Frank stood inside the broken down church on the city’s north side, a bad time of night in an even worse part of town. The building had been abandoned for some time now, enough for the roof to display gaping holes where the wood had simply given way to elements and lack of care. Moonlight [...]
The door’s hinges cracked unceremoniously and then gave into the pressure of years of steadfast resolve. Frank could not yet see the figure responsible for the noise, but was somehow certain that they could hear the pounding in his chest, as if this were some twisted rendition of The Telltale Heart. Letting out the slightest [...]
The walls of the small box he was contained in, perhaps the only structure that seemed to have held its integrity in the decaying building began suffocating him. A grim reminder there was nowhere to go except straight through the man who was headed in his direction. The sound of his water-resistant coat moving as [...]
Time slows down when you pay attention to it - sometimes it even stops. It allows you to absorb every detail that just a second ago was irrelevant. To savor and damn every blessing and curse that is bestowed upon you at that very moment - the shadowy cloak and the unsettling venue.
It was in [...]
The faintest whimper escaped the vagabond’s lips, but Frank couldn’t tell at this distance whether it was born of glee or fright. He continued to watch with a growing interest. Dirty gloved hands, the fingers chopped off, raised something just inches from the man’s face as if he were studying it - no, admiring it. He [...]
It was at that moment, watching the mysterious item being carried out of the building, that the urge swelled inside him. A need so great and overwhelming that for an instant Frank was more frightened of his own impulses than the current situation he was in. Something just as primeval as his survival instinct demanded that [...]
White hot tendrils of pain bit into his leg like barbed wire as his knee met squarely with the road. The businessman took the brunt of the fall, his back bending awkwardly on the curb as almost all of Frank’s weight came pummeling down on him. Something cracked loudly and unnaturally, but neither man showed [...]