The Nightmare And The Children
A Story Inspired By The Artwork Of "A Young Person's Guide To King Crimson"
When the children went to sleep, the Nightmare began to play his keyboard. Their bodies slept and all seemed well, but their souls left their bodies and rode on the back of the spiral night dog, up and up the hill to where the Nightmare was playing.
They laughed as they rode, not knowing that the Nightmare had plans to take them and feed them to the spiral night dog, so it would become even bigger to bring the Nightmare even more souls.
The Nightmare had no reason for doing this, but he still played his music and would not stop because he had once been a child and mourned the loss of his childhood, and poured his grief into his playing and growing the spiral night dog.
The Nightmare was once a child, but was now a demon who played on top of the cursed hill.
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Comments (4)
I'll admit, I blinked and had to reread the story when I got to the end! I wasn't expecting something so quietly disturbing. It was a bit like a disquieting dream. Good work!
Creepy little micro. One day, the spiral dog will have a hard time going up and down the hill, and it'll become the entangled dog lol ;)
The idea of grief transforming into something monstrous is powerful. It gives the story emotional weight beneath its eerie fantasy surface.
Cute—if a bit creepy—little fable. Kind of reminds me of the Pied Piper but with a demon. Nicely done.