Short Stories

The Maze

I'm woken up by a loud buzzing sound. I open my eyes. It's bright, really bright, and white.

My eyes adjust to my surroundings. I'm not outside. And there aren't any doors from what I can see. The voice of a woman speaks from nowhere. "Hello Shane." She says. "What? Uh h-hello?" I say in utter confusion. "You're probably wondering what's going on... You have one hour to navigate your way out of this maze. But... If you fail to do so... Something will happen. And depending on what kind of stuff you're into, you may or may not like it. Your hour starts now. Good luck." And then her voice was gone.

I look around me. "Really?! A maze?! I'm horrible at mazes when I can see the full thing from a damned birds eyes view!" I say, now frustrated. But I need to get out of here so I start jogging down a random corridor. Not really caring where I'm going.

After about 10 minutes I've come to like the 10th dead end. "This is pointless!" I yell turning another corner. "I should just let the damned time run ou-" I spot a door at the end of this corridor. I run down to it. "We thought you might like what's behind them door. But... Be careful. We don't want you to die after only 15 minutes do we?" She speaks again. "Well that's reassuring. Whatever." I say opening the door.

It's a dark room so my eyes have to adjust again. The sound of raspy breathing and rattling chains fill my ears. "Uhm... Hello? Is there anyone in here?" I walk further into the room and see a man who looks like he somehow survived a beating to the face... With a spiked bat. I walk closer to him and he begins to growl at me. "Are you okay sir? You look like you should be kinda dead." I see he's chained to the wall. I try to get close enough to unchain him but he lunges for me. So I jump away from him. "Whoa! Listen here Dave," I named him Dave 'cause I didn't know his real name. "I'm trying to help you. So don't be a dick. Kay?" he continues to growl at me. "Okay, whatever. Hey what's that? On your chain?" I walk closer to attempt to inspect the object on the chain. But yet again he lunges for me.

I look around the room to see if there is anything that I can use to keep him away from me. I find one of those stick things with the thing that grabs stuff at the end. The one you use on animals. You know what I'm talking about? I grab it and put the grabber part around Dave's neck and walk in a kinda circle thing around him and undo his chain from the wall so the object will fall off it. I then reattach the chain to the wall and pick the object up. It's a box. I keep the grabby thing on his neck until I'm far enough away so he doesn't hurt me.

I walk towards the door and just as I reach it I hear more raspy breathing and rattling chains. I turn around and see Dave and like 6 other things like him. I've determined that these... Things are zombies. One reason is because they look and smell like they should be dead. And the other reason?they are trying to eat my fucking face off right now! "Shit!" I yell running for the door. I get to the door and shut it on one of their hands. "Oops. Sorry... I hope they aren't intelligent enough to operate doors." I say as I walk away from the door and I step on a finger or two and open the box. It's a water bottle and a sandwich. "So worth it." Note the sarcasm. I eat the food and drink the water as I walk down a new corridor.

I see a small figure a small distance down the corridor. I reach said figure and find its a small child zombie. Looks to be about 1 or so. "Awh. So cute. Terrifying. But cute nonetheless." I say as he sees me and toddles over to me. "I think I'll name you Jaykob." He growls at me. Then the voice comes back. "30 minutes Shane. Better hurry." She's getting on my nerves. "Fuck off." Is my response, even though she can't hear me. I think. But I walk past Jaykob without him eating me, and turn a new corner in hopes to find my way out of this damned maze. I guess I made a wrong turn because there was about 6 or 7 zombies waiting for me around this corner. They start to run at me.

Yet again I dodge the terrifyingly cute baby zombie that is known as Jaykob. And run down the corridor and turn left. Then right. Then left again. Then came upon a yet another dead end and turned around and just got past the zombies before they could turn down this corner to devour me. I continue running and one hits my back and I speed up in fear. I turn one last corner. I have a feeling this is the right way.

Man was I wrong...

This corner was the last corner I will ever turn. You wanna know why? Well you see. This corner that I decided to turn just so happened to have a bunch of zombies just standing there. So I had like 6 right behind me and about 20 in front of me. "Fuck. I'm definitely dead. No way I'm getting out of this one." I say as I accept my fate. I feel a pain in my leg and see the overall wearing baby Jaykob trying to eat me. "You are a traitor Jaykob." I say as I pick him up and slide down the wall. I sit him in my lap and just wait for death. The zombies eventually get to me and start to devour me. It's so painful.

"You have failed... Bye Shane." I here as my world starts to fade. "Bye bitch." I say as I slip into the welcoming darkness of death.