An early bird is a dead bird
Time check: 4:56 am
I was asked to report at five in the morning sharp, no more and no less. Strictly 5:00:00, or else do not enter the office.
Of course, I was wiser than that. My boss needs to see how punctual I am.
The office was empty. Among all departments, I was the only one around, nobody on sight. I was expecting the productions team to be here but I guess I was wrong about the info.
My phone received a wifi signal, this is unusual. After that vibration that notified me, two telephones rang.
I shrugged it off and did not answer. Who would call this early anyway? It's still dark outside. Daylight saving time, as they call it. The guards in the hallway are just probably checking stuff out. I was hearing weird noise but then I thought, maybe it was just my stomach, actually I ate at home but maybe there's something wrong with my metabolism. I look at the time, 4:58am.
**screech**
It's the third time that I heard that screeching sound, first coming from the back, now far in front of me.
Since I'm doing an internship in film production, props and mannequins are everywhere but mostly they were placed at the productions department. It's just now that I noticed we have one here, staring right at me.
I was ignoring the frightening feeling I was having at the moment. "No, the stories aren't real.."
**screech**
I lift my head up, looking at the prop that seemed to be facing me. I stood up, "Hello?"...
I sat back down, with goosebumps all over me, I grabbed my backpack,"Okay!...I...I.... I'm leaving!" **screech**
The mannequin.
It's moving. It's walking, no, dragging. It's making a creepy sound I've heard before, yes, of course, the screeching sound was made by it. It's now half away from me. **screech**
I can't move a muscle.
**screech**
I'm going to be taken...
A flash of light pointed at my face suddenly, it's the guard, I almost thought the rumors about this office are real. I let out a sigh of relief.
I followed her and we went to the productions storage, the room was full of interns, "Wait, what?"
I didn't even expect I'd fit in there, she asked me to enter, looking at her decaying face I didn't notice she pushed me in and with a grin, she locked me up with the others.
I heard someone uttered from behind,
"We connected to your cellphone."
"We tried calling you, twice."
"We whispered from your back."
"The mannequin was our last resort."
The main door flew open, it's 5:00am at last. My boss was looking for me, and I saw him put on a grimace when he failed to see me.
We're here but nobody sees us. What is this trance? How can we escape from here? We have to wait for another intern to come and free us.
Don't be scared. Get us out of here.
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Note:
Hello, read.cash writers and readers. I noticed most content creators here interact and engage with their audience by including personal remarks before or after their articles. Trying this out too I guess.
This was actually an unfinished piece of mine way back my internship days in college. This platform inspired me to finish some of my creative work. Looking at posting non-fiction content too, probably in the coming days or weeks. I'm liking it here so far.
Do comment down below your own fictional compositions, would love to read and start a conversation. <3
Game over
A goodnight's sleep with an adventure. I just love it when I get to kill a variety of monsters in my dream. Just like in Left4Dead when you're on a rampage. Not to mention, the Resident Evil Series and you're at Ada Wong's sequence, intense.
They tell me to get a life, go outside, be normal, they almost put me on rehab actually. I'm not closing my doors with those possibilities so I said yes, in one condition - they let me play one more game for the very last time.
I was so into this new post-apocalyptic, Zombie game that I dreamt of it last night. It's like an RPG, surrealistic. Perfect. Let's get it on.
Level 1:
Easy peasy. This little zombie's crying for its mommy, just one bullet and...bam! Piece of cake.
Level 2:
Twin head zombie? No problem, come on guys, I've seen worse. I'll give you a taste of this katana.
What? When you split them they multiply? Let me ram you both with grenades up your bums, freaking twitches! Killing spree!!!
Level 3:
Oooh, what do we have here? You look like some noisy nagger Zombie in the Last of Us eh? Too bad, this is Daryl Dixon from TWD witch! Bam!
Boss level:
These fools didn't even make me drop a sweat. At last, final level...
Damn, you're a huge Walker I'll give you that, oh and is that an ammo? Woah dude, is this a glitch? I don't give a damn, I can still take you down.
With just one simple maneuver? You're out? Tsk, no fun.
That's it? That really is it? My last damn game is a piece of crap. Well, my bad, I guess I just really mastered all the zombie games out there. Guess, I'll just hit the sack now.
I was half asleep when I heard on the radio, "Teenage boy massacred his own family.."
And the morning after, I woke up in an asylum...
"Shoot, I wasn't dreaming."
- end -
Hi, read.cash writers and readers! I posted a composition of mine as my very first article. I'm wondering what else should be done as kick start. Can you help me fully immerse myself with this entity, now that we have stummbled upon each other amid the vastness of the internet realm? :)
Why do white rabbits have red eyes?
Sniffing roots, hiding behind barks.
Without a sound, he runs deep into the forest.
At last, seeing a doe lying on dry brown leaves…
The wolf circles around the doe, with his keen eyes, and pointy, shiny teeth, about to approach the ball of white fur with dark brown eyes…
*“Please don’t eat me."*
He stops, *“That’s a funny dying wish.”*
*“I’m tainted. Look at my ears, they’re down, my skin, saggy, and my fur, they’re falling off.”*
*“I’m…not picky,” said the wolf.*
*“Spare me, help me find my cure and I’ll tell you where I live. There you’ll find more rabbits, feast yourself or be unsatisfied with just one kill.”*
*“What cure?”*
*“This disease that I have was a curse cast by predators. I need you to ask them to take the curse back.”*
*“Which predators?”*
*“You. At least the ones who look like you.”*
The wolf nods, he felt guilty by her words, then gently carried the doe on his back.
They crossed rivers with running waters, the wolf constantly checks if the doe is fine as she lays comfortably on his back.
At the foot of the mountain, heavy rain poured.
The wolf puts a large leaf on the doe so she doesn’t get sulked with huge raindrops. The doe snuggles herself into the wolf’s back, giving the wolf a much-needed warmth from the cold, humid weather of the mountains.
In the middle of the journey, the wolf hears twigs breaking.
A pack of black wolves came out of nowhere.
The leader of the black wolves with beaming yellow eyes spoke, “*The lone wolf meets… a snow doe?”*
*“Back off,”* cried the gray wolf.
“*You damn lone wolf! How dare you keep a prey from us? We’ve been starving for weeks!”*
The rest of the wolves flashed their large mouths, with sharp teeth sparkling from saliva caused by the hunger they’ve been enduring.
*“This is my prey, I will consume it whenever I want.”*
The gray wolf looks at the doe, she’s looking back with panic in her eyes. He felt her fever rising, her body shaking from terror.
*“Stop humiliating our family you weak lone wolf! We have been killing those dirty hares for millenniums! Is that doe a friend? Show that coney your mercy and both of you will be our foes.”*
*“Let us pass,”* he let out a growl.
*“You shall pass o’ grey wolf from the north of the forest,”* the leader mockingly replied...
*…only, and only if, you devour that white bunny, NOW!”*
The gray wolf circles around the leader, growling. The leader and the other black wolves barked at him, growling noisily, all sturdy bodies positioned to attack…
The gray wolf pushed his back, sending the doe up in the mid-air.
He then catches the doe with his whole mouth, swallowing all of her, no fur, no skin was left of her to see.
The pack of wolves, upon the sight of the rabbit’s death disappeared deep into the forest.
The gray wolf hastily runs at the top of the mountains, it was a dark evening with only the stars and the moon to light the way, he throws up, with all force he pulled every nerve from the depths of his stomach and so he made the doe came out of his gut.
The doe, enveloped with blood and acid, is lifeless.
The wolf keeps waking her up, pushing his nose at her, licking all the excess saliva, acid, and blood from her, until she’s dry and as white as the very first time he saw her.
The dead doe was just lying beautifully with her elegant body as white as snow as the shiny rays of the moon hit their way.
As the wolf lays his head on top of hers, a tear from the gray wolf’s left eye ran down his face and fell upon the doe’s temple.
On the spur of moment, she came back to life.
*“Please, don’t eat me.”*
*“You’re alive!”*
The doe’s ears were upright, her skin as firm as a newborn, her fur grew back to its lush beauty.
*“Y..you‘re the cure?!,” said the doe. “Wait, stay still…don’t….”*
Before she even stopped him, the gray wolf happily let out its unique howl that only a lone wolf can do. It sounded like soft, gentle music, a specific melody that filled the silent mountains with harmonious echoes.
*“What? Why?” questioned the wolf.*
As if on cue, a herd of large, wild bucks came out of the burrows.
*“WAIT!” the doe cried.*
Not a single buck batted an eye to the doe…
*“DON’T!”*
About half a hundred bucks stroke a bite from the gray wolf’s paws and tail.
*“STOP!”*
His mighty back got dug with numerous rabbit cuts, tearing his limbs and torso apart.
*“NO, PLEASE!”*
Chomping on every strength that he has, leaving his furry body battered, skin and bones scattered.
An old skinny witch buck whispered to the doe, *“Your role has ended, well done…*
*The conies and the wolves are even now.”*
Then the herd dispersed into the dark of the forest.
*The gray wolf, barely breathing, stares blankly into the doe’s eyes, then perished…*
….*The doe bawled ‘til her tears ran dry and her eyes shed blood*
*before she eventually throws herself down the falls at the other side of the alp.*
-The end-
*Vocabulary words:*
*Doe - female rabbit*
*Buck - male rabbit*
*Burrow - rabbit hole*
*Cone - old word for adult rabbit*
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