The creatures crept from every crevice in the room. They seeped through the air appearing from shadows. Not one touched me, but they all had power over me. I jumped as each one appeared. I was petrified, but when one grabbed the bed right next to me, that was it. I needed you, more than you'll ever know. With one flick of the light, they fled back to the Hell from which they came. Leaving me with only my thoughts, their figures ever more etched on my mind. You drift back to sleep. It scares me more than you know. That one day I'll become to odd for you. I wish I could make someone understand the Hell in which I live. It's demoralizing for a rational human being to have such terrifying illusions that rip their brain apart from the inside. I wish I could just tell you what's going on, but there are no words. I'm not even sure I know myself. All I know now is I'm terrified to fall back asleep.
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Ashen Dystopia
It was all she had left. The one solitary reminder that life had not always been this way. Something solid to hold on to. She knew had this one piece of herself not survived, she could easily question her entire previous existence. After all, no one talked about it anymore. The ashen and dark world before her had swallowed the memory of any previous way of life. It was that sadness and depression that swallowed more survivors than the explosion itself. She held tight though; she knew that is what they would have wanted. She could not give up, not yet. So, with vigor and strength, she rose from the ashes surrounding her makeshift camp and clasped the delicate chain securely around her neck. The heart shaped locket bounced softly against her chest with each determined step. Like a small heartbeat, it gave her the hope to move on. If this small symbol of her mother could survive maybe her brother was still alive too.
By Paige Baker5 years ago in Fiction
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