The Country Road

My name is Tom and I'm 32 years old, I live in a small town in Pennsylvania, where everybody knows every one else and we rely on one another for everything but mostly things are fairly quiet here, with the exception of some of our home games for the local football team.

I always hung out with the same 4 people, my sister Lynn, Robert my brother, and my cousins John and Jess, and we were always looking for adventure, for something exciting, pretty hard to do in a quiet town, but we were always up for the challenge. Every place has its myths, legends or ghost stories, ours relied heavily on the unexplained such as ghosts in the woods, phantom cars, ufo sightings, ghostly hand prints and so on, We were always trying to have some sort of experience that would give us the mystery we were looking for.

We were out one Saturday night just driving down one of the many country roads around on our way home, suddenly out of nowhere came this bright blue ball of light right past the windshield of the car, my cousin Jess slammed on the brakes and we went swerving down the road and right into a ditch, I banged my head on the window and had blood coming down the side of my face, John was knocked out from the force of the air bag on the passenger side, my brother and sister were both checking each other for wounds, they had a few cuts and bruises but were ok, Jess was the worst, she took the full force of the steering wheel before the airbag blew and was clutching her chest, everything was out of focus as I continued to look around, my head was throbbing, but regardless of our injuries we were all alive.

I look out the window and the ball of light was floating right in front of the car as if was looking in at us, maybe it was just my eyes but it seemed to shrink and then grow and then it got extremely bright, so bright I had to shield my eyes from it, it started to burn, my eyes were on fire, when I opened them again we were in a white room, a very clean, very white room, with no windows or openings of any kind, my brother and sister and cousins were still unconscious on the floor, maybe I'm dreaming, am I dreaming, I don't know if this is real, can anyone hear me?

A door appeared on the wall and opened, something is coming in, they took my cousins and my brother and sister, it has big red eyes and pale leathery red skin, its coming over to me, they are taking me out of the room, no please, get away from me! They put me on a table, it feels warm and squishy, the creature is here now standing over me, its holding some kind of device over my face and im starting to feel dizzy and sleepy, I could feel a stinging inside my brain, with the last bit of strength I have I force up from the table and the adrenaline starts to kick in, I start running away from the creature passing the same kind of rooms on both sides of me, all with a red squishy looking table something is in my head, trying to make me give up, I jeep pushing on, there is nowhere to go, I don't know what to do, I ran through another opening and find my brother and sister and cousins

oh god please let this be a dream.

everyone else is dead, they're all dead

then I smile to myself and signal to my new friends, we have more then enough food for our own adventures now as I start to bite down on the meat of my brothers arm.