Twisted Roads – Twisted Horror Stories by Matthew Tonks

Do You See?

Somewhere out there, they’re waiting, waiting for each and every one of us.

You think I’m lying?

Trust me, I’m not. I’ve seen them out there, in the shadows, waiting for you, watching. Their faces disfigured, their bodies twisted beyond anything we have ever witnessed before, or thought could be done. They are the wasted, the rabid things that haunt the outskirts of our world, and they are coming for us.

Don’t you see them?

Don’t you hear their raspy cries for air, as they try to suck in breath after breath of nothing? A dry whistling sound, like blowing over the lip of an empty bottle.

Tell me you hear it, tell me you feel it—the fear—as they only want to feast upon what we are. Don’t you hear it?

You think I’m crazy, don’t you?

You think I’ve lost my mind, but you’re wrong. I see clearly; my eyes are no longer sugar-coated like they once were, like yours are. I now see everything. I see the skies for what they really are. I see the seas of blood, red and deep. I see all and more, through the sins of time, the shedding of skin. The world I see, I see it for what it is.

Do you want to as well?

Do you want to see the beast that hides in the darkness, waiting to strike?

Do you want to be free?

Then let go, sit before me, and take all that I am inside you. Let me empty myself down into your stomach, where I will impregnate your seed with my spark. Then, as it flourishes, as it grows, you will be as I am, birthed into a new world, into a new life. One where you will see as I do, and then we will fight the beasts together, and we will win!

So, kneel, and open yourself up for me to enter. But be warned, once you have taken me inside you, there is no going back, there is no halting the change, for they will know you are one like me, and they will come for you. So choose wisely…