Lights Out

Contents

1. That Room

2. The Man in the Air Duct

3. On Key

4. The Burning House

5. The Blood Covered Dagger

6. The Basement and the Boy

7. Burning Bricks

8. Smoking

9. Cask in the Cellar 

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That Room 

You walk into a dark, small room and reach for the light switch on the left, inside the door. The light takes a while before it flickers on, dim but good enough.

You look around the small and empty room before the small chair at the back of the room catches your eye. It is an unusual chair, brown and old. It only has three legs. But the thing that makes you uncomfortable is that you see there is rope attached to the chair legs and tied to two different poles at the other end of the room.

Suddenly you feel an urge to walk over to it and sit in it.

But then you try to tell yourself, 'you know better than this Zoey, this is just a set up and you know that.'

You find yourself lifting one foot off the ground and placing it in front of you. Then the next moment you are sitting in the chair, and your ankles and hands are tied where you cannot see them.

You begin to panic.

Wriggling around in the chair, you try to untie yourself and escape. You know that somethings wrong and you want to get out of there as fast as you can. But you cannot. No matter how hard you try or how hard you try to scream. Nothing comes out.

'Am I in shock?' you think to yourself.

The sudden moment of the light turning off seems to scare the hell out of you.

You look around eager to find what it is that is playing on the edge of your nerve strings.

The blinding light of a fresh candle lamp lit with blue flame is frightening.

But it is the thing that is holding the lamp that scares you the most.

There standing in the dark you can faintly see a woman. Her back slouched, and head tilted down but still staring at you like your invisible, but she can look right into your soul. Her clothes are ragged and covered in blood stains. In her free hand she holds a dagger coated with blood and skin.

"We've been searching for you Zoey Addison. And now we've got you tied up." The woman said in an echoing and deep voice.

The woman shoved the lamp closer to your face.

The next moment there was a crowd of people wearing ragged clothes with blood stains.

Some were children some were adults and elderly. But they were all women. They eyes were sad and dark. Heads tilted down but still staring directly through you like the other woman who was still standing in front of you holding the lamp.

All the women, even the children, were all holding a weapon of some sort covered in blood. A little girl with golden streaks in her bloody hair, was holding a baseball bat. She stepped forward and crouched over you holding up the bat and spoke, "my daddy killed me, we were playing baseball together then he beat me, now I'm dead. And I've come to do the same to him and haunt him."