It was a cold night in the middle of winter. A boy
lay asleep in his bed. Sleeping, sleeping peacefully at the beginning of his
slumber but then the boy began to tense up and his body language became
contorted as if to convey messages of pain. Now we enter the mind of the boy
and see what he dreams of. The boy is in an big empty room, he slowly
navigates through the darkness looking for a way out. He sees a faint light and
frantically presses forward. He feels as if something is following him and is too
scared to look back. He breaks out into a run and storms through a door leading
outside. Its nighttime, and there is no moon to aid the oppressing darkness.
The area is heavily wooded and the young boy has no choice but to navigate
through the forest. He does not think about it long because he feels that same
feeling of being followed by an ominous omnipresent presence. The forest is
very dark and not much light from the sky peeks through the dense forestry. The
boy begins to hear a ringing sound, as the forest progressively grows darker
and harder to pass through. The boy decides to change direction and find an
easier path to traverse. The ringing subsides however the forest still grows
darker. The ringing begins and the boy becomes feeling helpless. But this feeling
soon subsides as the boy makes it out onto the forest and onto a mile wide
unpaved road with forestry lining both sides. The boy cannot see when this road
ends for the darkness does not permit it. The boy begins his journey down the
unfinished path and stares intently forward. His fear compels his pupils
forward and blurs his peripheral vision from gazing. However, for this reason
the boy thinks he sees something. Peeking out of the forest, a tall slender
entity. He can not make it out and closes his eyes to clear his vision but see
nothing. The boy awakens in his room, drenched in a cold sweat with a putrid
smell enveloping his nostrils.
Authors Note: I loosely, loosely based this story
off of the prompt based on Ravana’s dreams during his slumber. The only thing
that I retold from that story was that the main character is experiencing
something while asleep. I just wanted to tell a story about a nightmare a boy
was experiencing because some entity is haunting him and his dreams. I left the
ending as a cliffhanger so I can see what people interpret happening and taking
that feedback and extending the story for my portfolio.
