Family Secrets (770 hits)
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Submitted by Salvation Jane (View user info) at 2005-08-25 23:54:03 EDT
I had never learned the entire truth about my Aunt Sonya.
Not before she vanished. And even now most of her story remains mysterious.
Her demise had been quite a singular affair. During the total eclipse of the sun ten years ago, she had ministered a ceremony of her cult group at a deserted location in the Smoky Mountains. In the course of the ceremony, something horrid and bizarre happened; and still to this day no one really knows exactly what occurred. There were no witnesses--at least none who were able to make an account. All the members of her group were found at the location where the ritual had taken place, or more accurately their remains were found there.
According to the policemen who had collected the corpses, they had never seen such a gory massacre before; twenty three corpses - mutilated, some of them burned, some of them with bite wounds which matched no type of bite wound any known animal would cause. Whatever had happened that night, one thing was for sure, this had not been one of those mass suicides of a bunch of nutty cultists. It took a long time until all the corpses were identified, but finally they came to the conclusion that none were Sonya.
She had plainly disappeared. Dissolved like a cloud of smoke in a blast. And, by the way, Dahmer, her dog, had vanished, too.
After ten years without any further sign of life, she was officially declared dead.
I was her sole heir, and I found a lot of strange things when I examined my inheritance, amongst them a rich library of ancient books on metaphysical topics, some of them written in languages that I couldn't even identify.
Just by happenstance I found the scariest thing; when I paged through one of these old folio volumes, a thin stack of paper fell out of it. Thirty-seven sheets of ancient paper, yellowed with age. Apparently, someone had typed a story on them, using an ancient typewriter. I guess it must have been written at least half a century ago, maybe it even originated from the end of the twentieth century.
After I had read the story, I was shocked. I've always known that Aunty Sonya was a special person, but never had I imagined something like this!
I felt obliged to show this manuscript to the police, but after studying it they told me, that this case was barred by the statute of limitations; and she had been declared dead anyway. So they would not do anything about it.
She got away with it.
And if you ask me, I believe she also got away with a lot of other things... among others with this Smoky Mountain incident. I do not really believe she is dead and gone. Yet I also don't think she's still alive in a normal manner. Actually I don't want to think about her any longer... It always gives me a sleepless night when I muse about Sonya's fate and let my fantasy run free in speculations... The shadows in my house seem to come alive, and all the little noises of the night sound like creepy voices.
Anyway, this is the story of the old manuscript, told by an unknown and long dead man, who apparently had witnessed the beginning of the process my Aunt had finished ten years ago.
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Midnight
About 10 hours left. 10 hours till the postman will ring.
You've been surprisingly generous... under the circumstances. You've left me enough cigarettes and four bottles of wine to get me through this night. It's not the precious St. Emilion, of course... well, you might have thought that I don't deserve it. Not even on my last night. But I really hate to drink out of this plastic cup. Did you really think that if you gave me a glass I would break it and snuff myself with the shards? After I spent so much time working on my brilliant plan?
What will you do tomorrow morning at ten? Whatever you'll decide, I won't complain; after all it was my own fucking idea. And I've been so fucking clever... You will see how clever I've been. No, you will have already seen it when you read this.
You've also given me this stack of paper to write my last story. What did you think I'd write this night? Well, of course I'll write down our story - unfortunately you already know most of it.... Except for the meanest parts... And I don't think you will allow anyone else to read this story! Lol. Hey, you won't burn this manuscript after reading it, will you? Let this last remnant of me survive!
Why do I have to write it on this old typewriter? Why didn't you give me my laptop with the online dictionaries and spell checkers and the thesaurus? Now you have to read it in my poor English with all the mistakes; although you have to admit that I've improved a lot during the last seven month since I came over from Sweden.
Where are you now? I heard you leaving the house hours ago. You wouldn't cheat on me this special night, would you? No, not even you could be that heartless. Or could you? I've never really looked through you... you've always remained mysterious and contradictory to me. Well, I myself am not so mysterious, but I'm a bit contradictory too. Pretty contradictory, actually... Lol... you will see!
One thing is for sure. With your nitro temperament one never knows what you will do next. And that might have been the main fire for my obsession--you were the first gal I couldn't control; but now, in the end, I do. Whatever you will do tomorrow after you've opened the package; I'll win in any case. Either you'll spare my life; or it will end the way I want it to.
Shit, I must slow down on the drinking, I don't want to fall asleep. Or even worse, run short with the wine while I'm waiting for the postman to ring. And then for you...
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User Reviews
Submitted by jack11058 (user info) at 2005-08-30 12:20:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
not bad
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2005-08-28 17:27:03 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-08-26 12:06:54 EDT (#)
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the 'lol'ing put me off. we don't like that round here.
Submitted by Xcuses (user info) at 2005-08-26 11:53:35 EDT (#)
Ranking: -2
This is your brain
This is your brain on drugs-->http://www.ubersite.com/m/73942
Submitted by sideshow (user info) at 2005-08-26 11:21:19 EDT (#)
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is there more?
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-08-26 07:21:13 EDT (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by pharmgirl147 (user info) at 2005-08-26 00:47:19 (#)
Ranking: 1
I am so very confused... But I thought that I'd +1 it because what I did read was really well written... except for the LOL's... I don't think that most people would write those into a "manuscript" especially not if the person was supposed to be "Aunt Sonja" which to me sounds like she'd be an older woman and probably not likely to use the web slang LOL.
Submitted by Barnymeinhoff (user info) at 2005-08-26 05:26:23 EDT (#)
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for the dog,,,,a dachsund i think.
Submitted by Zoidberg (user info) at 2005-08-26 01:00:08 EDT (#)
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for adding a "lol"
Submitted by pharmgirl147 (user info) at 2005-08-26 00:47:19 EDT (#)
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I am so very confused... But I thought that I'd +1 it because what I did read was really well written... except for the LOL's... I don't think that most people would write those into a "manuscript" especially not if the person was supposed to be "Aunt Sonja" which to me sounds like she'd be an older woman and probably not likely to use the web slang LOL.
Submitted by ellsmall (user info) at 2005-08-26 00:07:17 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Saxon (user info) at 2005-08-26 00:05:04 EDT (#)
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See you made this hard to rate. If this is to be continued then id +1 it but if this is it then its too confusing so ill go with a "worth reading".
And by the way, please dont use that Lol thing. Leave that for text chats.
Submitted by lordofthedance (user info) at 2005-08-26 00:00:32 EDT (#)
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Wha?