Untold Thoughts: A Collection of Short Stories

2 - The Basement

  Sandra Beckham always had trouble sleeping at night. Every night, she would have nightmares about her creepy old basement that she never went in. She had stored the basement key in a drawer of her grandmother's antique desk. She dreamt of going into the basement, held by fear. Once she reached the bottom of the stairs leading into the basement, the door slammed shit behind her and was unable to be opened. Sandra shined her flashlight around the room and stopped to show a shiny, charcoal colored seed in the center of the room. She instantly recognized the object as the infamous Devil's Seed. Sandra began to back away slowly as the old grandfather clock that her husband had stored in the basement began to chime. Sandra flashed the light onto the clockface to see that it had struck midnight. After the twelve chimes, Sandra's black cat began to his and claw on the other side of the basement door. Then, a very bright red light began to form around the seed as it made crackling noises. The light got brighter with each crack that was made, eventually cracking open enough for a creepy hand to spawn out of the seed. The hand then grew out of the seed, eventually forming into a demonic form that even Sandra couldn't miss-identify. It was the Devil himself, and he wants fresh human blood...