Welcome to the Aurora Wasteland by Vaughn Ashby

Author:Vaughn Ashby [Ashby, Vaughn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aurora Wasteland
Published: 2020-06-16T04:00:00+00:00

SOMETIMES OLD LADIES SEE DEAD PEOPLE - PART 3

I’m going to finish telling you a story

It’s going to involve a missing old woman

And the fact that sometimes old women see dead people

Oh and maybe a hint of the tower of the dead

Welcome to the Aurora Wasteland

Connections in the Aurora Wasteland aren’t pleasant. You never get what you want. You always get what it wants. It takes and takes and takes, it never gives. It’s connections run one way, and one way only. Into the wasteland. Into darkness.

As Doloris stared into her tea, her computer chimed in the distance. She always kept the sound turned up loud so that she could hear when an electronic mail came in. She rushed over to see it was from Mollie. Obviously, she was having trouble sleeping too.

After watching several episodes of Who wants to be a Millionaire, Doloris went to bed but she laid there tossing and turning. Eventually, she’d gotten up and stared into the night sky while sipping her tea. Everything from the last couple days just kept cycling over and over in her mind.

It was a comfort to see the same thing was happening with Mollie.

Doloris opened the email, the message from Mollie was nice, maybe she had been too hard on her earlier. Yes, she probably had, she’d have to rectify that when she saw her next. But what really caught her attention was the pictures. The tower stared back at her. It swayed and reached for her. The image was alive. She stared at them, unable to look away. Tears welled up in her eyes. She could see her husband in the tower. Pain on his face, reaching for her to help.

In a snap, and with no preparation Doloris, still in her housecoat, ran as quickly as she could out to her car. She frantically drove out to the lake. With nothing but slippers on her feet, she stomped her way out to the point in the lake where she had seen the bodies.

They were still there, reaching for her. The sounds of their bodies moving echoed through the silence of the night.

Without Mollie there to stop her, Doloris stepped out into the cold lake water. Soon it was up high enough that she had to swim. Slowly she made her way over to the tower of bodies.

Exhausted but determined, she reached the tower of carnage. Though the face of her husband seemed to be gone, cautiously, she approached it. The water became shallower as she did. Eventually, it reached the point where she could stand up.

She circled the tower, the hands and faces of those in it followed her around. But nowhere did she see her husband. He seemed to be gone.

As she turned to leave, she noticed just how rocky and uneven the ground was. Only after nearly slipping on a rock and catching herself did she notice that they weren’t rocks, but that the tower of bodies continued under the water.

Panic rushed through her as she realized what she was standing on.

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