Alone The dry blood that coats my face irritates me, I tense my face in a feeble attempt to bring myself some relief but none comes. The chains at my wrists have been there for so long they have embedded themselves into my flesh and my eyelids grow heavy from lack of sleep. Bodies are strewn at my feet, #lifeless and pale. One of them, an elderly man, died with his eyes open. Those eyes have watched me since I was chained to this accursed wall. "Can you feel it? The others said they did," a gruff voice rang throughout the room "Your heart beginning to slow down and your blood beginning to freeze" He was right, the room was so cold. Most of the others had died of hypothermia. I exhaled deeply and a cloud of condensation was forced from my lungs. "You know... we have been talking for weeks now and I never did ask who you were." There was a long moment of silence and I though the man I was speaking to had finally stopped breathing, but after a while his voice came again. It was weaker than the last time, he was struggling. "I'm just another lost soul." I laughed weakly and then spat on the floor. "Thats not what I asked you. Who are you really." After another long pause he spoke again. "I'm no one." "I've been speaking to you for weeks!" I shouted, my vocal chords beginning to destroy themselves "Tell me who you are!" "I am no one... You're the last one. I died weeks ago. You were so lonely that you kept me alive in your imagination." I spat on the floor again and began to laugh again. "What are you talking about?" "Goodbye Matt. You will be with your family soon.' As he said those words I realised just how quiet The room was. I was alone.

Death Blossoms In The Dark Me and Toni walked together across the park while the rain hammered down on top of us. Toni was shaking and she pressed her head against my chest while she spoke to me. "I, I don't get how he can just disappear like that. He-" "He'll be fine. Trust me, I bet he is just pissin' around." Even as I said the words I didn't believe them. The hand that gripped Max around the shoulder was still fresh in my memory. Long yellow nails and warped finger that hug from a dying grey hand. "Shit, he's not coming back is he?" I whispered to myself. "What?" Toni said pulling her head away from me. "Nothing." She sighed and put her head back on my chest. When Max disappeared, me and Toni had stumbled about the park for a few minutes calling his name, we though it was a joke. After about half an hour though, we began to sober up and realised that something had happened. We found blood dripping from one of the swings and that was when Toni began to panic. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ After a few minutes we reached corner where me and Toni had to split to get to our houses. "You go home and I'll see you in the morning. We can talk then." I said giving Toni a hug.

Death Blossoms In The Dark. I always believed that monsters couldn't see you in the dark... I was wrong though. --------------------------------- OCTOBER, 3, 2012 HUNSFORD, ENGLAND --------------------------------- CHATPER 1 'Just do it, come on.' 'Yeah, no one is even going to notice.' I slouched back on the Broken park bench and clenched my fists while Toni and Max tried to win me over. I knew that eventually I would have to go with them. "Come on, it'll be a laugh." Toni said as she lay back on the grass. "Please!" Jake moaned over the end of her sentence. It was dark and the only light in the area came from the only grotty streetlight that worked on the road next to the park. Jake took a puff of his cigaret and then threw it to the floor without putting it out. "Ok, I'll come with you!" I said standing up. Toni reached her hands towards me from the ground and I gripped them and pulled her up. "All the CCTV's broken so we can just run in there with our hoods up and take the first bottle we find, preferably the more expensive one." Toni said with newfound energy. I nodded and we all began to walk towards the road. On the other side was the corner shop all of the kids stole alcohol from. Like Toni said, all of the CCTV was broken and the owner couldn't afford to fix it so it made an easy target. As we approached the door to the shop we all put our hoods up in unison and pushed open the door. "Oh shit, not you kids again!" the man behind the till shouted immediately. Toni turned to me and smiled. "Grab it and get out of here!" she shouted as we ran towards the shelves with the alcohol. All three of us grabbed a bottle, I didn't even pay attention to the bottle I took. By the time we were back to the door the man behind the till still hadn't moved, he just shook it head. "To hell with the lot of you!" he shouted. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "Oh my god, did you see his face?' Toni took a swig of her Vodka and then spat it out laughing. "You bloody lightweight!" Jake said inbetween puffs of another cigaret he had taken out. We all sat back in the park, our bottles almost empty, talking about the first thing our drunken minds could think off when we heard a cough behind us. "Shit, it's the..." Jake began but was cut off as a hand gripped him around his neck. He dropped his bottle on the concrete and the glass shattered across me and Toni as he was dragged back into the darkness. "What the hell was that?" Toni pushed herself up from the ground and staggered around for a moment. "Where.... where the hell did Jake go?"

Just A Dream? The man in front of me stood tall wearing a bright green suit, yellow waist coat and a red tie. He was old but his dominant blue eyes took years off of him. Intrigued by his whole presence I put one hand forward to shake his but he suddenly jumped back. 'Watch out! You might step on the dolphin.' he suddenly wailed while Throwing his arms above his head. I gave him a confused look but at That very moment a Dolphin appeared in front of me. 'Where did this dolphin come from?' I asked 'we aren't even in the sea!' 'But we are.' the man said. And at that very moment we fell into the ocean. 'I can't swim!' I called. 'But you can fly!' In an instant I was flying hight in the sky. The harsh wind was passing through my hair and I stuck my tongue out in hopes to lick a cloud. I looked to my side and the man was flying besides me with a huge grin on his face. 'How is this happening?' I called. And then the man stopped. 'It isn't.' I awoke in my room. It was pitch black but after a moment I found the lamp besides my bed and turned it on. Taking deep breaths I calmed myself down. 'Few, it was just a dream.' 'But it wasn't.' a voice said.

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