I've been trapped in this small apartment for two days now. I woke yesterday morning to the screams of one or more of my neighbors from outside. When I peered from behind my curtains out into the unusually dark and gray morning, I was able to glimpse something darker than the morning moving extremely fast, in an unnatural manner. I noticed my bird, Edgar Allen, was very quiet and looking terrified, as he huddled in his cage.
Throughout the day and well into last night, the quiet was broken by periodic wild and, to use a cliche that I never truly understood before the last two days, blood-curdling screams. I have only tried to take brief looks outside a few more times, but all I have managed to see are blurs of dark movement. I feel confident those movements were not made by any of my neighbors, and I don't believe they were made by anything human. It has been hours since I have tried to peek out of a window. Ever since I heard someting scratch against the outside walls.
I wasn't prepared for this, and I will need to go out to try to locate some food very soon now. Everything is very quiet out there. Quieter than I have ever heard it before. I don't know whether it's safer to wait for the possibility of daylight, which if anything like today, will be nonexistent, or to try to use the cover of night. I just don't have a good feeling about this.
I will probably leave just before, what would normally, be dawn. I don't know if I will be able to get back with food, but one way or another, there's a good chance I might find out what's happening out there. If for any reason I don't make it, you will hear no more from me.
Take care, and, good luck.
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It sounds like a real horror story. If I was you, I would stay at home no matter what was happening outside. However, I really hoped someone else to make sure what happened. By the way, what was that?
ReplyDeleteAh, that I can't tell you. You will have to wait until the next chapter. I'm not sure when that will be, but it probably won't too long. Maybe I will have to write out the whole story first, and post a little bit at a time on the blog. I'll think about it.
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