Title
Dream State
Screenshot
2
Word Count
316
Story (also attached)
Much like the wandering shadows that enshrouded the flaking plaster walls of her prison, the woman’s
fragile psyche was deteriorating as the hours went by and the night was killed by the morning sun. The
hypnotic sway of the chains that once restrained her weak and famished body acted like a metronome as she
lay weeping in the corner of her cell. She hadn’t been asleep for three days. The old man would not allow
it.
Hours pass as the girl struggles through a dreamless slumber. The cryptic flashbacks of what he did to
her kept her subconscious alert, and kept her out of a dream state. She was dead to the world around her,
but she could still hear the chains on the ceiling rattle as a cool breeze crept down the corridors and
seeped under the cold metal door of her cell. She could hear the faint humming of the electricity as it
passed through the rusting conductors of the only illuminated fixture in the prison. It was that dying
light that kept her sane in her new world of darkness.
The door cries on its hinges as the man pushes his way into the poor girl’s cell. The terrified woman is
shaken from her trance and opens her eyes to be greeted by a blinding light behind a blur as her tired
eyes come to focus. A man in a black coat brushes the woman’s amber hair away from her face.
“Welcome back.” The stranger says sensitively. The woman tries to scream as the man takes hold of her
wrist, but she just doesn’t have the strength anymore.
“It’s okay. You’ve been in this hospital bed for the last seven months. You’ve been in a coma. I’m just
so glad that you’re back with us. I love you, sweetie.” Her dad says with tears in his eyes.
“Everything’s going to be okay now.”
Kravenwolf
