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Escape Darkness

March 2, 2023
By tp678837, Springfield, Ohio
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Author's note:

Some ideas in this book came from either my thoughts or real life 


events that i witnessed and became curious about and put it into my 


book.

Do you ever have that gut feeling that something is always watching you. 


Well, me and one of my friends were walking back home from the park and we 


felt like something was watching us. We were a little itchy because it was so dark 


we couldn't see anything. It was like nothing was out there but us until I felt a cold 


breath exhale on my left ear but when I went to look over and my eyes met his at 


the same time. He was on my right and I felt chills shoot through my body with a 


bolt of energy. I felt as if my heart was running as fast as I was. Then we heard 


loud footsteps behind us getting closer but after each step there was a ringing 


noise kinda like the sound you hear when you have a headache. It was that noise 


but ten times louder. I thought it was the echo of us running, but it got louder and 


louder. I felt like it was getting closer and closer. We made it to my front door step 


as I shuffled around in my pocket to find the key to unlock the door. We slammed 


the door behind us, as if we were in a rush. I flipped the light switch to the porch 


on.Then I looked outside the window to see that nothing was there besides a 


couple pieces of trash being carried down the street by the wind

That's when this all started, hi my name is John, my friend that was with 


me that day no longer lives near the area because he said that he experienced 


more scary events when he got home,stuff turning on and off,doors 


opening,house heating up and turning really cold.But we still try to keep in touch 


even though we live nowhere near each other. But now I think I'm going through 


the same events. I woke up yesterday with my water faucet running so I got up 


quickly to turn it off and I was disgusted by the horrible mess that was made 


while I was asleep. The bathroom was flooded to my ankles, the faucet was 


really rusty and the paint on the walls didn't look so well either because they had 


grown mold from the excessive moisture running while I was asleep. Not a good 


experience because I had school that morning and had to somehow get ready 


and clean the water out of my bathroom all in 30 min,”Yeah” wasn't a good day to 


start with. Until I realized that these events were only getting worse by me 


ignoring them.

In the middle of the night, I jumped out of bed when I heard a loud bang I 


thought it could've been me knocking something over when I switched to lay on 


my side because my room is too small to do anything in. I looked around and 


nothing was out of place. Everything was normal and put where I left when I went 


to sleep. I walked as quietly as I could up the stairs as it creaked in silence 


making me want to hold my breath, dust was spreading everywhere. I walked all 


the way to check the balcony door, it was cracked open. I went outside to check if 


anyone was out there as soon as I stepped outside, the door behind me 


slammed shut.Then I started hearing loud metal items being thrown around. 


”Thank god the door is not locked”, I open it and take a look around and see that 


every pot and pan that i own were laying everywhere on the kitchen floor.


 

I drove by a traffic light and came up to a stop sign and I saw people 


walking on the sidewalk. As I watched them walk slowly as if time paused to take 


a breath. He bent over to pick something up that looked  like a quarter. He looked 


at it like he had never seen one before and like he was confused. He kept 


walking as he flipped and tossed it in the air as he walked along the sidewalk. 

 

I was making my way to the grocery store to pick up some pans because 


mine were broken. When I arrived I asked an employee where the kitchen items 


were. He didn't respond at first but he eventually did “awwissleesss 3.” he said in 


a slur. He looked a little deranged along with his voice. He sounded like he had 


something in his mouth. “Food maybe.” He walked with a tilt and his shoulders 


were sunk and his arms didn't swing, he walked slowly with a limp like something 


was holding on to him. I didn't understand what he said so I decided to go find 


the aisle by myself.

 


It was quiet, but when I got to aisle 3 the lights started flickering and I felt 


myself shaking, I felt a breeze on my neck and quickly turned around as I saw 


nothing I felt a soft touch to my hand and seen the man standing behind me,we 


were breathing heavily in sync, I stammered and ask him who he is and what he 


was doing he didn't answer he just kept breathing, I ran out of the store with a 


burst of energy as I got to my street I ran out of breath and stopped and felt like 


my heart was sinking everytime I took a breath. I felt dehydrated and dizzy but I 


kept going so I could get to my house. “Which I did”.

I took off my backpack and jacket and laid down in my bed with exhaust 


and looked at the ceiling that was moldy and listened to the rain sprinkle like hail 


on the roof as it made me slowly fall asleep.


Life was getting too scary so I told my mom all the stories of what 


happened to me and my friend back then leading to now she said that she 


believed me and she was already planning on moving because nothing in the


 house worked like it was supposed to. Even after she tried to get mechanics and 


plumbers to fix our casualties. I went back to school the next day and couldn't get 


in my locker, I had to have a janitor come and open it for me. He looked at me 


like I was a weirdo I looked at him the same way and took a peak to see why he 


was looking at me like he was and my hair stood on my skin and was as stiff as a 

carpet because my broken pots were shoved into the back of my locker and 


damaged the lock. I asked if he saw anyone put them in here and he said he 


wouldn't know because he's all over the place.

 

I had to pull out every pot and pan from my locker, it looked like there was 


red paint all over it, at first I thought it was a reflection of light but it wasn't. I sat it 


to the side when I saw a note laying on the bottom writing in the paint.


It said, “Move far away and never turn the way you came or I will remove 


you myself with force(i'll start with your family)”.

 

I turned around with shock and confusion to see if someone was standing 


there to say it was a prank. To me it feels like it's getting too serious to threaten 


not only me but my family and not be able to do anything. When I got home I 


asked my mom that we need to move now and I showed her the note that was 


writing in paint and she grabbed it out my hand and ripped it up and told me to 


joking with her I said it wasn't a joke and told her this was serious and that I 


found it at the bottom of my locker.

 

The note still had rust from me pulling it out of my old dirty locker that I 


never clean so I came to the conclusion that I should take it to the sheriff 


downtown to swipe fingerprints or dna off the note to see if it traces back to 


anyone I know or not. So that's what I did. I took it down and gave it to the sheriff 


and told him what to do with it and he came back with my DNA. I then started to 


question myself and asked myself if I could be doing these things or that maybe 


i'm haunting myself or was it a coincidence maybe they were wearing gloves it 


didn't look like my handwriting though. I questioned everything like if it was me 


whose blood was on the note or paint or who put the pans in my locker who 


broke them who was messing with me no one seemed to be in my life until, I had 


an instant chill down my spine when I remembered everything and who it might 


be.

I grabbed my keys and hopped in my old blue car that smells like gasoline 


and drove down my street to the stop sign and parked by the sidewalk and 


hopped out to look around to see if anyone was watching and looked down at the 


sidewalk to see what the guy was looking at and picked up. I didn't see anything 


but a rusty ring on the pavement. Whatever it was was definitely sitting there for 


a long time to make a rusty ring, and it was the shape of a coin. I caught a 


glimpse of a very bright light that blinded me. When I looked over at it I walked 


over to see another coin that was gold and looked really really old. It smelt very 


old too. 

I didn't want to touch it because it felt like it could be the only thing that 


makes sense. Everything started to get worse when I witnessed this event so I 


left it. I went back to my car and put it in drive and hit the gas and realized I 


wasn't moving anywhere. I thought maybe there was something wrong with the 


engine,maybe it overheated since it was like one hundred degrees out. I opened 


the hood and looked around because I thought something was watching me but I 


didn't see anything so I resumed my progression of trying to fix the car.  

 

When I touched the wires to the engine it burnt my skin and I could 


instantly smell cooked flesh. I started to panic and I was screaming really loud 


but I got over it immediately, I then tried to slow down and really focus on what 


i'm trying to fix and saw that one of the cords came undone so I plugged it back 


into the battery closed the hood and hopped back in my car, turned it on and saw 


the coin in the corner of my eye, it was like it wanted me to pick it up, but Iignored 


it and drove home to put ice on my burn and to calm down but realized the house 


was really quiet and I seen my mom laying on the floor with a pool of blood 


around her body. I started to hear ringing and lost control of my body and fell on 


my knees as I struggled to get back up. I started shaking furiously and started to 


feel needles in my back. 

 


Then I felt it spread through my entire body and I saw blood drip from my 


mouth,then heat filled my veins. I tried to gasp for air but I kept choking on my 


blood, and a really really bright white light surrounded me like fog and felt heavy 


moisture surrounding my body. As I started to get cold I was also starting to get 


stiff and could feel that I could no longer move my arms or legs. I tried to look 


behind me but I was unable to. The air started to get heavier and felt like it was 


crushing the last bit of energy I still had. Ringing filled my ears as everything 


around me soon went quiet, I could no longer feel the thump in my chest. I felt 


finally at peace and in my mind I felt as if I escaped whatever was trying to get 


me.

I came up with the idea to use curiosity by using a site from R.L. 


Stine where he teaches or gives examples of where or how to get idea 


to make a book more interesting and putting people's fears for them to 


be on edge while reading. The coin idea came from a normal day 


when I was being drove home from school and we stop at a stop sign 


and watched two workers walk by I watched him bend over and pick 


something up so I was curious so in this story the main character 


picked up a cursed coin and used my imagination and used it 


for my short story.



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