I have written a story a long time ago and I honestly don't like them being on Facebook since Facebook likes to do whatever the hell it wants to. I will post them on here. I have no where else to put them. Grammatically they suck as do all of my writings. I need to go back to school.
Anywho, this is the first story. It is a rough draft for sure. Looking back there are some things that I hate, and some that I love.
A girl wakes up in a muddy puddle, unaware of who she is or how she got there. She gets up, wipes herself off, and starts walking down the road that she was beside. She notices that it’s a deeply wooded area and there are no signs of civilization, other than the road, anywhere.
She keeps walking and finally she sees a little cabin with a R.V. in front of it. The cabin is owned by a man and his two sons. They tell the girl that they will take her to the sheriff on their way out of town. It is the youngest son’s birthday and they are celebrating by going camping in the desert. They give the girl something to drink. Minutes after she is done, she passes out.
When she wakes up, she finds herself in the RV on the couch. She looks out the window and realizes that they drugged her and took her with them to the desert. The father notices that she is awake and tells her to eat some cake with his son at the table. When she refuses and begs for them to let her go, he pulls out a gun and tells her that it’s rude not to eat cake on a person’s birthday when requested to. So she gets up and goes to the table and starts to eat the homemade chocolate cake with messy yellow frosting that says “Happy Birthday”.
While she eats, the father tells the son how much he is going to love his birthday present and how much fun they are going to have while camping. Apparently it’s an old family tradition to camp in the desert when the son is old enough. The father calls it “the final step toward manhood”. When the girl gets done eating, the eldest son knocks her out and ties her up.
When she wakes up again, she is laying down in the dirt. She is outside, in the cold desert, and the RV and the family are nowhere to be seen. She tries to get her arms free, but before she can, the father and eldest son shows up with the youngest not far behind. The father doesn’t have the gun, which makes the girl breathe a sigh of relief. She then looks at the eldest and sees that he is holding an ax.
It is then and there that the father reveals what the boy’s birthday present is. It’s the girl and the final step towards manhood is killing her. The girl screams and swears at the men, but it doesn’t matter because they were in the desert and no one was there to hear her screams. As the son approaches, the girl tries to scramble free. As the son raises the ax, the girl can see a little bit of her reflection. The reflection of a poor, helpless, tied up girl with tears in her eyes. It is in that moment where she remembers who she is and what she has become.
She flashes back to when she was a teenager. She is at home and is about to go to the carnival. Just as she is about to go out the door, she looks in a mirror and sees that she is in a completely different person. At the carnival, she sees a man working one of the booths and its instant sparks. They spend the rest of the time that the carnival is in town, together. When it was time for the carnival to leave the man tells his mother that he was staying with the girl. The mother lashes out and later that night she kills the girl and curses her to an eternity of an unhappy, loveless life and nothing the girl could do to break the curse. If she tried to break the curse it would just get worse. So the girl went through time falling in love and dieing and coming back to life in another body, just to do it all over again.
She then flashes back to the present, where the boy is holding the ax that has her pitiful reflection in it. In that second, she decides to embrace her immortality. She was going to try and save what little humanity the world had left, and she was going to start with this family.
As the ax comes down, the girl kicks the ax back and it hit’s the boy in the face, breaking his nose. As the boy cradles his bloodied broken face, his father and brother only looks in shock as to what just happened. Before they can collect themselves, the girl grabs the ax, cuts the ropes that were around her wrists and runs into the desert canyon lands.
The girl runs until she finds a suitable hiding spot to collect her thoughts. She decides that she is better off getting the gun that the father had and figures that they left it in the camper. She then climbs up to where she can see if she can find where the camper is at. Luckily for her, they left the lights on and it was not far.
When she finally gets to the camper, she goes inside and starts searching. While looking for the gun, she opens a drawer that has photos of past victims. She closes the drawer in disgust and looks in the front seats. She finally finds the gun on the dashboard and sees that the family is back. She then barges out the door, and opens fire. The father gets shot in the chest and the youngest boy gets shot in the leg and neck. Before she realizes that the eldest isn’t there, she gets knocked out.
She wakes up again in the camper, on the couch. She asks the son where he was taking her. He then explains that weather she likes it or not, she is getting buried with all the others. When they finally get to the cabin, the son gets out and is gone for a while. The girl doesn’t try to get away because her legs and arms are chained up. Later on the son comes back with a ladder and a shovel. He then unchains her and says that they are going out for a romantic stroll.
They get out and head towards the woods. Several hours later, there is an opening in the woods. It was a cemetery. As the girl waits in horror, she realizes that no matter how hard she could fight back, the curse would always win and she might as well let whatever was going to happen, happen. So she sits in the dirt watching the son digs up a used grave. It starts to rain and the dirt turns to mud and the man stops digging. He hops out and smiles an evil smile. He tells the girl to hop in the coffin beside the dug out grave. She refuses and he picks her up and throws her in the coffin.
As he is nailing the coffin shut, the girl is pleading saying that she can’t die. The man tells her that in a few minutes she will be wishing that she would die a fast death like the ones she gave his father and brother. He drags the coffin to the hole and drops it down. He shovels the dirt in the grave until he can no longer hear the screams and pleas of the girl.
So the girl is left in the silence under several feet of dirt trying to figure out a way to get out. She knew that she had plenty of time because until she fell in love again, she had all of forever to stay alive.
No comments:
Post a Comment