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The Nameless Town

Stay out of the breeze...

By Becky ArthursPublished 4 years ago 3 min read
The Nameless Town
Photo by Doruk Yemenici on Unsplash

November 2016, A woman by the name of Joanne Forester stays in a small coastal town close to the airport and conference center during a business trip. The first night she is there she checks into her small cottage on the beach. Joanne heads for a walk on the beach, its cool so she has it to herself. As she walks the sky darkens, the reflection on the water growing black. As the water and the sky above her darkens and swirls she feels her body, out of her control, walk her into the water. She never shows up to her meetings nor does she come home.

March 2017, Joanne's daughter Maria boards an airplane after months of trying to get answers about her mother. She arrives where her mother was last seen and finds signs stating that the area is a Conservation area and that there is no trespassing. Maria knows this is the last place her mother was and that something is not right so she waits until dark falls and sneaks under the fence. Maria walks for hours before she finds what is making the only light and noise around, a large prison sized building. She can see military guards all around the outside the rest of the town has been taken down to the ground and lays empty. As the breeze blows up around her she smells the water and is suddenly drawn to the beach, so drawn it scares her, so by the dawns early light she runs away from the beach. Away from the town.

November 2019, The Nameless Town was released. Maria used a pen name to be taken more seriously. Tom Carter. She wrote of her mother, and her trip there and what she saw, what she felt. A prison full of people who were held there, who seemed not to know they were there. Her mother among them she was sure.

January 2020, flights start heading towards the Central Media airport, they're all headed to the same place. Slowly people arrive and after two weeks there are so many people at the gates that they finally come together and break them down. The people flood the area, about 300 people all together, amazed and drawn to the peculiar story. They start planning, talking, trying to decide which way to go to find the prison when all of a sudden the breeze picks up violently around them with the smell of the water. They all turn and start towards the beach even as they protest and try to take back control and then they all walk, unable to stop themselves into the water. Slowly, like a tidal wave eyes start shutting and heads begin to droop, the water, the wind and the people all go still. The silence deafening, no one moving, blinking, breathing. Then without warning all necks snap up, all eyes snap open. A sea of black void less eyes turn and walk towards the prison. The military has formed a defense around the building, they caught the first few to slide in under fences but there were swarms of them at the gate and they were all going to get through at some point. Then they came, silent so you do not hear them until they are on top of you. Then faster then the tranquil darts can fly the dark eyed beings begin to float forward snapping the guards necks without even touching them, just with a turn of their own heads.

February 2020, Joanne Forestor was the first of the dark eyed beings, she murdered an entire town and the Military built a prison to hold her. Now hundreds of dark eyed beings float from the nameless town towards civilization. The water changed them, and soon they will be all that is left of this earth.

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Becky Arthurs

Fiction, Fantasy, Magic and Myth

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