The Man of Many Hats

Chapter 10

There was a man stuffed into a limb of a pine tree. Blood ran down the pine needles. On one of the limbs was a party hat and a note. It read 9of15! He was excited. Time was almost up.

I got the groceries I needed and headed home. My day was just a normal old day. I'll skip it.

I walked into my room that night. The hat got sucked to the pile. It was in my van. When it sensed me the hat got sucked in. Crap!

I fell asleep. My dream was about a field. It had a maze. I was running. I turned around, and the man was standing there. I kept running. I came upon the pole. The man was standing there. I turned away. I saw the tree the man was sitting there. I turned. I saw the dead new reporter. I turned. I saw the rest of the deaths. The man was beside them all. All of a sudden. He drops in front of me. His glasses are off.

"Wake up! Wake up, Richard!"

I woke up. My mom was sitting there.

"Rich, you've been screaming all night long!"

I looked at the clock. It was eight. I got up.

"Have you been having night terrors?"

"You could say that."

"You're going to the counselor."

She called him. A few minutes later she said,

"Make that tomorrow! His list is full."

My eyebrow raised. I walked downstairs. I got my breakfast. I ate it quickly. I started to leave. My mom stopped me.

"I'm running errands today! You stay home."

She left. I turned on the tv. It was on the news. Guess what the headline was. Crazy kid warns us about himself. I smiled. Idiots. I turned the channel.

I turned off the tv. I started outside. I stopped myself. I got some food and sat back down. I was extremely bored. There was a knock on the door. I looked out. It was some advertiser. He eventually left.

Nothing else happened that day.