The Dark

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The shadows move around me and the candle's bright flame licks at the oxygen in the air. The cold night wind whispers across the lonesome moors. I sit in the corner of my old room as the dust swirls around me like lethal smoke. I sit there rocking back and forth. Replaying the scene over and over again in my head. The blood. The screams. The horror. Tears prickle at my eyes causing them to go bloodshot. In my arms the doll. Something of a nightmare. A missing eye leading into its unforgiving soul. But to me it's all I have.

The dark, it haunts me. It kills me from the inside like moths that chew at a mattress till there's nothing left but the bones. The fear of the unknown, the fear of nothing but blackness that goes on forever.

All of a sudden a scream sent a shiver across my spine. A scream I have heard one too many times before. On the night of the incident. Where I lost it all. It all fell from beneath me like shards of broken glass. To this very day it is fresh on my mind like it has been seared on with a red hot poker.

Panic quickly ran through my veins as I climbed the creaky stairs. Past the old battered paintings that lined the walls. I climbed the attic stairs two at a time, closed the shaft and locked it. My heart pounded and millions of emotions drowned me. What was that? Was the killer back for another taste of that thick red liquid. Back for more. I sit trembling against the wall as the air breaths its cold breaths down my bare neck.

Should I go out? Face him face to face. Or should I stay trapped in this world of horror were flash back haunt me and I feel as though nothing is there to save my soul. 

 

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⏰ Last updated: Nov 27, 2017 ⏰

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