Excerpt: With a Vengence

“Go away! Go away! Just go away!” And suddenly, despite the dark, I could faintly see her. The outline of her figure, drenched in blood, and her cold and cruel face, with blood running down it, was in front of me, looking at me. Her darkened eyes, though hard to distinguish, were piercing and filled me with fright. I was unable to move. I willed my body to run, to jump of the bed and get the hell out of the room, but yet my body refused to listen. I sat there frozen in shock and fear and panic.

“L-l-leave m-me alo-n-ne.” The words finally came, weak and trembling, but there. That was right, Alice said they couldn’t hurt, that they could do the most damage when fear was present. “Leave me alone,” I again repeated, this time with a steadier voice, and a false confidence that I did not feel.

Anger crossed the woman’s face, I could see her eyebrows furrow in discontentment. She slowly crawled towards me, her hands clutching at the sheets of my bed, pulling her along. And then she sprang, and I felt myself being shaken, her hands cold upon my shoulders and unforgivingly tight in their grip. I shrieked and screamed, trying to push away and get free. My breath came in quick gasps, I found myself dizzy and unable to draw a deep breath. Despite the dark I could feel everything getting darker, and then my body hit the floor.