. The creature pinned her down, Leah gave up fighting. Pain swarmed through her body as the creature did horrible things to her body. It planted kisses on her arm that made her skin feel as if it was on fire. But it did things much worse than that. Much worse. Something only the crimanlly insane known as paedophiles would do to much younger woman or men.

Leah's screams turned into silence as she was left there to die. She bled everywhere, attracting insects and voltures, crows and wild animals.

Numb to the pain, she closed her eyes.

And off she went, towards a blinding light.