''We Thought he Got Lost in the Woods'' by Zyto Rex | DOC’S CAMPFIRE TALES [EXCLUSIVE STORY]

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if you go<font color="#E5E5E5"> down to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> woods today</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> yeah</font> sure for<font color="#CCCCCC"> a big surprise</font> especially I feel the protagonist<font color="#E5E5E5"> in</font> tonight's story<font color="#CCCCCC"> wow so nice</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> join<font color="#CCCCCC"> me around the campfire again you</font> know how much I enjoy<font color="#E5E5E5"> when you come home</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">cheers me up no end to have company</font> around<font color="#E5E5E5"> the fire well tonight's story is</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">horrific tragic sad and scary now</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> coming</font> a little<font color="#E5E5E5"> closer because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I got a story to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">tell</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> you they go something like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font> tonight's story doesn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> take place on</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> lands but the area surrounding it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">see he wasn't</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the land that was</font> evil<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was the whole damn area</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I feel</font> disgusted with myself for<font color="#E5E5E5"> writing this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and I've been</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> writing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on it for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three days trying to figure out the best</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">way to convey the horror and get this</font> off my<font color="#CCCCCC"> chest</font> it was spring hand<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the woods</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> spring</font> is very<font color="#E5E5E5"> colorful and noisy everything is</font> blooming<font color="#E5E5E5"> killing you with allergies and</font> all the animals are shouting<font color="#E5E5E5"> out that</font> they want to<font color="#E5E5E5"> get laid</font> we had a few spring showers in the temperature was<font color="#E5E5E5"> rather mild</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> topping at</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">around 78 for the whole season</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Thomas</font> was a<font color="#E5E5E5"> 17 year old</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> boy who like most</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> kids</font> in my area<font color="#CCCCCC"> liked</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to fish out</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of a big</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Creek aptly named big creek</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">center of the conglomeration of small</font> towns<font color="#E5E5E5"> big creek ran through the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> woods</font> for<font color="#CCCCCC"> about 30</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> or</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so miles</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and was almost</font> white enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be called a river if</font> you're familiar with<font color="#E5E5E5"> the spring</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> river</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> was<font color="#CCCCCC"> about half as wide</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that at its</font> widest<font color="#E5E5E5"> point</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I always imagined that if</font> they hadn't<font color="#CCCCCC"> called it big creek</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> they</font> would have<font color="#CCCCCC"> called it a little</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> river</font> anyway<font color="#E5E5E5"> Thomas</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was the best fisherman of</font> his soul<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> older than my brother of</font> whom I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> younger but</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we all</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> still hung</font> out and despite<font color="#CCCCCC"> our age differences</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Thomas or Tommy loved the outdoors well</font> you know the<font color="#E5E5E5"> expression</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you can take the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">manor of the woods but you can't take</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the woods out of the man well that was</font> Tommy in a nutshell<font color="#CCCCCC"> as with</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> most kids in this</font> area<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy had dropped out of school</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about a year prior</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to help around the</font> farm<font color="#E5E5E5"> yeah this town was really backwards</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but that didn't hinder our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> friendship</font> in fact<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was one of our best</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">friends</font> we'd met Tommy about<font color="#E5E5E5"> a year after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> moved to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the land</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and initially I</font> thought he was an asshole<font color="#E5E5E5"> our first</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">meeting was well it ended up in a bad</font> way<font color="#CCCCCC"> for me and some unfortunate bastard</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I've</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> always been</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> able to see things</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">glimpses of bad things to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> count I get</font> this<font color="#E5E5E5"> from my mother but both that and</font> our first<font color="#E5E5E5"> meeting with Tommy are two</font> completely separate stories<font color="#E5E5E5"> the point is</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Thomas was one of our first friends he</font> and my<font color="#E5E5E5"> brother went to school</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> together</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">for a few years until Tom decided to</font> drop out I know calculus<font color="#CCCCCC"> and chemistry and stuff</font> I'm educated without<font color="#CCCCCC"> a diploma</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he'd said</font> one day<font color="#CCCCCC"> has</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we met at our fishing spots</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">my brother and I looked at him</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">flabbergasted</font> so Tommy dropped out<font color="#CCCCCC"> and spent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his days</font> working<font color="#E5E5E5"> in his uncle's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> farm</font> fishing with<font color="#CCCCCC"> us camping</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and mudding over</font> the dirt ropes on which we live<font color="#E5E5E5"> tommy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was always full</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of energy and was a very</font> excitable<font color="#CCCCCC"> person he had a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> passion for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">wildlife and woodlands and conservation</font> which was<font color="#CCCCCC"> something that threw me for a</font> loop<font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he dropped out he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> told us that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his uncle was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> trying to repair the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">damages he'd done and that he needed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">help</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> farm if they wanted to</font> enjoy the<font color="#CCCCCC"> simple things</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in life such as</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">eating and having clean water his uncle</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">was not a nice man in fact it was a</font> miracle that<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy I was even able to</font> live with him<font color="#E5E5E5"> as he had been convicted</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of doing something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> very</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nasty with two</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">fourteen-year-old girls back in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> 83 the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">worst part about it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> as if it needed to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">be worse</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was the fact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that they were his</font> nieces<font color="#E5E5E5"> he had been sent away until 95</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">whereupon he was released on good</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">behavior after that he just kind</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> melted<font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the woods</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> living</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> off an</font> inheritance and raising a farm<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy</font> hated his uncle<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his uncle hated</font> Tommy many<font color="#CCCCCC"> were the nights where Thomas would</font> just can't but his<font color="#E5E5E5"> favorite sites about</font> a mile down from our fishing spots <font color="#CCCCCC">Tommy often told and showed us the signs</font> of his<font color="#E5E5E5"> abuse such as cigarette burns in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> middle of his match missing teeth or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">teeth that were broken</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in half and the</font> worst one<font color="#CCCCCC"> toe</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> nails that have been</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">separated from the flesh</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> virus spike of</font> some<font color="#CCCCCC"> salt I didn't dare think about</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> how</font> his uncle<font color="#CCCCCC"> had managed that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a month or so</font> after Tommy turned<font color="#E5E5E5"> 18 something in him</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">changed we noticed something was off one</font> day<font color="#E5E5E5"> when Tommy showed up at our fishing</font> spot with bags<font color="#E5E5E5"> under his eyes he wasn't</font> as usual peppy self instead it<font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font> he hadn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> slept in a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> month</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we knew that</font> wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> the case because we'd all hung</font> out<font color="#E5E5E5"> at the same spot about two days</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">beforehand</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and he'd been fine my brother</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> I stood barefoot on a large slippery</font> rock that jutted out over the bank of <font color="#CCCCCC">the creek this part of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> creek was</font> good<font color="#E5E5E5"> for fishing flathead catfish as it</font> was both deep<font color="#CCCCCC"> and a bit cloudy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> due to</font> the looseness of<font color="#CCCCCC"> the shoreline about an</font> hour into<font color="#E5E5E5"> our fishing we had someone</font> approaching through the woods<font color="#CCCCCC"> and turn</font> to see Tommy walking toward us a wooden fishing<font color="#E5E5E5"> rod in one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hand and a tackle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> box</font> in the novel his hair<font color="#E5E5E5"> was a ragged mess</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">as usual</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but his face was gray in his</font> eyes<font color="#CCCCCC"> baggy which wasn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> at all usual hey</font> Tommy<font color="#CCCCCC"> you look like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> shit</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> man what's up</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">my brother asked a joking edge to his</font> voice<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> just grunted at this just</font> had a rough night<font color="#E5E5E5"> he replied</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he stood on</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the bank next to our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rock his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> flip-flops</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">digging into the silt he didn't really</font> talk the entire time<font color="#CCCCCC"> which was odd</font> because he usually chatted us up to the point where we were<font color="#E5E5E5"> afraid he'd drive</font> away or the fish when we<font color="#CCCCCC"> pride deeper to try and find the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">source of our friend strange behavior</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he</font> just gave us the<font color="#E5E5E5"> same answer as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">three hours into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fishing Tomi looked at</font> his watch<font color="#CCCCCC"> something he never</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when</font> the fish were biting<font color="#E5E5E5"> and packed up his</font> things he hadn't caught<font color="#CCCCCC"> anything and by</font> now<font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> should have snatched five or six</font> fish out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> water</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I have to go</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I'll</font> see you two<font color="#CCCCCC"> later</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and with that tommy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was gone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we didn't</font> see Tommy<font color="#CCCCCC"> again</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for a long time tommy</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> reported missing by his uncle no one</font> knew why<font color="#CCCCCC"> he didn't live with his parents</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">but it was assumed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he didn't want to</font> live in<font color="#CCCCCC"> a divorced</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> family it was common</font> for<font color="#E5E5E5"> kids around this area to go out with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">friends for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> camping or hunting</font> expeditions<font color="#E5E5E5"> for days at a time but Tommy</font> had never been gone for more<font color="#CCCCCC"> than a week</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and his mother was growing concerned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> uncle had told<font color="#E5E5E5"> police that he'd simply</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">run off one</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> night and that he was</font> growing<font color="#E5E5E5"> concerned for the boy</font> the police<font color="#E5E5E5"> which</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was stay please as</font> there<font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> no station for this small town</font> of ours<font color="#CCCCCC"> searched</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for Tommy for three or</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> days organizing search parties of</font> locals<font color="#E5E5E5"> and out-of-towners who knew Tommy</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and wanted to help they looked in all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> common haunts his mom's place his</font> dad's place<font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fishing spots his</font> favorite camping sites there was no trace of<font color="#CCCCCC"> him anyway one</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> night our</font> brother<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I were outside</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> roasting</font> marshmallows<font color="#E5E5E5"> over the cause</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of a fire</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> had burned out a</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> little bit before</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">tommy was on our minds but we figured</font> he'd<font color="#E5E5E5"> finally just moved</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> away with</font> another<font color="#CCCCCC"> relative as there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was a rumor</font> that his uncle<font color="#E5E5E5"> wasn't the most gentle of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">souls so in our minds tommy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was okay at</font> this point he'd<font color="#E5E5E5"> been gone for about two</font> months<font color="#CCCCCC"> we didn't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> miss him however</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> fishing just wasn't the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> same without</font> it as we<font color="#E5E5E5"> said</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> in our log stools</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> roasting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the confectionaries over the glowing</font> coals<font color="#E5E5E5"> and gazing up at the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stars</font> we<font color="#CCCCCC"> heard scuffling from our sides</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> lived in a massive<font color="#E5E5E5"> Hill that was about</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">three miles wide</font> we only encompassed about<font color="#E5E5E5"> two acres</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it and about 700</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> feet at its highest</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">point to our left was a neighbor that's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">where rights was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> bear woods for about</font> half a mile this<font color="#E5E5E5"> stretch of woods was</font> where the scuffling came from and despite leaning<font color="#CCCCCC"> over hot coals a chill</font> ran through my chest and<font color="#E5E5E5"> my head became</font> swamped with<font color="#E5E5E5"> dread have you ever woken</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">up and knew without a doubt</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> you are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">probably going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to die</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that day</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">well that feeling was me in that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> moment</font> but<font color="#E5E5E5"> I didn't fear any specific thing it</font> was just<font color="#CCCCCC"> their</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> step drag step drag</font> we heard whoever it was shuffle off into the forest<font color="#E5E5E5"> leaves and sticks snapping</font> and crunching underfoot they disappeared into the<font color="#E5E5E5"> woods and we went back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> roasting<font color="#CCCCCC"> out marshmallows then about</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">five minutes</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> later we heard something</font> grind<font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the sound of a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sarcophagus</font> lid<font color="#E5E5E5"> opening in a Hollywood movie it</font> shrieked through the night for<font color="#CCCCCC"> a brief</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">instant</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like an injured animal and</font> silence formed in its<font color="#E5E5E5"> wake we didn't</font> hear anything after<font color="#CCCCCC"> that but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I still</font> went<font color="#CCCCCC"> to bed with an uneasy feeling</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about a month nothing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> became of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it and I</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just kind of forgot about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it after that</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> following year felt a bit empty</font> without<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy we still went fishing out</font> at the creek<font color="#E5E5E5"> and sometimes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> when</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> camping</font> but it<font color="#E5E5E5"> just felt weird</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> mind you we still</font> thoroughly enjoyed it<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy's mother</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kind of just faded into the background</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and his name</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was whispered only in</font> reflective conversations of people with nothing<font color="#E5E5E5"> better to do</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> than talk</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> past<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was a lazy autumn afternoon</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a year</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and a half later we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> were on</font> Thanksgiving break<font color="#CCCCCC"> and to our surprise</font> and joy<font color="#E5E5E5"> the school had allotted us</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> two</font> weeks<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> vacation but if we knew what we</font> would<font color="#CCCCCC"> find on that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> break</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh we would</font> have gladly gone to school instead<font color="#CCCCCC"> I was</font> laying on the<font color="#E5E5E5"> floor</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">playing with my Legos and listening to</font> old rock on my radio<font color="#CCCCCC"> which had a rigged</font> antenna made from aluminum foil and a wire hanger my brother was splicing together<font color="#CCCCCC"> some of his duplicate</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Kid Rock</font> and limp Biskit cassettes to<font color="#E5E5E5"> make the</font> best fucking mixtape<font color="#E5E5E5"> ever our parents</font> were in the den<font color="#E5E5E5"> reading and talking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">about boring</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> adult</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> stuff</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bored I declared as I let my Bionicle</font> fall to his death<font color="#E5E5E5"> in a fiery lava pit</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">betrayed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> by his brother</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> meets ooh man</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">want to go hiking or something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I hadn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">been out hiking since school started so</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I said yes without hesitation we told</font> our parents<font color="#E5E5E5"> our plans and they said to</font> be home before<font color="#E5E5E5"> midnight</font> they were pretty<font color="#CCCCCC"> lacks despite all the</font> bullshit on the land<font color="#E5E5E5"> the woods around us</font> were vast once you got past the neighbors and<font color="#E5E5E5"> stuff there were some</font> pretty<font color="#E5E5E5"> cool sights too for example</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> there</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> a waterfall about a mile from</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font> trailer<font color="#E5E5E5"> that fell over the entrance to a</font> shallow cave it was<font color="#E5E5E5"> rumored that a black</font> bear lived there<font color="#E5E5E5"> but after thorough</font> investigation by<font color="#E5E5E5"> my dad and his friends</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it was confirmed that the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> only thing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">inhabit in the cave was a bunch of</font> raccoons we gathered a few<font color="#CCCCCC"> supplies such</font> as a handful<font color="#E5E5E5"> of slim</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> jims</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> each Pepsi</font> flashlights<font color="#CCCCCC"> and my dad let my brother</font> take his<font color="#CCCCCC"> pellet gun</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in case anything</font> tried to come out<font color="#CCCCCC"> of us we adorned our</font> hiking<font color="#E5E5E5"> boots</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and flannel shirts and set out the</font> evening<font color="#E5E5E5"> was fading fast into Twilight's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">what golden rays of Sun were left</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> here's</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the sparse canopy of gold and red and</font> purple leaves as a calm breeze smelling of decaying wood<font color="#E5E5E5"> whispered through</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> trees birds chirped away in the sound<font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">leaves and twigs crunching</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> under our</font> feet<font color="#E5E5E5"> was music for my soul we were about</font> a quarter mile into the<font color="#E5E5E5"> half mile</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">stretch of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> woods next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to our house</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">my brother asked the question he want to</font> go to Tommy's<font color="#E5E5E5"> I hadn't thought about</font> Tommy in nearly a<font color="#E5E5E5"> month and the sudden</font> thought of going<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his old house just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">kind of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> saying that coal breeze through</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> very being</font> why<font color="#CCCCCC"> it would be</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> cool</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> besides we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> might</font> find something like what<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't know</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just something reluctantly</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I agreed we</font> continued on through the stretch of woods<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy's house is about two miles</font> from<font color="#CCCCCC"> arrow six</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if you took the road</font> instead of<font color="#E5E5E5"> cutting through the woods we</font> crossed<font color="#E5E5E5"> over streams and a ravine</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through thick clusters of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> black jack</font> trees and down inclines that dropped<font color="#E5E5E5"> off</font> without<font color="#E5E5E5"> warning the forest was</font> beautifully haunting in the Twilight the Sun had fallen beneath<font color="#E5E5E5"> the horizon</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it was still light enough</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> have to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">use our flashlights after about an hour</font> we<font color="#E5E5E5"> reached Tommy's place Tommy had lived</font> in a single-story house with an attached garage and a large<font color="#E5E5E5"> barn behind it the</font> house was white<font color="#E5E5E5"> and stood out against</font> the dark fields behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> it which seemed</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> go on forever</font> it wasn't nearly<font color="#E5E5E5"> as big as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a standard</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">farmhouse but it was more than most</font> people<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the area had as we were mostly</font> confined to trailers <font color="#CCCCCC">I felt the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> same sense of dread I had on</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that night a year and a half ago but</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">there was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> something different about it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">felt like we</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> were being watched</font> if you don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> look it can't get you I</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">taught myself as I felt the darkness</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of</font> the woods creep up on me from<font color="#E5E5E5"> behind we</font> crossed the dirt<font color="#E5E5E5"> road separating the</font> woods from<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy's yards and soon we</font> were standing in<font color="#CCCCCC"> front</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the house no</font> one could afford alarm systems<font color="#E5E5E5"> and we</font> were so far removed<font color="#E5E5E5"> from society</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> there would be a waste of<font color="#E5E5E5"> money anyway</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">so getting</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the house was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not a</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">problem I was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an avid</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> lock pick</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> within a<font color="#E5E5E5"> minute the front door swung</font> open<font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> us the first</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> thing I noticed</font> was the<font color="#E5E5E5"> stench good lord</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the stench was</font> terrible<font color="#CCCCCC"> I pulled my shirt over my nose</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> stepped in clicking on my flashlight</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">in cast an eerie yellow orb to the white</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">interior walls of the house the darkness</font> masking everything<font color="#CCCCCC"> out that wasn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">illuminated that place was dirty</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> floor was littered with fallen pictures and boxes of<font color="#E5E5E5"> half packed as if someone</font> had had to<font color="#E5E5E5"> leave before they could carry</font> the boxes<font color="#E5E5E5"> or spiders inhabited the</font> corners of the house in nearly every room and beetles crawled over<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">furniture</font> other than the litter<font color="#E5E5E5"> the house seemed</font> to be in<font color="#CCCCCC"> order three sofas sat in the</font> den<font color="#E5E5E5"> surrounding a giant box TV the den</font> smelled musty<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the ticks of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> beetles</font> flying<font color="#E5E5E5"> cause my</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> skin to inch there was</font> nothing unusual<font color="#CCCCCC"> my brother stayed by me</font> his pellet gun at the ready it was<font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> pistol<font color="#E5E5E5"> model</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so in the other hand</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he too</font> held his lines we moved on to<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> bedrooms<font color="#E5E5E5"> what we presumed to be his</font> bedroom was lined with<font color="#E5E5E5"> corn and saliva</font> and Metallica posters along with a full collection of<font color="#E5E5E5"> books such as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> The Odyssey</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in Iliad</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and currently released Harry</font> Potter books and an ample collection of mystery<font color="#CCCCCC"> in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">old westerns it was a bit surprising to</font> find that Tommy<font color="#CCCCCC"> had enjoyed reading</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">seemed almost as much as ours it was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">like we were discovering a whole new</font> side of Tommy<font color="#E5E5E5"> his bed was made and his</font> closet was<font color="#CCCCCC"> full of clothes I found it</font> odd<font color="#CCCCCC"> that Tommy would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> leave and leave all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his stuff</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> behind we moved on to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">bedroom</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but the door was either blocked</font> or jammed<font color="#E5E5E5"> this only made the dread in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> my</font> gut heightened why would a bedroom door <font color="#E5E5E5">be jammed not wanting to press the</font> matter we quietly<font color="#CCCCCC"> walk to the kitchen</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">the floorboards creaking beneath our</font> boots<font color="#E5E5E5"> whining</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and resistance</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that they</font> had not<font color="#E5E5E5"> been oppressed in nearly two</font> years as we<font color="#CCCCCC"> approach</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the threshold for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the kitchen the stench grew stronger rot</font> filled<font color="#E5E5E5"> my nostrils and my brother gagged</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bending over to catch his breath we</font> reluctantly<font color="#E5E5E5"> entered the kitchen</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">immediately discovered the source</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> smell the freezer atop the fridge was <font color="#E5E5E5">opened</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> slightly and from it ran a river</font> of black goo<font color="#E5E5E5"> it had</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> slush</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> down the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> front</font> of the fridge it's black a stark contrast<font color="#CCCCCC"> to the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> pale white in my</font> flashlights being<font color="#CCCCCC"> hey I dare you to open</font> it my brother said<font color="#E5E5E5"> holding his nose so</font> that<font color="#CCCCCC"> he sounded</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like stitch yes no you</font> open it<font color="#CCCCCC"> rock-paper-scissors</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we set our</font> lights on the kitchen table<font color="#E5E5E5"> facing us</font> and played<font color="#CCCCCC"> RPS for the honor of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> not</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">opening the freezer</font> he<font color="#E5E5E5"> won grabbing my lights</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I made my way</font> to the fridge unit<font color="#E5E5E5"> my flashlight</font> bouncing off<font color="#CCCCCC"> of it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and leaving long</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Arminius shadows on the cheap</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> plywood</font> wall behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font> drawing in a deep breath<font color="#CCCCCC"> through my</font> mouth I opened<font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> slack's of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> black</font> squashed<font color="#E5E5E5"> out and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> onto the dirty linoleum</font> floor<font color="#E5E5E5"> more of the black goo</font> hang out to greet<font color="#E5E5E5"> me he splashed onto my</font> shoes<font color="#E5E5E5"> and not even my shirt could stop</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this smell</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> god it was awful</font> we ran<font color="#CCCCCC"> out of there and I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> wiped my shoes</font> on a towel<font color="#E5E5E5"> I snatched from the table</font> after that we decided<font color="#CCCCCC"> to visit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the barn</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">as the garage had been observed to be</font> barren of anything<font color="#CCCCCC"> safe a few shells and</font> pickaxes<font color="#CCCCCC"> the barn however was another</font> story<font color="#E5E5E5"> the moon was out as a waxing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">crescent</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but it was bright</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> enough to</font> cast<font color="#E5E5E5"> a silver glow in the darkness</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">giving everything a pretty yet chilling</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">white or the stars were out as well and</font> with no lights on we could see what seemed like<font color="#CCCCCC"> the ends</font> of the universe<font color="#E5E5E5"> the barn opened easily</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">enough a simple sliding wooden</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> door</font> it smelled of decayed hay and moisture but<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was a far cry</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from the awfulness</font> of the kitchen we cast our lights on a red rusty tractor<font color="#E5E5E5"> and a bunch of</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">sinister-looking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> farm equipment the barn</font> didn't have a hayloft<font color="#CCCCCC"> so luckily</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">didn't have to climb</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> up or anything we</font> made our way<font color="#CCCCCC"> around</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the back</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> tractor<font color="#CCCCCC"> and found ourselves</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> looking at</font> an old worn-out<font color="#CCCCCC"> table</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was stained</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with what</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> look like mud as it was a real</font> ruddy<font color="#CCCCCC"> brown the mud had dried out</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">completely as it was really flaky</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to the</font> touch that's<font color="#E5E5E5"> when I noticed the sickle</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> hacksaw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and the 2x4 the former two</font> of the three were caked<font color="#E5E5E5"> in mud</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">they've been dropped there</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> in one of the</font> summer<font color="#E5E5E5"> storms that caused them to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> get</font> dirty the floor<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the barn was ground so it</font> was easy to put the two together<font color="#CCCCCC"> but</font> then we<font color="#E5E5E5"> found it</font> my brother<font color="#E5E5E5"> grabbed some of the hay to</font> throw at<font color="#E5E5E5"> me and succeeded</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> but something</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">hard hit me in the head hey asshole</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">don't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> throw rocks</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> at me I blurted out</font> into the otherwise silent<font color="#CCCCCC"> night I didn't</font> yeah<font color="#E5E5E5"> and what the hell is this I reached</font> down<font color="#CCCCCC"> into</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the clump of wet hay and</font> pulled out the<font color="#E5E5E5"> rock only it wasn't a</font> wrong at<font color="#E5E5E5"> first I thought it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> an old</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">piece of wood</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that had been whittled</font> down to a rough ellipse<font color="#E5E5E5"> then</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I saw the</font> hole in the middle<font color="#CCCCCC"> and dropped it as</font> quickly as I picked it up shredding and shrieking like had just<font color="#CCCCCC"> been attacked</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">dude what's up my brother in quiet</font> alarmed<font color="#E5E5E5"> smart spine</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> oh</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he threw</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> back the</font> hay and revealed a grotesque<font color="#CCCCCC"> ribcage</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it's just lying in the hay</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it was too</font> small<font color="#CCCCCC"> and too</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> flat to belong to a pig or</font> cow<font color="#E5E5E5"> this was definitely human the dread</font> reached an all-time<font color="#CCCCCC"> high and I was</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">certain</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that whatever I felt</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> watching us</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">would soon pounce</font> we have to go and we have<font color="#E5E5E5"> to go right</font> now<font color="#CCCCCC"> I demand it hold on</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> no right now</font> Andrew<font color="#E5E5E5"> suddenly a wailing sound</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> tore</font> through the night a<font color="#CCCCCC"> wail that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> belonged</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> someone when they</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> witness a loved one</font> get murdered<font color="#CCCCCC"> a wail that only the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Damned</font> were<font color="#CCCCCC"> capable</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of producing we ran we ran</font> through the<font color="#CCCCCC"> woods</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up the hills and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> rivers at a lightning pace</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">our adrenaline keeping us from falling</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and stumbling</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> had something almost galloping behind</font> us<font color="#E5E5E5"> kicking up leaves and mulch and</font> snorting as it breathed<font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't dare</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">look back because I knew a moment's</font> lapse would<font color="#E5E5E5"> have me fall victim to</font> whatever<font color="#E5E5E5"> it was we burst forth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> from the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">treeline and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> ran into</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the Train locking</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the door</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> behind us we told</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our parents</font> the story and they grew more serious than I'd ever<font color="#E5E5E5"> seen them</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> before they</font> didn't scold us for<font color="#E5E5E5"> breaking and</font> entering Tommy's house but<font color="#E5E5E5"> instead</font> called the police and<font color="#CCCCCC"> told them that in</font> our youthful state of exploration<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> concern for friend<font color="#E5E5E5"> we adventure to our friends house</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> snuck into the barn where we found</font> the bones<font color="#E5E5E5"> my brother and I never heard</font> any reprimand from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the police for</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trespassing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">four</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> months after the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> incident</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we found</font> out that the bones had belonged to Tommy's uncle<font color="#E5E5E5"> and the more were found in</font> the septic tank behind<font color="#E5E5E5"> the house the</font> limbs had shown teeth marks<font color="#E5E5E5"> consistent</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">with those of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the hacksaw we found on</font> the<font color="#CCCCCC"> top also</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the table wasn't muddy it</font> was his uncle's<font color="#CCCCCC"> dried</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> blood this made me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">reel in horror</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> realizing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that I had</font> touched someone's blood you'd think after I helped my dad bury the boy several years<font color="#E5E5E5"> past that I'd be over</font> gross and disturbing<font color="#CCCCCC"> stuffs but no that</font> was<font color="#E5E5E5"> not the case these things these</font> events<font color="#E5E5E5"> never really</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> calloused me the</font> newspaper reported<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the whole body</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of Tommy's uncle had been accounted for</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I said Tommy's left foot as it was found</font> in<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> septic tank well almost</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> all of</font> his uncle's body<font color="#CCCCCC"> the head was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> missing</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">because Tommy's foot was among the</font> remains the investigators closed the case locally<font color="#E5E5E5"> saying that he was probably dead</font> too his mother was<font color="#E5E5E5"> grief-stricken after</font> holding<font color="#E5E5E5"> out hope</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> little boy had</font> been<font color="#E5E5E5"> safe at some location unbeknownst</font> to her for so long<font color="#CCCCCC"> only to have</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">hope snuffed out like a dream upon</font> waking<font color="#E5E5E5"> she fell to despair</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and ended up</font> painting<font color="#E5E5E5"> the walls of her bathroom with</font> a 10-gauge while she was<font color="#CCCCCC"> shitting now Tommy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his mom</font> and his uncle were dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> his dad though</font> long divorce from his wife still loved his family<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he too</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fell to despair as</font> his two friends<font color="#E5E5E5"> told</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him they went</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">check on him one day to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> find him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sitting</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">at the kitchen table with a revolver in</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his mouth</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he smiled and waved at them</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> then blew</font> his brains out the two friends didn't talk much after<font color="#E5E5E5"> that and eventually they</font> moved<font color="#E5E5E5"> away separately needless</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to say</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">this saturation of death shook the</font> tri-county<font color="#E5E5E5"> area</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and it was the buzz for</font> a good four months<font color="#E5E5E5"> toward the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> end of</font> which<font color="#CCCCCC"> was the time my</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> brother and I</font> decided<font color="#E5E5E5"> to go hiking again we hiked the</font> same stretch<font color="#CCCCCC"> of woods</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> but didn't go</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">anywhere</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> near</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy's</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> plains it was</font> afternoon<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the early summer breeze</font> danced through<font color="#CCCCCC"> the lush green trees it</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">had been almost three years</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> since Tommy</font> went missing we hadn't fished in about a year<font color="#E5E5E5"> because it just got boring even</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">when we would</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> sneak beers from the</font> fridge<font color="#E5E5E5"> we decided to go hiking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> just to</font> do something<font color="#E5E5E5"> but agreed to stay far away</font> from Tommy's place<font color="#E5E5E5"> we grabbed our</font> flashlights and<font color="#E5E5E5"> a bunch of slim jims</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">which had become our favourite treat for</font> hiking<font color="#E5E5E5"> and he also grabbed dad's pellet</font> gun<font color="#E5E5E5"> just in case we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ran</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> into anything</font> smaller than<font color="#CCCCCC"> a stick and needed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to scare</font> it<font color="#E5E5E5"> off we've been hiking about 45</font> minutes when Andy spotted<font color="#CCCCCC"> something as</font> we were<font color="#E5E5E5"> circling back to our</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> train</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> dude</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">come check this out it's like a whole</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">world or</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I ran over</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> two weary</font> students or a large metal<font color="#E5E5E5"> well sticking</font> out of the earth<font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to it was a cover</font> like a manhole<font color="#CCCCCC"> cover or something</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it was</font> covered in rust and it's<font color="#E5E5E5"> sunken into the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">ground and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> smashed across his black</font> surface<font color="#CCCCCC"> and a frenzy in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> our presence</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Andrew took out his flashlight and shown</font> it down to the<font color="#E5E5E5"> bottom where he saw</font> something floating it wasn't too deep <font color="#E5E5E5">and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> we could have easily gotten it out</font> with a branch<font color="#E5E5E5"> that was long enough but</font> we were interrupted<font color="#E5E5E5"> by silent</font> the birds<font color="#E5E5E5"> are</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> stop</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> singing and the bugs</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">that stop making noise even the wind</font> fell silent<font color="#E5E5E5"> that's when we heard</font> something<font color="#E5E5E5"> being dragged across the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">grounds sticks and rocks and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Akon's were</font> pushed aside as it moved step step step step drag<font color="#E5E5E5"> the sound continued for about</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> minutes and we were</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> frozen in place my</font> heart racing<font color="#CCCCCC"> and II touched my arm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">pointed to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a small cluster</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of trees</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> what</font> I saw<font color="#E5E5E5"> made my blood run cold there in</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> trees was a naked man crawling on</font> all fours<font color="#E5E5E5"> his face was too far away</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> make out clearly<font color="#E5E5E5"> but it appeared</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> be</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">scarred</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he was pale chalky and look</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sickly as we could see his ribs beneath</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he's gone to skin the man moved toward</font> us and as he grew closer<font color="#E5E5E5"> I could</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> see</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his nose was missing and in its</font> place was<font color="#E5E5E5"> a fleshy hole filled with ants</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and blisters he was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> five feet</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from us</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">when my brother spoke</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Tommi the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Beast turned its head</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> like a</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">curious child his bloodshot eyes</font> piercing<font color="#CCCCCC"> my brother as the man breathed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">snot flew from his skull and dribbled</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">down his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> crack lips</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> its</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> spoke his cheeks</font> huffing<font color="#CCCCCC"> and its eyes darting back and</font> forth<font color="#E5E5E5"> between Andy and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I as it did so me</font> Tommy Tommy Tommy<font color="#CCCCCC"> it licked the snot</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">from his lips and backed away scratching</font> its rear as it did<font color="#CCCCCC"> so that's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when I</font> noticed<font color="#CCCCCC"> that the man's left leg was</font> missing<font color="#E5E5E5"> Oh God</font> this was Tommy Tommy suddenly let out a <font color="#CCCCCC">wail and lunged for my brother</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he missed</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and my brother grabbed my arm Ron just</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">ran before</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he could</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> even get his feet</font> off the ground<font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> grabbed my</font> brother by his<font color="#E5E5E5"> ankle and was dragging</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him away like</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a coyote</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> hauling in a kill</font> my brother screeching at the top of his lungs like a kill<font color="#E5E5E5"> that wasn't all the</font> way<font color="#CCCCCC"> dead I stood there frozen</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for what</font> seemed like<font color="#CCCCCC"> eternity before I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> realized</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">what had happened I noticed</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that in the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">frenzy and he had dropped the pellet gun</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">I quickly grabbed it and ran after</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> -</font> it wasn't<font color="#E5E5E5"> hard to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> follow them</font> Tommy's dragging leg made a distinct trench in the mulch<font color="#CCCCCC"> of the woods and my</font> brother screams were loud enough<font color="#CCCCCC"> to</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">follow anyone that heard them probably</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">thought we were just messing around</font> because during this whole<font color="#E5E5E5"> ordeal there</font> was no sign<font color="#CCCCCC"> of other people apart</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from</font> us three if you count<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as human I</font> followed them for what seemed like hours until the screams led me to a cave<font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">was set into a hill</font> it wasn't the waterfall<font color="#E5E5E5"> cave no but it</font> appeared to<font color="#E5E5E5"> be man-made an excavation of</font> sorts almost like a mineshaft<font color="#CCCCCC"> it was at this</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">point that I seriously considered</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">running</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> back home and getting my dad as</font> I was terribly<font color="#E5E5E5"> afraid of the dark</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> no</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Nicks that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I was terribly afraid what</font> what was<font color="#E5E5E5"> he in the dark</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I took out my</font> flashlight<font color="#E5E5E5"> clicked it on and began my</font> descent<font color="#CCCCCC"> ten feet in I look back at the</font> opening the Evening Sun flooding in with <font color="#E5E5E5">confidence only to be stopped by the</font> overwhelming<font color="#E5E5E5"> darkness of the earthly hit</font> my stomach churned<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I swallowed my</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">fear but when I turned back to face</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">darkness my fear rose back up through my</font> throat in an acidic<font color="#E5E5E5"> burp and tears</font> formed in my eyes<font color="#E5E5E5"> taking</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a deep breath I</font> stepped forward<font color="#E5E5E5"> into the cave the floor</font> of the grotto was dirt<font color="#E5E5E5"> and large rocks</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and it was littered with refuse like old</font> shoes soda cans and plastic<font color="#E5E5E5"> bags smelled</font> musty and wet<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I could hear the</font> cliche drip of water<font color="#E5E5E5"> on her hands</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> continued forward suddenly my brother's cry erupting from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the belly of the</font> earthly tomb<font color="#CCCCCC"> like a soul crying from</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Hell he is later</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when I was on a</font> military stint<font color="#E5E5E5"> I read a quote he went</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> along the lines of the last</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">person</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and man thinks</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> off when he's</font> dying<font color="#CCCCCC"> is his mother and if that wasn't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">true well</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> MA</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> huh well please help me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Mommy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and he cried out from the bowels</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">of the earth fear slivered beneath my</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">skin like parasitic worms and I just</font> froze listening<font color="#CCCCCC"> to my brother's wailing</font> after crying<font color="#E5E5E5"> a bit I ran blindly into</font> the cave following the drag<font color="#CCCCCC"> marks in the</font> dirt<font color="#E5E5E5"> with my flashlight after about two</font> minutes<font color="#E5E5E5"> the tunnel opened to a vast</font> chamber with a small think of<font color="#E5E5E5"> runoff water ends towards the</font> edge of<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lake on the near side</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a</font> small<font color="#E5E5E5"> island</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> maybe ten</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> feet long rose up</font> above the snag<font color="#E5E5E5"> mortar and on it was Andy</font> unconscious and<font color="#E5E5E5"> sprawled out like a rag</font> doll<font color="#E5E5E5"> my light shone off the black water</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">as I scurried over</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my panic steps</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">echoing off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the walls of the cavern</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Andy</font> Andy wake up Andy he sputtered into <font color="#E5E5E5">consciousness his eyes coming back from</font> the cloudy cover of sleep he saw me<font color="#E5E5E5"> and</font> his face went pale as terror flooded through him and came out in his<font color="#E5E5E5"> voice</font> he's in here jack it's Tommy<font color="#E5E5E5"> it's really</font> fun Tommy he didn't die he's alive his face is gone<font color="#CCCCCC"> jack his face is God and he</font> spat the<font color="#E5E5E5"> words out quickly as if they</font> tasted vile in his mouth which<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm sure</font> they did no sooner had he set these words forth<font color="#E5E5E5"> than a large splash came</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> the lake I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> shone the light</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to see</font> Tommy<font color="#E5E5E5"> standing at an odd angle in the</font> water the dark surface of the lake reflecting his pale glistening me the black hole in his face made it look<font color="#E5E5E5"> like I was staring</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">through his head and into the cave</font> beyond his eyes once so green and<font color="#E5E5E5"> right</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">were now black and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bloodshot the</font> blisters that<font color="#E5E5E5"> had looked red and angry</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the sunlight now took on a smaller</font> more pinkish character which I assumed was<font color="#E5E5E5"> due to the cold of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the caves I</font> noticed something<font color="#E5E5E5"> else</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> too something</font> that I found more disturbing than<font color="#E5E5E5"> his</font> lack of nose his lack of<font color="#CCCCCC"> genital</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">we're Tommy jr. should have hung beneath</font> his<font color="#E5E5E5"> whitewash legs was not but a bump</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">riddled with scabs and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he turned</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> around</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> see Tommy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> when Tommy saw him he</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">leapt for him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> water and snot flying from</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">his nasal orifice as he sprinted towards</font> us in the shallow water<font color="#CCCCCC"> kicking up waves</font> and waking with his presence<font color="#CCCCCC"> I pulled</font> out the pellet gun and fired round after round but they didn't seem<font color="#CCCCCC"> to affect him</font> even as blood<font color="#E5E5E5"> oozed from his milky flesh</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">if anything it just made him angrier we</font> ran from the island<font color="#E5E5E5"> but Tommy bounded in</font> front of us and knocked me down as I hit the<font color="#CCCCCC"> ground I remember thinking</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that this</font> was where I was<font color="#E5E5E5"> going to die</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> this</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was</font> where it would all end Tommy stood over me<font color="#CCCCCC"> on all fours his</font> face inches from<font color="#CCCCCC"> my snot</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from his nose</font> dribbled down<font color="#CCCCCC"> is my mouth</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> vile salty</font> brine<font color="#CCCCCC"> I cried out</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> where that made him</font> wail with me sending<font color="#E5E5E5"> more of his phlegm</font> and survivor into my gaping<font color="#E5E5E5"> maw the urge</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">to vomit was overpowering but I managed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to swallow it back</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> yeah ah he's managed</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> make contact</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it seemed for a</font> moment<font color="#E5E5E5"> that I was looking at Tommy</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> swear I saw<font color="#E5E5E5"> the black peel back and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">revealed traces of his emerald eyes saw</font> the soft smile<font color="#CCCCCC"> returned to his lips the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">glow of joy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> image from his pale sweaty</font> cheeks<font color="#E5E5E5"> and just like that it was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> gone</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Tommy way out one more</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> time and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I saw</font> his top lip had a massive gouge in it that went into<font color="#E5E5E5"> his upper palate and</font> stopped<font color="#E5E5E5"> just between his eyes where the</font> top<font color="#E5E5E5"> of his nose would have been suddenly</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Tommy was</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> bashed from over me</font> and<font color="#CCCCCC"> he held a massive Rock and kept</font> slamming it in as<font color="#E5E5E5"> hard as</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he could I</font> grabbed a smaller<font color="#CCCCCC"> Rock and joined once I</font> realized<font color="#E5E5E5"> what he was doing the whales</font> from<font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy were different from his</font> predatory cries as we smashed his chest <font color="#E5E5E5">his limbs</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and his face with the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rocks</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">sending his house of agony bouncing off</font> the walls<font color="#E5E5E5"> only to be played alongside</font> the<font color="#E5E5E5"> squelches and snaps and pops of his</font> body in a grotesque<font color="#CCCCCC"> Orchestra of misery</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">and pain I felt nothing but</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> rage</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> knowing</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">that this beast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was not that what I saw</font> in the beasts eyes was a spirit of Tommy <font color="#E5E5E5">dying happily knowing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that he had seen</font> his friends one last<font color="#E5E5E5"> time before the</font> monster took over<font color="#E5E5E5"> the body was alive but</font> Tommy<font color="#E5E5E5"> had died</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> long ago we pounded</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> away</font> at<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Beast like Lumberjacks to a tree</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">he thrashed and kicked every movement</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">cracking his limbs even more and sending</font> moist crunches to join the macabre symphony<font color="#CCCCCC"> of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> whales after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> about 30</font> seconds<font color="#E5E5E5"> of Smashing him and he picked</font> the be stopped by<font color="#E5E5E5"> its thinning black</font> hair and dragged it howling<font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font> screaming to the water's edge<font color="#CCCCCC"> you you</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">are not Tommy Tommy is</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> dead</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and with</font> that he shoved the<font color="#E5E5E5"> beasts face into the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">water the creature tried to gasp for air</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">but he just</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> resorted in pathetic snorts</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">and sobs like a pig who knows he's going</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to the slaughter the broken body of the</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">Beast thrashed a little bit more and in</font> the glow<font color="#CCCCCC"> of my flashlight I saw it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> come</font> to a stop a final twitch<font color="#CCCCCC"> and then the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Beast had</font> stopped<font color="#E5E5E5"> forever the meat</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of the body</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">just relaxed and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> melted to the ground</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">losing all tension we sat panting on the</font> islands we were both covered in grime and muck<font color="#CCCCCC"> when I pulled</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> out a slim jim</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as</font> I looked<font color="#E5E5E5"> at it my heart sank because</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> realized<font color="#E5E5E5"> that we could have probably</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">just lured him off with</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">jaci</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tears</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> welled in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> my eyes</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> as I handed</font> it to my brother and pulled another one out for myself<font color="#E5E5E5"> he didn't ask why we were</font> eating<font color="#E5E5E5"> and I didn't either</font> it just felt like<font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> right thing to do</font> after<font color="#CCCCCC"> we regained our mentality or what</font> we could<font color="#E5E5E5"> have</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it anyway</font> we searched<font color="#E5E5E5"> the cave the lake was</font> roughly<font color="#E5E5E5"> a</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> hundred feet across</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> with the</font> chamber<font color="#E5E5E5"> being about a hundred and fifty</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">in one corner</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> found a stack of animal</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">bones</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> small things</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> like squirrels and</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">coyotes and armadillos and</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> fish</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> we found</font> a pile separate from the main<font color="#E5E5E5"> one they</font> consisted only<font color="#CCCCCC"> a flathead catfish</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> skulls</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">a little bit of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Tommy had survived for</font> longer<font color="#E5E5E5"> than</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'd thought</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">continuing our search we found a damp</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spiral notebook that was filled with</font> writing after flipping<font color="#E5E5E5"> through</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> it</font> briefly<font color="#CCCCCC"> and confirming that</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it belonged</font> to Tommy<font color="#CCCCCC"> I sat down and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> read it</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">oh it recounted a year of abuse by his</font> uncle<font color="#CCCCCC"> at first it</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was normal abuse</font> things hitting<font color="#E5E5E5"> namecoin then it moved to</font> cigarette burns and<font color="#CCCCCC"> cuts the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> escalation</font> was I have<font color="#E5E5E5"> no words the first of the</font> final entries was dated roughly<font color="#E5E5E5"> two days</font> after the<font color="#E5E5E5"> last time we'd seen Tommy for</font> everything<font color="#E5E5E5"> past this point in the</font> journal Tommy had disappeared from our <font color="#E5E5E5">lives it is below as I read it for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> still<font color="#CCCCCC"> have the notebook</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to refer back to</font> my uncle my<font color="#CCCCCC"> uncle</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> did</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the unspeakable</font> things to<font color="#E5E5E5"> me yesterday I'm gonna kill</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">him I'm gonna kill</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> him</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> what he did</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me I'm going to kill him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> immediately<font color="#E5E5E5"> felt sick</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> to my stomach as I</font> read the entry and I instantly felt like I shouldn't continue reading<font color="#E5E5E5"> but I had</font> to<font color="#E5E5E5"> know know what I still don't have an</font> answer<font color="#CCCCCC"> to that an entry</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from two days</font> later read as follows<font color="#CCCCCC"> I can still feel</font> him<font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't know who to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> tell you know</font> just kill me if I do I've got<font color="#CCCCCC"> to do</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font> to him at<font color="#E5E5E5"> first I couldn't still feel</font> him<font color="#E5E5E5"> I haven't left my room in two days</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">haven't</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> eaten haven't slept</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't look</font> at myself<font color="#CCCCCC"> in the mirror I've been</font> pissing in bottles but every time I do <font color="#CCCCCC">it brings me nothing but pain</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> why did he</font> do<font color="#E5E5E5"> this to me why did he do this to me</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">God I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> swear I swear to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Christ I'm</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> gonna</font> kill<font color="#E5E5E5"> him</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and I'm gonna cut that pot off</font> me as well<font color="#CCCCCC"> I have a box cutter next to</font> me and a clothes<font color="#E5E5E5"> iron to seal the wound</font> I'm<font color="#E5E5E5"> gonna make</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> sure that asshole</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can't</font> touch me<font color="#CCCCCC"> again for</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the rest of</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the time</font> he's alive<font color="#E5E5E5"> which won't be long I'm gonna</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">chop him up and leave a hand or</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">something of mine with his body so they</font> won't come looking<font color="#CCCCCC"> for me</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> if they</font> discover him<font color="#E5E5E5"> yeah but first God forgive</font> me but<font color="#CCCCCC"> I know you probably</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> can't if what</font> I'm about<font color="#CCCCCC"> to do kills me and this</font> journal is found please whoever<font color="#E5E5E5"> you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> are</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">please take</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> care</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> of that bastard please</font> my<font color="#E5E5E5"> crotch tightened and I felt mock pain</font> as I read the passage<font color="#E5E5E5"> kind of like when</font> you<font color="#CCCCCC"> see someone</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> smash their finger with</font> a<font color="#CCCCCC"> hammer and your finger tenses</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> up</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">I look back over at Tommy's corpse while</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">Andy sat</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> behind me with</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> his back to</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> me</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">budging away on slim jims</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> unaware of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the</font> horror I was reading the<font color="#E5E5E5"> next entry was</font> nearly<font color="#E5E5E5"> a month after the first</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I can't</font> believe I'm alive<font color="#E5E5E5"> why didn't he just</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">kill me</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I was so weak and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> writing this</font> but<font color="#CCCCCC"> gosh how come one man be so evil he</font> busted into<font color="#E5E5E5"> my room right after</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'd</font> finished the<font color="#E5E5E5"> entry and I hid it between</font> my mattresses I had the box cutter<font color="#E5E5E5"> in my hands</font> and I<font color="#E5E5E5"> was ready to make the cut when</font> suddenly he was standing over<font color="#E5E5E5"> me he hit</font> me hard<font color="#E5E5E5"> in the head hard enough to throw</font> me back out<font color="#E5E5E5"> of the bed</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he did it</font> again<font color="#E5E5E5"> no he bit it off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he bit</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> he bit it</font> off<font color="#CCCCCC"> I can barely move around</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the house</font> and<font color="#E5E5E5"> I only do so when he isn't home the</font> phones are dead<font color="#E5E5E5"> the TV doesn't work in</font> the water<font color="#E5E5E5"> is turned off</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> geez I heard so</font> much<font color="#E5E5E5"> why does he hate me</font> I threw the<font color="#E5E5E5"> book down is the earth</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Andy</font> started her the sound<font color="#E5E5E5"> spooked by my</font> sudden<font color="#E5E5E5"> outburst hatred burned in me as</font> did fear and dread<font color="#CCCCCC"> and the utmost</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">trepidation</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I looked over at the body of</font> my old friend<font color="#E5E5E5"> shamed for how</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'd aided</font> in his<font color="#E5E5E5"> death shame for how I had given</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">such a poor</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> unfortunate soul even more</font> pain in<font color="#CCCCCC"> his</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> passing which he had no</font> doubt wanted to be peaceful<font color="#E5E5E5"> this was</font> however not<font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> case as I found out once</font> I mustered the<font color="#E5E5E5"> courage to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> pick</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> of the</font> book<font color="#E5E5E5"> again the next entry</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> describes the</font> killing I cut my foot off and<font color="#E5E5E5"> buried it</font> with his limbs in<font color="#E5E5E5"> the septic tank after</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">losing my manhood</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> to this evil piece of</font> shit<font color="#CCCCCC"> her foot was nothing too awful that</font> was a week ago I was too weak<font color="#E5E5E5"> to bury</font> his<font color="#E5E5E5"> torso so I just covered it with a</font> hay bale little bit of time<font color="#E5E5E5"> next</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> week when</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I've</font> regained<font color="#E5E5E5"> my strength I'm gonna drop his</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">head down a well near the Roberts</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> place</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">they'll probably never find it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> because</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it's old and it's deep too</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I slit his</font> throat while<font color="#CCCCCC"> he was in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> his bedroom</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">writing</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> on his laptop I'm still in the</font> house I don't<font color="#E5E5E5"> want the door left open</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> so</font> I'm putting a Schwindt in it so it won't <font color="#E5E5E5">open again yeah oh fuck you</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I flipped</font> the last page<font color="#E5E5E5"> which was dated two</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> months</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">after the one I just presented</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it's been</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">three months since</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> I did it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I'm sitting</font> at the mouth of my new home and<font color="#E5E5E5"> assumed</font> to be my grave I found a cave in the <font color="#CCCCCC">woods about four miles away</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> from my</font> house<font color="#E5E5E5"> after I buried</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Paul I took his 45</font> from under his bed<font color="#E5E5E5"> I'm gonna go into</font> this cave and blow my brains out after I <font color="#E5E5E5">finish this I felt numb as I closed the</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">book for the last</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> time</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that day</font> everything<font color="#CCCCCC"> seems so distant czarina</font> significant<font color="#E5E5E5"> at that point war poverty</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">people being slaughtered in</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> the</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> Middle</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">East's</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the cancer patients in my school</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">God</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it all seems so meaningless and</font> stupid<font color="#CCCCCC"> I didn't let Andrew read the book</font> as I knew<font color="#E5E5E5"> that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> Tommy</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was his best friend</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">he never set eyes on the notebook</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> after</font> that I made<font color="#CCCCCC"> sure of</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> it</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> figured</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> Tommy had misfired<font color="#E5E5E5"> the bullets in it and</font> it had blown his<font color="#E5E5E5"> face off instead of</font> blowing<font color="#E5E5E5"> his brains out the damage to his</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">brain from the round probably sent him</font> to a mental breakdown<font color="#CCCCCC"> coupled with all</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the pain that</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> he did ensured I think</font> that it was at this<font color="#E5E5E5"> point that Tommy</font> died and the<font color="#CCCCCC"> Beast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> took over we</font> eventually<font color="#E5E5E5"> made our way home</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> and never</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">spoke of word of it to</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> our</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> parents</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> don't know how we didn't go crazy<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> guess we just<font color="#E5E5E5"> became numb for</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> nearly</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">half a year</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> everything was</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> a gray blur</font> school happens life happened <font color="#CCCCCC">you know we stopped going</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> fishing</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font> still have a<font color="#CCCCCC"> notebook and I don't read</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">it very often</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> I don't even know why I</font> read<font color="#CCCCCC"> it in</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> the first place maybe it's to</font> discover to figure out why his<font color="#E5E5E5"> uncle had</font> hated<font color="#E5E5E5"> him so</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> much</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> why there was such</font> darkness<font color="#E5E5E5"> about him</font> I still have found no answers<font color="#CCCCCC"> I</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> don't</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">think I</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> ever will</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> and he has remained</font> blissfully unaware of the book so<font color="#CCCCCC"> he</font> remembers<font color="#E5E5E5"> killing the monster</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> that</font> <font color="#CCCCCC">killed Tommy in a slightly heroic</font> assault<font color="#CCCCCC"> I however remember the fact that</font> <font color="#E5E5E5">the</font><font color="#CCCCCC"> beast</font><font color="#E5E5E5"> was Tommy somewhere and we</font> killed two<font color="#E5E5E5"> living things that night</font> [Music] [Music] [Music] <font color="#E5E5E5">you</font> [Music] [Applause]
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Channel: Dr. Creepen
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Keywords: We Thought he Got Lost in the Woods, asmr campfire stories, best new horror stories 2017 2018, scariest horror stories 2017 2018, Zyto Rex, forest horror stories, dr creepen
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Length: 51min 0sec (3060 seconds)
Published: Mon Oct 23 2017
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