When I lay down to sleep yesterday I was plagued by nightmares. And for the first time in a while, they were scarier than real life. The first one was another memory. A memory of my life before The Company....
"Anya what have you done!" My husband stared at me in horror as he focused on the blood dripping from my hads. Our daughter was dead now. There was nothing left to do to help her. Both our hearts broke as the falling snow covered her lifeless body. There was nothing left to do.
Reliving the worst memory of your life. One could imagine that that would be the ultimate nightmare. The worst thing you could relive in the world. But the next dream, the next torture almost pushed me to the edge of who I was...
"Anya what have you done!" The fear in my husbands eyes solidified as he died in my arms. He stood before me an invisible smile playing on his bisected face. It was my fault that my husband was dead. He was the only thing I had left now.
As you can probably already guess, I only had more questions when I woke up.
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What May Seem
Short StoryAnya has signed her life away for the promise of knowledge. But the people she's working for, The Company, keep many secrets. A creature that she's been charged with experimenting on for them is surprisingly not the scariest one. Will Anya be able t...
