Monday, April 8, 2013

Dream: This Ain't Alaska

His first mistake was thinking I'd go down without a fight.

He shoved me into the walk-in freezer and bolted the door. I didn't know how long it would take for the human body to freeze to death, and I sure as hell wasn't going to put it to the test. I formulated a plan for survival right away. I needed to knock those fans off the ceiling. The problem was I didn't have a crowbar handy.

When we were kids in Alaska, we called them snot-sicles. I could feel them forming on my face as I desperately searched through the cardboard boxes for anything that would help me. I opened them one by one and tossed them aside as I rejected them. I knew I was running out of time. I needed to stop crying, or my face was going to freeze like that, literally.

His second mistake was thinking the dismembered body of another of his victims would deter me from my goal.

I'm sorry, dead girl. I'm sorry this happened to you. I'm sorry you're dead. I'm sorry I had to use your frozen arm as a bat to disable those fans. I'm sorry you had to watch it all with your frozen dead eyes, staring at me in disbelief.

With magnificent strength, I swung, and the metal box that encased the freezer fans came crashing to the floor. The chamber echoed eerie silence.

His third mistake was coming back for me.

8 comments:

  1. Chilling...pardon the pun. I imagine you bludgeoned him that arm.

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  2. Scary stuff Nessa. I'm off to sleep and hope not to dream :)

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    1. Don't you dare not dream, Joe. Even the nightmares are great writing material.

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  3. Great story, but I want to know more! As I started reading it I thought OMG I hope this isn't something that's happened to you.

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    1. Only in my dreams, Dicky. As far as I can remember, I've never found a dead body in the walk-in freezer...correction, I've never found a dead HUMAN body.

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  4. Finish this up and it's a movie!

    Pearl

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