Death and Candy by David Maloney

Author:David Maloney [Maloney, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: David Maloney
Published: 2019-11-30T18:30:00+00:00

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Dreams of Death

Every night when I go to sleep I watch somebody die.

For a long time I thought it was only nightmares, until I watched my sixth-grade teacher Ms. Harden die of a heart attack in her sleep, and the next day discovered that she really had died. I’ve seen a few other people I know die since then, but usually it’s strangers.

It’s a terrible curse to have—watching people die in your dreams, and I’ve tried everything from hypnosis to antipsychotics to get rid of it. But I’m not writing this to tell you about my bizarre medical condition. I’m writing it because of the last dream that I had.

After two days straight of being awake I finally resigned myself to my nightmares and succumbed to sleep. That night’s dream was… well, I don’t know how to describe it. So I’ll just tell you what I saw.

The dream was in a darkened room, lit by a circle of flickering candles that lined the walls. In the center was a chair, and on the chair sat a woman, naked, bound and gagged, her body convulsing with violent sobs.

A robed figure approached from the shadows. As he drew closer, the woman began to struggle violently against her bonds, so that the screeching sounds of the metal chair rocking back and forth on cement echoed in the silence of the room.

The man let down his hood, and I was surprised to see that he looked perfectly ordinary. If he felt any emotion his face did not betray it as he drew a long and slender blade from beneath his robes. He plunged it into the woman’s chest, and she began to shriek and moan, pulling so hard against her restraints that her wrists sprayed blood all over her surroundings.

She didn’t die, though. At least not right away.

The man twisted the knife and then pulled it out. The woman’s breath came in ragged gasps around her gag. And then I saw something that made me physically sick. Two shadowy black hands reached out from the wound in her chest and sunk their claws into her flesh, causing little rivulets of blood to bubble out where they had pierced the skin.

Then they began to push, spreading the wound wider and wider.

The woman shrieked and moaned, and her body shook with frantic spasms, but the hands continued to pull.

Soon the hole was large enough for a shadowy black head to emerge, dripping some sort of black goo that sizzled and smoked as it dripped on the woman’s flesh. The creature pushed its shoulders out next, and I could hear the sound of the woman’s ribs snapping like twigs as her body folded and collapsed in on itself, peeled off of the shadow body like a rubber glove.

The shadowy black form fully emerged, and the robed man came forth and draped a crimson robe just like his own around it.

The creature’s face began to change texture and color, until it resembled a human with no face. The

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