Find Me!
This is a story I wrote a while ago. I went out with the family on a trip to the woods and thought of the idea.
It was a strange kind of day. The sun was shining, but it was still cold around little dean forest, that we, (meaning mom, dad, 3 little brothers and I) had traveled to, from our home in Gloucester. You know, a family day out, as it was the Easter holidays and we were all off work and school (this was a rare opportunity). The weather just seemed to be different, well unique in its own way.
The path swerved up at an angle turning and twisting enough to give you backache before even reaching the top, where there was a huge chair built for a fairy-tail giant, I guess?! It was bright, until you started to walk down hill back towards the parking lot. (It seemed so far away like a different world compared to all the buzzing noise of happy children playing) I wanted to explore more so the two eldest of my brothers and I decided to leave the safety of the man-made path and walk through the old trees.
The trees that I passed looked like a cupped hand reminding me of waiting for my mom to dish out the sweets on the journey; I'd always loved the smell of haribos! As I looked up the sun was trying hard to break through the bare skinny trees that were patchy and spotty this time of year just like a Dalmatian, and the same color too!
I wandered around feeling the rough texture of all the plants with my hot sweaty fingers it gave me the feeling like I was an intruder, not supposed to be there. Because I was in my daydream mode I tripped on a stump sending me flying down on to a crumpled bed of brown, red and yellow dried-out crisp leaves my brothers asked if I were okay I think, but most of it was a blur of rumbling and noise, like when my dad sings to his old music and forgets the words. I screamed 'help' but I don't think anyone heard me. I felt the soft stringy blades touch my flushed hot cheeks. I felt a hot shivering ray of light curl over my frightened body I tried to get up and move my arms and legs but I couldn't I was sure that no-one was holding them down. What was happening to me?
Yes, that was it, the trees, I was feeling and touching them I did feel like an intruder, maybe that was a sign I shouldn't have left the path. 'Sorry, I'm so sorry please stop'. There was no reply and it never stopped.
It was too late. I was being sucked down into the unknown undergrowth of the forest.
A dark pit with a small lamp that was dimmer than the sun at sunset and a shabby rug, a stick bed with a rag draped over, a pair of oddly folded clothes torn and ripped; did they belong to someone once before or were they just there? So was there someone living hear some creature or was it a pit for prisoners? Was I that prisoner or that guest? I just wanted to go home!! "Mom... dad... anyone?"
'Well I'm here aren't I dear' said this soft but crackled voice. I screamed!
'Oh now, now sweet-sugar-muffing do not be scared I am only hear to teach you a little, well, lesson' the voice said.
"What, who and were are you?" I said shivering.
"Well, well don't we want to know a lot." "Flash" out popped this crooked odd shaped shadow.
A bent nose, shaggy hair, misty eye with torn clothes. But what was it?
'Oooooh I could just be you imagination or I could be a tree creacher maybe. Well you're just have to come and see'
"See what. You!"
"Uh yes!"
"Step forward my sugar-droplet."
I took 5 brave small steps-more like shuffles forward.
Then out came this skinny bone-y hand and pushed me down so far my neck snapped and I was a nothing but a hunched lump on the floor!
A sprinkle of dusty stuff rolled around and a huge clump sat on my nose. I made a wish!
"Please, please, please."
"I wish, I wish, I wish..."
"You wish what to be GONE!... well I can do just that!'
''Yes, send me away, I won't bother you again."
"No you won't!"
And with that I was hulled down through the stone floor and crushed into a hole in a box and hear I am!
Ready and waiting for you to receive this message I would send it in a bottle but there is no water.
It is yuck down here so please come quickly.
There is a tube I have created to our house but I can not fit through there- I will soon though because so hungry and thirsty wasting away.
And that's how I ended up here.
Love Koren.
The path swerved up at an angle turning and twisting enough to give you backache before even reaching the top, where there was a huge chair built for a fairy-tail giant, I guess?! It was bright, until you started to walk down hill back towards the parking lot. (It seemed so far away like a different world compared to all the buzzing noise of happy children playing) I wanted to explore more so the two eldest of my brothers and I decided to leave the safety of the man-made path and walk through the old trees.
The trees that I passed looked like a cupped hand reminding me of waiting for my mom to dish out the sweets on the journey; I'd always loved the smell of haribos! As I looked up the sun was trying hard to break through the bare skinny trees that were patchy and spotty this time of year just like a Dalmatian, and the same color too!
I wandered around feeling the rough texture of all the plants with my hot sweaty fingers it gave me the feeling like I was an intruder, not supposed to be there. Because I was in my daydream mode I tripped on a stump sending me flying down on to a crumpled bed of brown, red and yellow dried-out crisp leaves my brothers asked if I were okay I think, but most of it was a blur of rumbling and noise, like when my dad sings to his old music and forgets the words. I screamed 'help' but I don't think anyone heard me. I felt the soft stringy blades touch my flushed hot cheeks. I felt a hot shivering ray of light curl over my frightened body I tried to get up and move my arms and legs but I couldn't I was sure that no-one was holding them down. What was happening to me?
Yes, that was it, the trees, I was feeling and touching them I did feel like an intruder, maybe that was a sign I shouldn't have left the path. 'Sorry, I'm so sorry please stop'. There was no reply and it never stopped.
It was too late. I was being sucked down into the unknown undergrowth of the forest.
A dark pit with a small lamp that was dimmer than the sun at sunset and a shabby rug, a stick bed with a rag draped over, a pair of oddly folded clothes torn and ripped; did they belong to someone once before or were they just there? So was there someone living hear some creature or was it a pit for prisoners? Was I that prisoner or that guest? I just wanted to go home!! "Mom... dad... anyone?"
'Well I'm here aren't I dear' said this soft but crackled voice. I screamed!
'Oh now, now sweet-sugar-muffing do not be scared I am only hear to teach you a little, well, lesson' the voice said.
"What, who and were are you?" I said shivering.
"Well, well don't we want to know a lot." "Flash" out popped this crooked odd shaped shadow.
A bent nose, shaggy hair, misty eye with torn clothes. But what was it?
'Oooooh I could just be you imagination or I could be a tree creacher maybe. Well you're just have to come and see'
"See what. You!"
"Uh yes!"
"Step forward my sugar-droplet."
I took 5 brave small steps-more like shuffles forward.
Then out came this skinny bone-y hand and pushed me down so far my neck snapped and I was a nothing but a hunched lump on the floor!
A sprinkle of dusty stuff rolled around and a huge clump sat on my nose. I made a wish!
"Please, please, please."
"I wish, I wish, I wish..."
"You wish what to be GONE!... well I can do just that!'
''Yes, send me away, I won't bother you again."
"No you won't!"
And with that I was hulled down through the stone floor and crushed into a hole in a box and hear I am!
Ready and waiting for you to receive this message I would send it in a bottle but there is no water.
It is yuck down here so please come quickly.
There is a tube I have created to our house but I can not fit through there- I will soon though because so hungry and thirsty wasting away.
And that's how I ended up here.
Love Koren.
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