The Dark

The dark.

You may not fear the dark, thinking that there isn’t anything there. If that is you, enjoy your blissful ignorance and stop reading now. If you fear the dark and you spend many nights with the lights on, let this be a warning to you. I have seen the beings behind the curtain of darkness, and they are extremely jeopardous. If you are ever misfortunate enough to cross paths with them, never look into their eyes. The eyes are the windows into the soul. They will see your most amazing dreams, and your worst nightmares. They will use this to their advantage, and they will show no mercy no matter how good or pure of a person you are. 

Those beings are from beyond the veil of our existence. They have talked with our ancestors and learned our weaknesses, and our strengths. They know the secrets of unlocking the human brain and all of its deepest secrets, they know how to tear us apart from the inside. They can’t feel remorse, or sadness, nor happiness. They are numb. They will make the worst physical pain you’ve ever felt seem like nothing, and your best memory feel like it never happened. They will ruin even the deepest parts of your mind that you never even knew existed, everything you ever knew will be erased and in its place will be complete hell. 

Nothing you have ever experienced will compare to anything they will do to you. First they will take over your mind, making you loathe every second of your existence. Making you wish that you were dead, racking your brain with excruciatingly painful thoughts. Creating for you, your own personal hell. Right when  you think you have nothing left for them to take, they will start to torture you. They will start by ripping your skin off in patches. Then using their long, dirty nails along the bleeding, and exposed flesh. Digging them into the bloody and bare strings of muscle that have been uncovered. 

After you have no skin left to tear, they will rip each limb apart from the joints. Segment by segment. They will do this as slowly as possible so that the pain is unbearable. You will be unable to lose consciousness because they will continue to have a grip on your mind, making you feel everything amplified more than ever. They will pin you to a table with large skewers, like a frog that’s being dissected. A large mechanism drops from the ceiling and a laser shoots out and slices open your abdomen, leaving your internal organs exposed.

They will use their long claws to pick through them and puncture them, sending strange fluids all over you and the table. Over and over again they will do this. More pain flooding through your system each time. After a while your vocal chords will give out and your screams will stop, but the pain only gets worse. You are helpless in their grasps, unable to move or speak. Alone in your pain. Your mind will stop and the only thing you are is pain. 

They will then drop you back in your house. Where they found you and abducted you. Your body will be completely restored as if nothing happened. They know that nobody will believe you. Who will believe that you were stolen by the creatures in the dark, and dissected like a middle school science project? You will suffer in silence by yourself, not a friend in the world. You will be ostracized by everyone, put in a mental hospital and left to rot. And they will watch you and love every minute of it. 

That’s where your story will end. You will be alone, enduring the hell of your mind. Every time you see the dark, you see them. Laughing at your pain, while you’re left crying. Fear the dark, it is the worst thing that can get you. It’s also the most inescapable. Don’t get caught by the dark, you will never truly escape.

Original work by P.H.