Still Nowhere To Run ............ (816 hits)
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Submitted by Merlina (View user info) at 2006-05-16 06:30:16 EDT
The Start: http://www.ubersite.com/m/87557
Back when I first got this office, which took considerable begging, I was delighted that it had a balcony. Nothing special and you can't smoke out there... but I wanted it anyway.
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Now I can almost taste the panic I feel, as I quietly open the lock on the balcony door and creep out, taking off my navy heeled shoes as I go. I close the door behind me and duck down below the window height.
Maybe they won't think to look out here. Maybe they won't come out onto the balcony... oh god if they do.... I know they'll kill me.
I crouch down low, wrapping my arms around my legs, my face buried in my knees and rock forwards and backwards. Please don't panic, I say to myself, please........
I can hear them now in my office the other side of the wall. My heart is hammering so loudly I fleetingly think of the story of The Tell Tale Heart. Please let them go, please let them go, please let them go... it's like a permanent wallpaper going round and round in my head.
I'm too scared to cry.
After a moment I take every ounce of courage in my bones and learn forward to see if I can see what's happening. The voices are still here and I recognise Jenny's voice. My assistant. A man is with her and I can't quite see...
I crane my neck forward a little more, keeping low to the ground and I see Jenny, her normally immaculate make up smeared over her grimy face, her mussed hair making her look more vulnerable than I have ever seen her before. With her is a man I recognise as her husband. I met him at the last office Christmas party. Only the smiling handsome face is twisted, contorted into a look of pure terror that sends a chill down my spine. I duck my head away before he sees me and listen as he talks to her.
Just then I hear a loud 'crack' and from where I am crouching I see Jenny's hair as she falls on the other side of the balcony door. My heart nearly stops when I see her open, death-embraced eyes.
Before I have time to recover or even move a muscle Jenny's husband falls heavily on top of her lifeless body, making me wince, even though I know she can no longer feel pain.
I wrap my arms around my legs and let myself fall to one side, whimpering slightly, almost in the foetal position on the cold concrete of my office balcony. Five minutes pass. Ten. Then maybe an hour and I am still curled up. Have I been asleep? In shock? I have no idea.
I keep my eyes closed for a moment as I listen to hear if they've gone. The traffic on the London street below has considerably quietened and only the odd car whooshes past.
But... I can hear........ what IS that? It's faint but.... just the other side of the door but out of my sight something is there.. It............... it's almost like a chewing, sucking... disgusting eating noise.... And then I realise.
I lean my head against the cold brick wall on the outside of the building willing myself not to vomit at the thought of what or WHO is being fed upon. Bile rises to the top of my throat. I swallow it down breathing deeply, sucking huge amounts of air and look around me.
My eyes locate the edge of the balcony that I had joked to my bosses should have had a ladder leading to the street so I could escape from work.
I had no idea how much I would need it.
I inch my way over to the edge on my bottom, slowly and quietly along the concrete, blood trickling from my lip that I don't realise I'm biting. In a second I'm up, and hitching my smart navy skirt up my thighs I climb carefully over the side to the ledge below me. I feel around with my bare feet for the ledge I've often seen just below me and pray my thanks to God as I find it.
There must be a way down from here. I can hear them in the building now. Fighting over the half-eaten corpses that used to be my assistant and her young husband.
I mentally shake my head. I can't think of them now. I have to save myself.
And I know I WILL get down.
I have to get down.
I'm too scared to die.
User Reviews
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2006-05-17 09:35:50 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:23:57 (#)
Ranking: 2
BUT WHAT ARE THEY?!?!?!?!?!
Argh!
and why?
Submitted by deedee (user info) at 2006-05-17 01:14:02 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Stagger_Lee (user info) at 2006-05-17 00:00:07 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Two (very) short stories of panic and fleeing and stuff:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/86632
http://www.ubersite.com/m/87549
Submitted by Sphagnum (user info) at 2006-05-16 19:02:49 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
nice
Submitted by Average_Dan (user info) at 2006-05-16 14:03:09 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
You're such a badass!
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2006-05-16 11:41:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by MonkeyingAround (user info) at 2006-05-16 10:42:40 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:45:39 (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn you.
These are WAAAAAAAAAY too short.
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agreed with this and with cookie! Damn I'm so hungry! rawr.
Submitted by CookieLass (user info) at 2006-05-16 10:39:20 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
GAHASKJBWOEUIHYFKJSDHR!!! Woman!! This is so great, it took away my powers of speech!
Submitted by Sacrilicious (user info) at 2006-05-16 10:09:04 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Good stuff, Merlina.
The picture's wicked, too.
Submitted by Crayon (user info) at 2006-05-16 09:36:44 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Fuckin Insane!
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-05-16 09:03:29 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:28:56 (#)
Ranking: 2
hitching my smart navy skirt up my thighs "
I could almost taste your cunt.
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Apollo - you bad, bad boy.
Submitted by DrogoRoch (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:53:54 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
I thought we were promised this last Monday?
Well worth the wait all the same.
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:30:36 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Apollo just made me cringe. Damn.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:28:56 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
hitching my smart navy skirt up my thighs "
I could almost taste your cunt.
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:27:45 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:16:30 (#)
Ranking: 2
your dreamy ways are the first phase of some psychotic disorder .... ah shite cant remember anyway you may wake up one day in the next week or so and find that you've killed Paul McCartney or something.
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I'm kinda hoping it'll be Frank Skinner.
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2006-05-16 08:16:30 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
your dreamy ways are the first phase of some psychotic disorder .... ah shite cant remember anyway you may wake up one day in the next week or so and find that you've killed Paul McCartney or something.
+2 coz it costs me nothing
Submitted by Davros (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:45:39 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Damn you.
These are WAAAAAAAAAY too short.
-Dave
Submitted by sinna (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:45:17 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This, I like.
Submitted by littledan (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:27:25 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
This is going to be a fantastic series...
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:26:10 EDT (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:23:57 (#)
Ranking: 2
BUT WHAT ARE THEY?!?!?!?!?!
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You are so impatient.. :)
Submitted by Flying_buttmonkey (user info) at 2006-05-16 07:23:57 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
BUT WHAT ARE THEY?!?!?!?!?!
Argh!
Submitted by redskieslookfake (user info) at 2006-05-16 06:45:00 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Excellent
Submitted by phuzzygish (user info) at 2006-05-16 06:35:47 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
That picture is killer, too.
Submitted by hour_man (user info) at 2006-05-16 06:32:59 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
Yep yep