By SAMUEL TORRES
Staff Writer
This is no ordinary story as some may assume, between life and death we never think of what’s between, or beneath. It becomes more clear as we continue to progress in life with religious belief and the customary outputs but wasn’t it all too much? What will it bring us to in the end?
The world begins to crumble slowly as each ground piece becomes nothing but dust, the lives of people flying off into the sky but some choosing the in-between. We had never learned that there is more than just Heaven and Hell, there is this in-between that we never choose to know about becomes once in…there is no out on what you become. Monsters they say, the carnivore creatures who prey on the innocent souls who beg for mercy as their eyes begin to fill up with tears.
The monsters are what made up the in-between, they are not living nor dead, they walk and feed off things like us but it’s how we see it. Gory images filling the imagination ripped off bloody faces with their eyes either popped off or shown no pupil, they had scratch marks and teeth marks on their body where the infection began.
TruthVill was never any ordinary town, it never owned up to its name. Everyone had their own secrets that were just banging to get out but the more they hide it the more unbearable to hide, we cannot keep this as a secret anymore. Alone as the screeches of cars zooming off out of the town, the yells of people running away from the figures in which seemed to be creatures unknown to us. They had pale scale skin with their fingers grown into sharp weapons, they were covered in red as they chased down everything that they saw move.
It wasn’t always like this, I had barely moved in from Seoul after leaving my tragic life. My parents kicked me out at the age of 14 for not being the kid they wanted as for being in an adoption care facility, it wasn’t any better. I was stuck there getting bullied from time to time and then ending up having scars from it all as well as head damage, I wasn’t able to function properly due to the hitting and blackouts but I was able to make it out of there at the age of 18.
Myung was in which I named myself after my favorite actor, my parents never had the time to name me so I had to do it myself at the age of 14 when I began to understand what words meant. Myung was a part of the greatest horror movie that I have seen at age 17 when I was working at a department shop. I saw the movie then pulled out only 50 cents I had left. It was all I had after spending it on food. I looked down at the movie, putting it in my jacket and hiding it then waited till after work to watch it in my little home I found abandoned. I had a DVD player on top of my television then placed the movie sitting down on the cold floor eating ramen noodles.
Myung has been my inspiration since then so I wanted to name myself after my idol, the day I was ready to start work again these loud bangs came out from the house door. The T.v switched from grey static to the news as the leader of the United States began to speak.
“Listen this is not a drill, everyone must stay home and lock your doors there is a huge spread of a disease which kills its victim but it doesn’t end there,” The fear in his eyes said it all but he had remained calm for the people, “Do not go outside, do not be fooled, these people are no longer who you once loved…they are creatures who only know destruction.” I stood in front of the t.v with eyes wide then suddenly a loud explosion came from outside smoke filling the oxygen that was once clean. I opened the curtain slowly then saw white pale creatures that had scaly skin covering their bodies, they leaped around houses as if they were some sort of cat but instead of having fur they have a tuff shell which leads down to their long sharp tail.
I looked up at the sky as it became orange with smoke flying to it, the clouds became no longer white, people cried and tried to run off but it wasn’t any use. These creatures were fast and jumped at great lengths, the bodies of people got dragged then no longer were seen till a red-stained followed up to their cold body.
I looked at my phone as there was no signal then everything was cut off, I stood there in disbelief and my heart began to pound losing sight of reality. Everything fell quiet or so I thought it did as so many thoughts ran at once in my head, I looked up at the window then slowly walked to it my footsteps echoing through the house. Everything was quiet and the floor creaked and as I reached the window opening the curtain slowly my eye peeking out everything came to a stop, suddenly one of the lifeless creatures jumped against the window screeching like a siren as I fell back onto the floor.
The window slowly began to crack with the loud noise frequency of the monster. I froze up from shock then looked at its white eyes as if it had no soul attached to it but looked as if it was human. Was this between life and death? Was this the end or just the beginning?