Squatter's Rites - Volunteer State Community College

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CAPRICE
A long dark hallway filled with rotting corpses, your afraid to look down, you surrender to
the dark, the darkness pulses through your veins, you scream, you panic only to realize it’s
just a dream or is it a reality you once knew.
Your awake now, remembering the powerful vision when you feel someone watching, you
look over every corner of your bedroom, it seems strange somehow. You think your fucking
paranoid and lye back down, your eyes slowly close.
Your back in that same hallway, your senses heighten, you smell flesh burning, you feel hot,
your suffocating, you start screaming, it’s your flesh that’s burning, you start running when
the rotting corpses grabs you, their not dead, oh shit their not dead.
You see a light at the end, you keep running, you want to wake up, but can’t. You feel like
you’ve been running for hours, the lights almost out.
Suddenly you rise up, seeing what is in the light standing right in front of your bed. Your
worst fear magnified by a thousand.
Can you beat it?
Tamela Harris
Cynthia Knappp