The breeze came quite suddenly to Elinor, she grimaced at the almost spiteful wind. She had imagined there'd be a village on the doorstep of Moorstock train station and yet the landscape appeared to be a barren, isolated Marsh. She was the only person off the train, no one else to be seen except from the station master whose eyes simply glazed over her like a zombie. It was just a break to get away from her hectic life of: sleep, work, eat, repeat. Her friend, Lizzy, had told her about the beautiful countryside retreat she had last Summer and so Elinor thought 'why not?'. After a bit of googling, she rented a small cottage with all the makings of paradise. Emerald green ivy draped over the stone walls of the building and the bedroom overlooked the rocky fields of Moorstock. Quality at a cheap price. Elinor assumed there'd be a taxi service, of sorts, to take her to the cottage. But the station was empty and so was the land. There was nothing. Luckily, Elinor had decided to buy a map of Moorstock on the train. If she followed the path, she would arrive at her cottage within an hour. However, Elinor’s optimism was ultimately destroyed by the sudden change of weather. The sky shook, rain poured, thunder bellowed and gusts of wind became daggers. The marshy path she had taken started to resemble a small lake, but Elinor was nothing if not stubborn. The weather had disrupted her vision so much, that she started to walk into rocks and fences. After some time of walking, Elinor greeted another obstruction. But this time it wasn't a rock or wodden fence, or at least Elinor didn't think it was. The figure towered over her, a dark shadow which casted an uneasy atmosphere. It did not move, just stood there motinonlessly. And then, something changed. The figure did start to move. What could had been a head seemed to tilt at a strange angle. There was then a strange noise coming from the figure. Elinor strained her ear to listen. And then, nothing. Elinor could not hear anything, no rain, no wind, nothing. Her vision was intact, unfortunately. Because the moment she looked up, she was face to face with it. The figure was crouching down and was level with Elinor’s face. Its eyes were black, empty voids. Its skin, grey and mangled at every joint. It had no mouth and so it used its dirty, sharp nails to rip her flesh off. Elinor did make it to the cottage. Her organs had been found in the cupboards, her head in the fridge. After the years of investigation, the case was left unsolved. No one would dare enter Moorstock Marsh alone, not even to make it to paradise. ~sorry it's not really scary ?
Tomorrow is a super big day for me. I'm finally going to get my dream job. Yup, you heard me right my dream job. Do you know what is my dream job? It is well..... Uhm you'll know later... I couldn't sleep because I was anxious about tomorrow so I decided to watch a movie in bed. I took my tablet and search Netflix. After sometime I decided to watch Terminator. While I was into the movie, suddenly got hungry, so I got up to make some popcorn. When i got back into my bed and my pet pug was curling at the bottom of my bed. He saw me with the popcorn and woke up from his nap. He loves eating them but I can't give him too much. Sometime later, I felt tired and my eyes started to close...... I woke up with some screaming.... "Get up, get up, something is happening!!"... I got up from my bed and found my mum and dad. Dad was saving mum from flying bugs that started to swarm into my apartment.... Mum saw me come out from my room and asked me to run but I didn't. I tried to swap away the bugs with my bunny slippers that was coming at me while trying to get my parents. The bugs got angrier and it seems they were transforming.... They started glowing and growing bigger with a fierce attitude. The bugs now had some type of slime covering them. Everything the bugs touched was melted. I almost reached my mum and dad while fighting off the bugs. My dad got some burns not dodging the bugs fast enough and while trying to protect my mom. We moved into the next room and locked the door. We threw whatever we could find to close the door but it seems to be melting too fast. Some bug had gotten thru the door and was flying towards my legs. I couldn't dodge it and was caught..... My legs started to burn and I scream in pain tremendously. The slime started to move up my legs. The pain became worst and worst with every move. My dad took a knife from his back pocket and well cut of my legs in an instant because he didn't want the slime to spread to my other parts. I scream and screamed and then...... When I open my eyes... My dad and mom.... Had become robots.... My dad had become Arnold Schwarzenegger and I was like whoaaaaahhh... Next thing I saw was a bright light and then I woke up in looking at the ceiling of my room. I was panting and panting for breath. Once, I had calm down I saw that my pug had made a mess of the popcorn I didn't finish all over my legs and had added a ton of his drool all over my legs. I cleaned up after the mess my pug made and looked at the time. I was running late. I quickly took a shower and change my clothes. I took a piece of bread from my table and poured some dog food for my pug before leaving my apartment. I reached my new office in time after taking the bus and running to the right building. I was directed to meet my manager by the reception and was waiting in his office. When he open the door and came in, it gave me a scare, he looked like Arnold Schwarzengger too. While he was walking, he asked me a question, " How good are you at catching bugs??".... I'm like this must be a dream and I need to get out of it. I'm stuck in this dream with bugs which I hate the most..... Arghhhhhh..... I hit my head on a wall while I was running out, and It woke me up from my dream... I found my boss was standing beside me with his weekly bug magazine rolled up in his hand. He hit me a few times to wake me up completely and told me... You're not paid to sleep and dream... You're supposed to be working... You're fired.... And well let me tell you my dream job now: It is daydreaming and doing nothing.... Now I know why I'll be getting my wish and my dream job....
The winner is Maddi_Matsu! I think you all did a great job, so I will gift everyone who submitted something small but she gets the grand prize, which includes my derpy dog appreciting her.
Holy shít I won something!!! Thanks for making this competition, and thank your dog for the appreciation photo!!