43. — your mind makes it real ( from wardcg )
148 Horror Writing Prompts (I KNOW IT’S NOT THE RIGHT MEME I APOLOGIZE) @wardcg—
The melody. It came back. It returned. Guitar riff. Drums. Everything. Back again. Crooning, loud, blasting in his ears. If he’s heard the song once, he’s heard it a million times before. All of the lyrics were memorized and perfect. Staci could do this. He could listen. He could follow orders. He could be the perfect soldier. For Jacob. For The Father. For The Project.
But...Something was wrong. Something was wrong when he opened his eyes. No sea of red. No scent of gunpowder. No screams to be heard. Just...empty. Maybe the silence was more terrifying than sound? Maybe the silence was stronger than the screams? Harder to cut through. Harder to put a dent in. The hospital, the center, it was empty. Not a hunter in sight. Not a prisoner in sight. Only Staci. Only Staci. Only Staci. Only Staci.
But he heard the floorboards creak behind him. He heard the heavy sound of boots on the ground. They stomped, the creaks got louder, the creaks began breaking. The floor was splintering. The floor would fall out beneath him. He wasn’t safe. He wasn’t alone. What was happening? What was going on? What happened? Snapping back, Staci turned on a dime and found nothing behind him.
Nothing.
And like a flash of red, there stood a monster before him. Red aura emanating off of it. Blue eyes stabbing through silence. Its skin marred and burnt and bloody. Its muscles rippling and tearing and the tendons pulling like puppet strings. Before Staci could even speak, Staci felt its giant hand snap around his throat like a snare. This wasn’t real. This wasn’t real. It couldn’t be real. There was no such thing as a monster that lived in the Veterans Center. There were no monsters in the Mountains.
And maybe if they existed, they didn’t wear their true skin to the people around them. If Staci had the honor to see them outside of a human’s appearance, he had to fight back. Throat snared, unable to breathe correctly, unable to speak, Staci had to scream.
And by god, he did. He couldn’t scream loud enough.













