(Continued from ~Part 1~, ~Part 2~, ~Part 3~ and ~Part 4~…) I find Melanie in the next room. We struggle to our feet, and head toward the exit, when we hear little Natalie’s scream for help again. I tell Melanie to go get help and go back inside to find her. It’s coming from the master … Read moreKidnapped (Part 5)
(Continued from ~Part 1~, ~Part 2~ and ~Part 3~…) The door flies open in a hurry and they barge in, masks and all. As I watch, they come and grab Melanie first, pinning her arms behind her and pushing her toward the hallway. Then I’m dragged out. I see her trying to muster the strength … Read moreKidnapped (Part 4)
(Continued from ~Part 1~ and ~Part 2~…) Two more days have passed since we’ve been in this dungeon-like room. She hasn’t become conscious still, and I am worried. Our captors have come and gone once each day, once cutting deep my unhurt palm, and the other day just making us plead stridently on the phone … Read moreKidnapped (Part 3)
(Continued from ~Part 1~…) My mind swims in memories, enshrined by the darkness. I think of the first day I’d met her and a small smile brightens my face. ———-~*~———- It was Halloween of last year. People in costumes with fake bloody faces and crooked smiles went about gaily on the sidewalks, celebrating with pomp … Read moreKidnapped…. (Part 2)
Dark clouds are rolling in from the horizon; the storm is beginning. On the roof of the church in the distance, the rusted-out wind-vane spins, hit by the winds that howl through the branches of the old trees glazed by the light of the setting sun. The curtains on the window are ragged; the sheets … Read morekidnapped … part 1