Dark Card Trick

A card trick performed by a psycho magician.

Black.
A man occupies his place upon the stage, performing his favorite act.

Asking a young girl to pick a random card from his deck.
Without skipping a beat he guesses the card, looking ever so amused.

The Black Ace.
He stands up slowly almost looking as if he is straining himself to be in a perfect upright position.

He looks towards the ceiling, encouraging all that watch his act to bend back their necks and look up.
Everybody is excited.

Black..
There is nothing there, but they all keep looking up hoping something magical will happen, but all that is seen on the ceiling is a dark shadow, caused by the effect of the stage lights.

People begin to look at the man again, wondering what trick he is trying to pull.
All he does is stand there, looking up into the void.
The first person stands up to leave, 11 minutes after the man had started his crazy stare.
The doors are locked.  

More go over to the door to see what the problem seems to be, people begin to panic.

Black...
nightmares are seen, bodies entwined.
men scream like girls, women jump into the arms of their children.

The crowd starts to yell at the performer, asking why he wont let them leave.

They slap him, kick him, punch him, he does not budge.

The crowd starts looking for other ways to get out.

All hell breaks loose.

But the performer continues to look up.

Black....

It has been over 3 hours now.
The crowd of people are starting to fight among each other.
They don't even know why, each person just feels right to blame their predicament on all but themselves.

A single man throws a punch.  After that ignition, everybody is in a frenzy.
One after another, people drop to the floor, unconscious or dead.

The children start to fight for their parents, causing them too to fall the the floor.

Every person is down and out bleeding and injured, except the performer and the little girl that picked the card.

Black.....
The performer looks down takes his deck out of his pocket and paces through the lying crowd.

He places a card on every one of their faces, making sure they are face down.

He does this until all people have one card on their face.
The performer then walks up to the little girl, having one card that was left from the deck.

He places it lightly in her hand and walks off.

She stands at the base of the stage, staring at the card in her hands.
The Black Ace
Black......

Author's Note

This was a dream i had 2 years ago.
i think it portrayed strongly of how i felt at the time.
I found it in a note i wrote and made it sound better.
if i where to put up the original, you would be able to see it was written when i was a lot younger.