The Forest by Collings Michaelbrent

Author:Collings, Michaelbrent [Collings, Michaelbrent]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Horror
Publisher: Written Insomnia Press
Published: 2020-08-15T22:00:00+00:00

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Interlude

(When Sammy Was Young)

He fell asleep to heat. Now he wakes to heat even worse. The worst heat of all, the worst heat he has ever felt. He feels like he is in an oven, and Sammy worries he is in Hell. He heard Callee Prescott talk about Hell once, and asked Mommy and Daddy if it was real.

They laughed, and said of course not, but there had been something in their eyes that said they were lying. They both believed in Hell. Maybe they had seen it, even.

The hot is so bad, and so terrible, and worst of all it’s a dark hot. It’s a hot that makes Sammy float in and out of sleep and twisted dreams of flying glass and blood and trees reaching for him.

Then brightness blinds him. Cool air breathes life into his lungs.

Sammy blinks. He sees a form. He thinks it is a person, but cannot be sure, because the light behind the person – strange, bright, pulsing light and wisps of fog that trickle in and out of it all – is blinding. “Are you an angel?” he asks/whimpers.

“No,” says the person. “I wish I was.”

Sammy can almost see. Almost, but not quite. He can just feel the hot and the hotter and the hottest of maybe-Hell. Only the feel of his unicorn still clutched in his little fingers gives him hope that maybe this isn’t that place. Would Hell let him have his favorite toy?

He sobs. The brightness has come just like the dark, but it’s all the same. It all hurts and makes him afraid.

The person – angel? Devil? – has been speaking in a whisper that does not tell Sammy whether the whisperer is man or woman, and the light around the person shines so bright he still can’t see who or what looks at him. Now the voice speaks again, still a whisper, though this time the person/thing sounds like he/she/it is talking to herself/himself/itself. “The dead don’t stay dead in the forest. Remember that.”

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