lets play

an in and out phase falling in to a dream is a woman named poppy, a boy who waits for her in a garden of nightmares to play a game for her freedom. poppy slowly realises she's been there before.

Total darkness that creeps away from the sides to clear and reveal a boy.

Scrawny and thin with messy, honey hair, skin as pale as the whites of eyes and his clothing was a grey and black block striped pyjamas. A mischievous grin is spread across his sharp fetched head and eyes that gleam curiosity in nightshade grey and red.

“Let’s play a game of find you’re freedom, come on! You have no choice” he sang with the highest of voices I have ever heard.

Then strait away the darkness came back and cut me off from him and just as the bit I could see of him was about to be swallowed up, I saw that wide grin turn from big to small but not a frown was shown on the ongoing teeth line.

Opening my eyes I then realised I was still in my bed, my bed sheets crisp and cold, like I was never in it from the start. Looking to my clock for the time I was in confusion to see it still said 11:00pm, witch funnily enough was the same time I saw just as I came into bed.

Maybe I was not asleep for that long even though it felt like hours. No my clocks battery must have ran out of juice I will have to replace it in the morning.

Not feeling as confused and letting the fatigue wash over me, I lay my head back down and scrunch my duvet past my shoulders to trap in my body heat. Soon I was back into a sleeping state.

“Come on pop let’s see if you will win this game the second time round” that voice again, it rattles around in the darkness of my mind.

Author's Note

this first chapter is not very long but this is only a short story. it is a mini project to help with my writers block for my other story Hound of my Heart.