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The Dark Forest

"Oh Child! oh sweet, sweet child- why dearest do you roam, in midst of our wild? For these forrests are no safe little enclosed shacks, but filled with monstrous beasts, all formed in family packs- ready to hunt the weak and the young to feast. There are beasts! There are Beasts! And these beasts have glowing eyes, often yellow in the shadows, often breathing with deepening sighs of hunger with their cheshire smiles. Some are intelligent- trickery is their game- they don't have be quick or strong in order to gain their claim. Some are small- they hide so well! Like insects that can crawl in your ear and be the sounds of a ringing bell, or clicking clock, a costant noise with notes at its highes stock amount. And they'll crawl through your brains and eat your organ then leave again to waste your corpse for the pouring rain. And in these wild forrests will enchant and flourish loveliness that will lure you to eat their freshest berries you'll ever see! So red, and juicy that god did know would grew- would put a spell against your lustful lip with a poisoned mark and make you ill. After three days of these red berries, you will vomit out your liver and cover all acres of leaves with dew. You shall cry- you would die- in the middle of our fields. SO with such a curiousity, is it worth to travel in, on or through? The entrance is already dark, and all you can do is assume.." thought this child, facing the dark forest path- both eager to explore and fearing to endure such experience...

Copyright © | Year Posted 2009




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Date: 3/30/2009 1:52:00 PM
Intense. Thanks. Ever read a children's book called Wolves in the walls? Reminded me a little of that. Also Little Red Riding hood came to mind.
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