Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25313274-20140817005212

I just wanna let you guys know that this is my first pasta and I am still continuing to work on it. If you have any advice, I would be glad to hear it.

Something that me and my buddies like to do sometimes is to drive around the neighborhood and see if there is anything lying around that we can pick up for free. One night we were coming home from a movie, and I spotted something by a dirt trail. "Hey, what's that?" I said. We pulled over, and it was an old TV with a FREE sign on it. We walked over to it, and there was a note taped on it. I opened it, and it looked like it was written in a hurry. The Sharpie it was written in was bleeding through the paper. The note read:

To whoever reads this letter,

Congratulations to whoever finds this FREE TV! I am moving out of my house into a much smaller house, so I have to get rid of a bunch of stuff in my house. This TV works fine, but I recommend that whoever finds this should replace the antenna.

Bye!

We pulled it out of the trash can it was in and put it in the trunk of our car. Before we left, I looked in the windows of the house that the TV came from, and I thought that I could make out what looked like an old man grinning through the window.

They dropped me off at the dirt road leading up to my house. It was only a few minutes walk to my house through the forest surrounding my house. While I was walking through it, I thought I heard whispering coming from the forest, but I just shook it off and thought it was my imagination.

I got in my house and set up the TV. I set the antenna on top and remembered the note that was with the TV when we found it. I decided to try the TV out with old antenna first to see what was wrong with it. I turned on the TV and checked to see what channels there were. There was a FOX on channel 2, an NBC on channel 5, an HBO on 9, an ESPN on 13, and a Nick on 17. All of the other channels were static. I turned it to FOX, and the TV reception was actually pretty good! I kept flipping through channels to see how far they went to, and they stopped at 25. So I stayed on FIX for about thirty minutes, until I accidentally dropped the remote on the floor. My dog stepped on it, and his foot typed in 26. To my surprise, it took me to a channel! The channel was called ASK, and it was just static with faint sounds in the background. The sounds sounded like whispering, strangely the type of whispering I heard in the forest on the way home. The static stayed that way for 2 minutes, until the screen cut to black. There was an ear-splitting scream that almost seemed to blow up my speakers which came after. The scream sounded so realistic, like an actual woman screaming! The screen then showed a video of a man running through a forest. It looked like it was being filmed on a camcorder. The time stamp on the bottom was blurred out, and I could not read what it said. The only thing I could read was the actual time on the time stamp. It read 12:02 AM. I quickly changed channels to HBO. Whenever I did, the words in the top right corner that originally said ASK said WHY. I thought that was very weird, but since I was already freaked out a bunch, it thought it would be better to ignore it. About 30 minutes later, I looked at my watch. It said 12 AM. I remembered the time stamp on the video on channel 26 which said 12:02 AM. I thought to myself, "Maybe that means something..." I at first did not want to go back to that channel, but something pushed me. I pressed 2-6 on the remote, and it took me to channel 26. The words in the too right corner this time said AM-I. The channel was static for 1 minute until the time on my watch changed to 12:02 AM. At that split second, my power went out. When it came back on, the TV came on too. It was on channel 26, and the words in the top right corner this time said HERE..... The TV showed the same man as last time running through the forest, except this time, you could see a house in the distance. It didn't take me that long to notice that that house on the TV was my house. I noticed that this time, the time stamp on the video was actually readable, and it said 4/21/2014 12:09 AM. I realized that that was only 7 minutes from now! The man on the video ran into my garage, and cut the power in my fusebox. He ran inside of the house. It showed me, watching FOX on the TV. He pulled out a knife, and the screen cut to black. All you could hear after that was screaming. Except..... that screaming.... sounded like me. The screen cut to black. I screamed in horror. I looked at my watch. It said 12:06 AM. I ran over to the TV, grabbed the antenna, and snapped it in half. I sat down and sighed. And then I realized something. The channel name in the top right of the screen. ASK. WHY. AM-I. HERE. Ask why am I here. I hesitantly yelled, "Why are you here?" No reply. I soon got a text on my phone from someone named 26. The text said, "To have fun." I texted back, "Who are you?" I then heard a dark voice behind me that said, "I'm me." I then passed out.

I woke up with a terrible pain in my leg. I looked down, and there was a stab wound. I looked at my watch. It was 1 PM. I got my phone and called 911.

911: "911, what's your emergency?"

Me: "I just woke up with a stab wound in my left leg."

911: "Do you know how it got there?"

Me: "No."

911: "What is your address?"

Me: " - ---, Chaska, MN"

911: "We'll be right over."

I got back from the hospital a week later with a seriously injured leg, but they told me it would heal after surgery. The TV was no where to be found. I couldn't even find the snapped remains of the antenna. A couple days later, I got a letter from one of my friends. It read,

Dear ,

Thank you for the new TV! It works fine! But what did you mean by "replace the antenna"?

Sincerely yours,  