Ezichi Faithful
@ezichifaithful
1 year ago
#NircleStories
A lonly Tuesday night
A dead melancholy ambience greets all coming through
:Irky walls
I'm walking down the patched street lanes
Dense of quiet
An open field
"The Grand NOIR"
Pulled out the polymer card I was given
That you could almost feel,taste,the eyes of the dwellers of the in between crawling on your skin from amidst the trees
A few steps further, and I reach into my coat pocket
Snivelling from right to left
l reckoned turning back whence I came
Where the sky is bereft if twinkles
And the pitch dark nothingness in the other part
I couldn't but notice the cluster of stars in one part of the sky
The road bent left
And even in such darkness
The bushes were scanty,like they peeped through the ground to stare
The trees were detached from one another
You could tell,by their posture, they were dead
And the ground beneath my feet began creaking
A few more steps I walked further
And a frog croaked
A cricket chirped
An owl hooted
Further, I went, and the creak augumented
My heart paced
Lost in the wonder of this lethargic world, I had stepped on an old bridge
My skin folded
Chills went up my brain, and my hands shook vehemently
The air lost its sentience
l couldn't move my own feet
And my heart sunk
The bushes rattled
Like a pillow sucked of air
"This must be the end, I thought to myself,'
The world I saw quickly and rapidly sprung upwards
And the earth made a sound as though it was folding
And smooched my cheeks
Then it all came to a halt
As the water quickly penetrated my trousers
l panted,I fell into the creek
No wonder the croak
And the crickets
The racketeering in the bushes
But then, in the midst of this wafer-thin resurrection, my mind came alive abruptly, and my heart sunk again,now further than it had when my shoes pinched that old bridge
The creaking was from the old bridge
What must have done that
A bloodhound?
A bear?
A witch?
An old hag?
My pupils dilated, and my hair stood shook
It was my aged uncle
With a flashlight and a cane
He laughed in a melancholic manner
"Give me your hand.Forgot to fix that bridge 30 years ago.'
"Oh, I forgot,I'm blind,"and he laughed even more,wilder this time,louder so much the swamp
water was warm.
Clearly, I have an experience, I beg utterly not to relive.
The end,now excuse me. I've got to catch a smoke.