I'm too tired for this.
You know, the kind of tired where you see shapes in the dark and hear things that aren't really there. It's my own fault though, the hours are long, but retail's the only job I can hold after missing so much school.
But the soft blue light of the screen keeps me awake while the click-clack of my keyboard reverberates across the room. I'm talking to someone online. They're odd, albeit nice. As a child, I never got along with others. They all thought I was crazy, so I resorted to the internet and never returned to real life.
The grandfather clock strikes thrice. 3AM! I have work at 7! I throw myself onto the bed. The constant motion of time never ceases, and neither does my aptitude for losing track of it.
And I fade into blackness as reality seeps away. The colours of light dance over my eyelids like the lagging pixels that peirce my vision. After a while, my consciousness joins the ballet of lethargy. It leaps and pirouettes until its eventual end.
Once more, I am gone.
I awake to the sound of bells - the aria of the sun. I peer through the dejection of my room.
"Ba-dump... ba-dump..." into absolute silence. The thing drowned out all other noise with a tumult of apathy.
A disconsolate figure, blackened veins stretched into shrivelled greyish skin that taughtened over angular bones.
The thing's eyes had been hollowed out. They were never-ending, it was as if you could fall into them and sink further, and further, and further forever. The cavities were encrusted with dust as though they had never once closed. And like a leaky tap, vermillion blood clots were cried again and again.
And it's jaw, it's gaping jaw -
It's as tall as the monster's shoulders are broad.
It wants you to walk right in.
My limbs are fixed. All I can do is cry, all anyone can do is cry. The static in the darkness starts creeping into waves, crashing against the cessation of my room as my lungs distend with water.
The monster glowers at me as I drown... and now I will die. The last thing I will see is its smile, one of ecstasy so pure it almost resembled agony.
Twice more, I am gone.