Creative Writing

I wrote this for a homework assignment in 9th Grade. Enjoy!

It is a dark night. The air smells of the noxious burnt fish from dinner. A chilling breeze blows through the flap of your tent that you supposedly closed before drifting off to sleep. You can see very little except the moonlight piercing through a hole in your tent.

Still staring at the open flap, you reach back to attempt to wake your friend. You fall back at the surprise of finding nothing in the wadded lump of covers. Your friend is gone, and there is no sign of humanity outside.

You reach around under your sleeping bag for a flashlight and slowly exit your tent. You arise into the open air of the night and see nothing but the dieing coals of your fire and thick trees in every direction.

You hear a shriek! A sound like nothing of this world. The sound that awoke you from your deep slumber. As you creep through the forest toward the sound, the moonlight slowly fades and you don’t realize its absence until it is completely gone and you have lost your way.

A rustling of leaves seems to be coming from every direction. All of a sudden, you feel a small sensation, like that of a rain drop grazing your skin, on top of your head. You slowly lift your finder and dip it in the unknown substance. You bring it to your tongue and taste it. Warm. Salty. You know what it is, but you refuse to believe it.

In a hesitant manner, you raise your flashlight to peer above you. You see a silhouette, soon realizing that it is your friend, impaled on a tree branch, ten feet up. Behind you, you hear the shriek!
In what seemed like hours but was merely a few seconds, you quickly turn around and see two round objects. They are black with a silver glow. In one instant they are there, and then they disappear and return. Eyes.

Now, you awake. You are surrounded by a light. A brilliant white light, so pure that it couldn’t possibly be real. You know now, that you are free, yet the only thing you can think of, is those thick, glossy black eyes staring you in the face.

(Original Post on June 1, 2011 at: http://dft.ba/-BSMeyers49 )