Fear (Flash Challenge)

Hiya, it’s Jay; welcome to my submission for the Flash Challenge #Leaderreview

Fear

I could taste it

Like bitter rocks of salt on my dry, swollen tongue

I could smell it dripping from my pores, coating my paper white skin in its slick oil

The stench sour, rotten, terrifying

I could hear it’s voice, rasping, croaking in my ear

”It’s going to go off….”

”It’s going to go off…”

”They’re all going to die…”

”And it will be your fault….”

”All your fault…”

I could feel it’s ice cold, twig like feelers

wrap their frighteningly vicious grip around my neck

Choking me without mercy.

A single thought fought it’s way to my scarily numb brain

A mind lost in the black terror

”You’re there. Let it go…”

I hadn’t realised my eyes had been closed

I hadn’t realised they were dripping pain

I hadn’t realised I was alive

Until I opened my eyes

Fear

It gripped my very soul as I stared into the abyss

Watching it stare back

And let it go

Watching it soar toward fear

My fear

It shattered my fear like glass

But it wasn’t over yet

The shards still fell

Dangerous

Sharp

Terrifying

And with them

So did I

Like lead I dropped

My body a stone

Being tossed by giant hands

Into a river of inky black terror

I fall

And I fall

And I fall

Consumed wholly

Trapped in the gaping maw of some

Indescribable primal monster

Fear

I’m so tired

Just

Just let me rest

And I give myself to the darkness once more

It’s peaceful here

Except for one thing

Fear

Is always hiding

Fear

Is always lurking

Fear

Is everywhere

Fear

Has consumed me

Fear

Has beat m-

I wake

To the sounds of roaring

Of pain

And oddly

Of triumph

And now my fear

Is gone

It drowned

It died

It lost

My fear is no more

And now I’m hungry

I kinda want

Shawarma