Vision by John Sharp

Author:John Sharp
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: horror, dark fantasy, shifter, john sharp

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“That was fun,” my shadow says, blending into the various shades of darkness around me as I exit the asylum. I smile but don’t respond. Although annoying, my shadow can be helpful if it suits him, or if he’s bored. Only partially existing on this plane of reality, like myself, he can manipulate a few small objects before tiring. More often than not he will just ignore me and do whatever he wants.

I really wish I could drive, but despite being seventeen and passing every test they throw at me, the state simply won’t allow a person with my mental condition to drive. They are probably afraid that I’ll see a large bug or something and swerve into an oncoming car. A valid concern. Well, at least there is plenty of entertainment as I walk home.

As I continue a terrified orange and white puff ball zooms past me as my shadow chases a cat up a large willow tree. Bad choice there, kitty. A rough patch of bark rapidly moves on the trunk, intercepting the cat. With the speed of a mongoose the cat is sucked into the tree, leaving only enough time for a quick yowl of pain and a single tuft of orange fur floating in the wind. My shadow finds the cat’s death hilarious, laughing as the tree belches. I give the tree a wide birth.

A rumbling fills the street as a horde of creatures pursue a large stick like man who stands nearly ten feet tall, yet is skinnier than I am. Naked with strangely long limbs and no outward signs of gender, it races down the street with long frantic strides, trying to escape its pursuers. The creatures chasing him are ones I’ve seen before, lots in times in fact. They seem to be prodigious hunters in one of the other worlds. Moving more swiftly than most natural land animals, they have four strong legs, allowing incredible bursts of speed as they weave in and out of obstacles in the other world, cutting off the stick man’s escape routes. They have a large upraised hump of tan, hairless flesh on their backs like an immense shark fin that wobbles slightly as they run. It appears to be more cartilage than bone, with hundreds of gold rimmed eyes along its surface. This must give them a complete field of vision and from the speed that those eyes dart around they must be excellent at tracking prey. Covered in soft gray fur, except the ridge on their backs they have no eyes on their bony heads, but who needs them when your back is covered in them? But they do have large mouths filled with several rows of sharp, hook-like teeth, more for seizing prey than scissoring flesh. These vicious traits are offset by the long, fluffy gray squirrel tail each of them have. I call them watchers.

I watch as they speed past me, moving through cars and trees like they aren’t even there. Luckily for me

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