Entity by Donald Morrison

Author:Donald Morrison [Morrison, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dark Forest Publishing
Published: 2019-03-05T22:00:00+00:00

Sarge slept peacefully, falling asleep nearly moments after lying his head on the pillow. It had been some time since he had rested in a bed as comfortable as the one he now lay in. He’d drifted off and now found himself standing in his old house; the one he had lived in before his wife and daughter had been taken from him. The sun was shining brightly through the bedroom window and he could hear light laughter coming from downstairs. ‘Caroline?’ he thought to himself as the vision shifted around him. He started towards the door, his pace quickening as the sound of his daughter giggling fell into his ears. “Moni?” he whispered as the stairs leading to the living room approached. He started down, taking them carefully as a tear began to work its way down his cheek. His heart began to swell in his chest. He kept moving downwards, calling out, “Caroline, Moni?” When he hit the bottom of the stairs he started towards the kitchen, and the sound of their voices. He could feel his pace quickening, his feet moving faster along the carpet. Then he reached the kitchen door and stopped. Spread out in front of him, just inside the doorway, scattered across the black and white linoleum floor were pieces of metal and plastic. He looked up and found himself standing in the middle of an intersection. The street was littered in a sea of broken glass and plastic, which glittered as the mid-day sun hit against it and he could smell the acrid stench of melted plastic and burnt metal in the air. He slowly stepped forward, recognizing the car that lay upside down, crumpled around the light pole fifty feet away. Another tear fell from his eye. He started towards the wreckage, passing a large truck with its engine sitting where the driver had been moments before, a smoking pile of debris scattered around it. He quickened to a jog, dashing as quickly as he could to the overturned sedan. “Caroline!” he shouted, panic building. “Moni!!” He reached the car and climbed atop it, peering down into the interior from the crumpled side window. Lying crumpled within were the still corpses of his wife and daughter, deep gouges running across their flesh, their faces blank and crusted with broken glass, eyes pressed closed. He began to shake, his breath coming in short hitches. He stared downwards, his jaw quivering as silent lips formed their names. Then a freezing chill ran across his back and his wife’s eyes shot open.

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