Pray You Die Alone: Horror Stories by Prunty Andersen

Author:Prunty, Andersen [Prunty, Andersen]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Grindhouse Press
Published: 2012-01-14T16:00:00+00:00

The Nowhere Room

Anna Seifert sat in front of her computer, trying to work on a literary paper about the writings of Ambrose Bierce. So far, she hadn’t made it any further than the title page. The cursor blinked in and out of the grayish-white background, after the terminal “t” of her last name.

It was a beautiful early summer day. She stared out the window. Her study felt like a prison. The window afforded a perfect view of the children across the street. Three kids who looked to be around the age of five ran around the neighborhood yard in an insane pattern, no doubt driven by a perfectly understandable kid-logic. The next minute, she was yanked from their sunny imaginings and thrown to the floor.

It had been a while since she’d had one of these attacks but she immediately recognized it for what it was.

Once again, her memory was trying to kill her.

On the floor, struggling to crawl across the carpet and pull herself up on something, her vision turned a screaming red.

Her head throbbed.

Her muscles knotted up.

Her gorge rose and she exploded a pool of stinking vomit, some unseen hand forcing her down into it.

And then she heard the voice, calling her name like metallic fire and brimstone scraping at the inside of her skull, the backs of her eyes.

“Anna!”

She tried to answer it, but her gorge came up again, turning her vocal cords acid and watery.

“Anna! Anna! Anna! Anna! Anna!”

The voice always liked to wait until she was alone. Sure, it removed embarrassment but it also removed any sense of comfort she might gain from those around her.

The angry swarm in her mind and viscera, like a vicious hybrid of psychic bees, screamed on for a few more minutes before leaving her stunned, squirming in her own vomit, piss, and shit. Her pride was gone someplace else but the past, the past was right there in front of her.

Anna saw a small abandoned house in a stand of trees behind an empty field.

She saw a small fire burning in a thickly rusted grill without legs.

She saw a sixteen-year-old girl named Carmen.

She saw visions and colors, some of them beautiful, some of them horrible. She felt a glittering, revelatory magic in her veins and felt it turn ugly.

She rose from her expulsion, went into the lonely bathroom and washed the stink from herself. It had taken years but she now knew what she had to do.

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