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Nightmares
It
stood in the corner. A monster from the depths of my nightmares manifested into
physical form, towering over my bed with flushed white eyes. Its body was
black. It had sharp features yet no face, a giant dark mass with long arms and
fingers with claws at each end. I shivered when I saw its head. It was
dominated by one thing; a mouth. Red on the inside, black on the outside, lined
with layers of jagged yellow teeth of a shark. Even though it had no eyes, I
could feel its stare. The mouth itself seemed to be looking at me, watching me,
gazing down into my soul, and at my body.
It was like a hunter examining its prey before the attack.
I pulled the comforter over my head
and hid beneath the vibrant colors of the floral pattern. I started to pray in
whispers for angels and sunshine to banish the black back to hell; but no
trumpet sounded. No light ever came. The room grew quiet. The air stale in the
silence. The world slowed down. Time stood still. The clock ticking on the wall
in a steady heartbeat faded and then died. I felt my own heart die as well.
Then came the attack.
The
floorboards creaked, the walls gave silent screams, and the children's toys, on
the floor in a disarray mess, closed their eyes. The covers were ripped off of
me and thrown into the air. I watched in slow motion as the creature came
towards me. It's black form twisted inhumanly as it got onto my bed and climbed
up to me.
There
was no time, the clock had stopped, and the scream in my throat that wanted to
come out never did. Instead the vibrations rang in my head and rattled my eyes
as the demon jumped on top of me.
It
pushed me down, its weight crushing me into the soft pillow mattress as it
locked my arms and legs in place. I did struggle, I tried to escape, but it
over powered me. It had played this game before and I hadn't. It knew my moves
before I did and countered me at every turn.
"Come
play with me," it whispered in a voice I knew but could not place. It
touched me, and I couldn’t stop it. It laughed a sinister chuckle that bounced
off the walls and pierced my ears. Its mouth got closer and closer until I was
looking down a dark tunnel that led into a boiling stomach.
Every
touch burned my skin with fingerprints as it grabbed a hold of me and started
to chew away. Its teeth dug into my flesh with a horrid hunger. I never felt
such dread. I kept saying, "Wake up. Wake up." But it answered:
"You
are awake."
The
demon devoured me, piece by piece; first my childhood, then my dreams. It went
deeper, dug inside and consumed all my smiles and memories. Deeper; munching
away my fate into oblivion. Then eventually, it swallowed me whole; my body, my
innocence.
The clock started to
tick again and the monster gone. But in my dreams I still see his face and how I'll never be the same
again
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