THE ANIMAL CIRCUS SHOW
My name is Mariam Jones. My story started long ago when I was 8 years old. I was a curious kid. I was used to having weird dreams, but one night they got worse.
My mom was in the army and my dad worked with training animals for the circus. Mom I rarely saw, but my dad was always there for me.
I started to have these odd dreams about the circus. The first was about an elephant. But then, the surroundings of the elephant turn blood red and the elephant stands on it's hind legs. It turns around and it has bloodshot eyes. It cackles an evil laugh, but then I woke up.
Ever since, I had the same dream but with different animals. I couldn't stand it anymore so I talked to my dad. He said it was just nightmares. I said it really wasn't and it had some kind of meaning. Dad sent me up to my room to think about it and collect myself. I did. I fell asleep thinking about it that night. Was it just a nightmare?
That night my nightmare showed the lions eating each other. And my dad was there. He said, "Honey, it's all ok. You will be ok when we are through with you!" His face changed and his outfit changed. He was dressed like he was in the show. *How can an 8 year old have dreams like this? Am I insane? *I asked dad to take me with him to work. Man, did he like that. He showed me around and I went off on my own. I walked into the main tent and there were all the circus animals hanging from their necks, burning and dead. It wreaked of burning flesh! I screamed and ran. I saw dad but he wasn't normal.
Dad spun around dressed just like he was in the dream. He looked as if he were on fire! He laughed and said, " Haha I have you now!" He reached out towards me and everything goes black. I wake up in some place dark and flaming. I asked where I was, and a booming voice screeches " THE UNDERWORLD! HADES! MY DWELLING!"
I said, "No, No NO! I'm only eight! Mommy where are you?!" The figure turns and screeches once more. It is a hideous hairless monster that crawls on four legs. It's Mom. Thousands of dead circus animals come out of the shadows and start to close in on me. I SCREAM! Everything fades to black.
I wake up and I can't see anything but white. I wondered if I died. But the scene focuses and I'm in my bed. What the heck happened? That's what I am wondering. I hear mom walk in and I don't bother to go see her. Even though she just returned from war. Why would I want to go see her after that nightmare I just had? I hear her say to Dad, " Did she have them? Did she have the nightmares?" I run up to them. But then I wonder, Is this gonna be another trick? She slowly turns and smiles a sinister smile at me. "UH OH." She walks toward me. "Hello honey, aren't you glad I'm back?" Her eyes turn black. She starts to flame. She reaches out for me...
*Is this really happening? No it can't be! This must be another nightmare, it just has to be! Doesn't it? Will they ever end? Or will I be stuck in the realm of nightmares forever? *
She screeches at me. I say, "NO! Daddy don't let mommy do this!" She grabs my arm and I am unable to free myself. I scream, kick, and do anything else I can think of. All of a sudden, another Mom comes rushing in! She pulls a gun out of a plant by the window. She shoots the "mom" that is holding me. It falls to the ground and burns into ashes. Mom, the real one, comes and gives me a hug. I tell her about Dad. She slowly turns around and she shoots him too. He doesn't do the same as the thing that had me. Instead he bleeds like a regular human. "NO!"
"Honey I'm so sorry!" ,Mom says. It turns out he wasn't a demon, but just possessed by one. Dad was always there for me and now he's gone! Dad is dead but it isn't our fault. We didn't know.
Mom explained that ever since she was a little girl a demon cursed her. She was to bring nightmares upon children. Horrifying nightmares. One day she accidentally gave herself nightmares of a thing that looked like her, tall, skinny, dark hair. And it was the devil. It came true. The devil wreaked havoc on her and now me. She has had horrific things happen to her because of the curse, but there was nothing she could do. We have lived with nightmares our whole lives. She gives herself them so I'm not alone. She still delivers nightmares to children to this day. She may be dead now, but her spirit lives on and does her work. FOR ALL ETERNITY. I grew up working in a circus. I still look for a way to free us from our horrible eternal job. For now, WATCH OUT KIDS, THE ANIMALS ARE COMING SOON IN YOUR NIGHTMARES...
