Some of you may recognize the first image from a prior flash fiction piece of mine entitled “A Nightmare To Remember” . I had always intended to continue with that story and finally found a suitable image that inspired the rest of the story. This is a bit different in style to the original piece but tells the continuing story of the character’s quest for what lies below……
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed bringing it to it’s conclusion
Familiarity for a place I have never physically been before
A sense of dread combined with an eager anticipation
Things my eyes show me to be the truths of my surroundings
Become both overwhelming and soothing to my sensibilities
As my dreamscapes overseer draws me downward once again
Shadows and voices return with renewed ferocity and tangibility
Past recurring theme of being led into the intriguing unknown
Curiosity and terror battle for control as I make my way down
A subterranean seduction of my desire to know the unnamed
To finally find what has been beckoning for so long in the night
Far beyond where I am repeatedly taken from my journey so abruptly
Further below than I have ever been or may have ever hoped to be
My fervent questioning of secrets within the shadows perhaps foolish
As my thirst for awareness is once again shrouded in paralyzing fear
My delivery to the origin of these eerie steps leaves me stupefied
A subway platform of the most odd and unimaginable exists
Far below the place where my delusional odyssey began
A sinister place seemingly alive with shadows and voices
Multitudes of dark and insistent voices that I know so well
Haunting me; taunting as they deliver me to my waiting train
As I cross the threshold I am struck by the foul stench of death
Telltale signs of those that came before me are ever present
Epiphany arises as I am struck by the dire truth of my destination
There can be only one place that this voyage will come to it’s conclusion
My fascination with what waited for me below brings me to my Hellish end
Greeted by a new yet too familiar figure as it draws me ever near
I am burdened with the memories of all my human indiscretions
Branded with a number to become my new and infinite identity
My headstrong will to survive is stolen with astonishing force
As a modern day Charon removes the pennies from my eyes
JMC813 