After Darkness Falls - 10 Tales of Terror - Volume one by Drabble Matt

Author:Drabble, Matt [Drabble, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Eden Publications
Published: 2013-12-25T05:00:00+00:00

The morning sun was shining through the cabin window with the promise of a new day when the phone’s incessant buzzing woke him from a troubled sleep.

The cell phone was on the bedside table and his hand scrambled around clumsily for it. He cracked his eyes open a touch and instantly regretted it. His head throbbed monstrously and he instantly wondered just why people would put themselves through this kind of wakeup call on a regular basis.

He knocked the phone onto the floor and had to lean over to find it. His stomach contents sloshed around dangerously and he fought to keep them down. He picked the phone up and heaved himself back into bed. He wasn’t surprised to find himself fully clothed and on top of the covers.

The phone’s display was showing that there were several messages, both text and answer machine from colleagues at his old job looking to spread juicy gossip and from the couple of friends that he had managed to make. He began to read through the written ones with increasing shock and disbelief. He switched to the answer phone and his eyes grew wider. He sat bolt upright in the cabin bed ignoring the roll of nausea. At some point last night his ex-wife and ex-boss had been taking a stroll alongside the ocean when they had been attacked. Apparently something had assaulted them on the beach and then dragged them into the ocean, never to be seen again. The police had found bloody and shredded clothing on the sand belonging to the happy couple. The word was that they would have considered a wild animal attack, if not for the fact that their remains had been carried off in the water.

Albert’s mind was racing with more emotions than he could effectively process. Yes he had been bitter and angry for the first time last night, but he had also loved and borderline worshipped her. It was a strange and unsettling mixture of love and hate, relief and fear.

He swung his legs over the side of the bed and for the first time he noticed the typewriter. As well as the crumpled up balls of paper, there were now several neatly stacked pages. He couldn’t remember writing anything late last night, let alone anything that he would have wanted to keep.

He picked up a couple of the pages and began to read. What he saw shocked him. When he had been a small boy he had been terrified by the movie “The Creature from the Black Lagoon”. It was a 1954 film concerning the scientific hunt for the monster. The image of something lurking below the cool calm surface had transfixed him and put him off swimming as a child. His biggest fear was to be swimming across an open lake and see the shore ahead, only to find your ankle grabbed from beneath the waves and for you to be pulled under with the dark water filling your mouth and lungs as you screamed in terror.

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