AW October Blog Chain: Otherworldly

This month’s prompt: Otherworldly

Ghouls, ghost and things that go bump in the night. Old Hallows Eve, Dia de los Muertos and Halloween. October is the month where the veil between our world and the Other thins. So this month is about those things beyond our world, be they scary, funny or anything in between. Write wherever the prompt inspires you, fiction or non-fiction, prose or poetry. Do try and keep things at a PG-13 level, though.  Each post should be less than 1000 words if possible. 

In honor of Halloween and to get my creative juices flowing for NaNoWritMo, which starts in a few weeks, I decided to do a flash fiction piece for the prompt.  Please keep in mind that it hasn’t be professionally edited and I apologize if there are any stupid grammatical mistakes.  

It’s dark…the way I like it.  You have been warned.

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Moisture by Lizzy Lessard

A moist breath wets the heavy lids of my eyes.  The room is dark, so dark that is only when a silver gleam catches my attention that I know my eyes have opened at all.  Oblong metal with writing embossed – a dog tag.  As my eyes focus, I notice its twin brother hanging an inch beneath from another ball chain.  My fingers itch for confirmation that the sight is real and I tell them to capture the dog tags from around his neck.  But, a tight rope or cloth halts their path only inches later.  I jerk my body back and forth, suddenly aware of the binds locking my limbs in place.

I cry out – a hand rushes to my lips.

The thumb, calloused and thick, catches my the underside of my chin and digs into my throat.  His hand tastes like soil and one finger slides between my teeth.

I suppress the urge to bite, aware that at anytime his thumb might press further into my windpipe and suffocate me.  My compliance must please him, as his hand drops from my lips moments later.  The fingertips, as reluctant to depart as lovers in an airport, hover over my lips.  It tingles, stirring the wrong emotions from my body.

He is in front of me no longer; the dog tags have disappeared.  My cheeks flush with heat.  I’m relieved that he cannot see my desires through the darkness.  But neither can I see him.  I feel my eyes open and close as my lashes tickle my skin with each blink.

A pinch in my neck makes me gasp.  It’s like a hundred mosquitoes drill into my skin on a brutal quest to strike blood.  My hands twitch, eager to smack the life from the bloodsuckers.  I bend my head down to the left and smack into something hard and hairy.  I hear a groan; his head is against my neck!  The pinching stops as his head moves away.  A wetness slithers into the folds of skin around my neck and down between my breasts.  I fear that it’s perspiration, but the smell is sweeter and my skin strangely cool.

A tickle in my throat causes me to cough.   It feels like a layer of dust has settled in my windpipe and I lick my cracked lips as I imagine a clear glass of liquid washing away the debris and quenching my thirst.

“Thirsty?”

The question erupts goose-bumps on my skin from head to toe in a domino fashion.  A mind reader?  The thought disturbs me, but the only alternative is that he sees me.  I think I much rather the mind invasion than for his vision to be like an owl’s.   I haven’t felt an inch of cloth rub against my skin since waking – minus what binds my hands and feet.

A drop of liquid hits my lips and I extend my tongue.  All care vanishes while I focus on this gift.  The liquid is tangy and foreign but my body quivers in excitement like it’s Happy Hour.  I feel something slimy touch my gums and bile threatens to up heave what little my stomach contains.  I move my tongue to discover what this invader is and I strike a tooth.  It is pointed but I deduce from its normal neighbors that it certainly is a tooth.  And that slimy thick object next to it must be a tongue.

I twist away in disgust.  I spit out every drop he has planted in my mouth.  Disgust fuels my courage and a dumb question slips out my lips.  “Who are you?”  Not a ‘who’ though.  I remember the strange tooth and the stinging on my neck.  The way he slips in and out of the darkness without a sound.  “What are you?”

“Master,” answers the man…the creature.  “Call me master.”

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Please check out the other blogs participating:

• Ralph Pines: http://ralfast.wordpress.com (post link here)
• randi.lee: http://emotionalnovel.blogspot.com (post link here)
• Aranenvo: http://www.simonpclark.com (post link here)
• pyrosama: http://matrix-hole.blogspot.com (post link here)
• hilaryjacques: http://hillaryjacques.blogspot.com (post link here)
• meowzbark: https://erlessard.wordpress.com (post link here)
• slcboston: http://fleasof1000camels.blogspot.com (post link here)
• areteus: http://lurkingmusings.wordpress.com (post link here)
• dolores haze: http://dianedooley.wordpress.com (post link here)
• SuzanneSeese: http://viewofsue.blogspot.com (post link here)
• Orion mk3: http://nonexistentbooks.wordpress.com (post link here)
• Linda Adams: http://garridon.wordpress.com (post link here)
• Alynza: http://www.alynzasmith.blogspot.com (post link here)
• BBBurke: http://awritersprogression.blogspot.com (post link here)
• wonderactivist: http://luciesmoker.wordpress.com (post link here)
• SRHowen: http://srhowen1.blogspot.com (post link here)
• Lady Cat: http://carolsrandomness.blogspot.ca (post link here)
• xcomplex: http://arielemerald.blogspot.com (post link here)
• debranneelliot: http://www.debragrayelliott.blogspot.com (post link here)

Bumped:

• bearilou: http://theglassopossum.wordpress.com (post link here)
• bmadsen: http://hospitaloflife.wordpress.com (post link here)
• CJMichaels: http://christinajmichaels.blogspot.com (post link here)
• Damian Rucci: http://thegraypen.wordpress.com (post link here)

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