Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-38024081-20191215194806

''The following passage was written down from a recording. Several times, sobbing, screaming and unintelligible speech was heard, which will be indicated in bold. Swearing has also been cut out.''

If you're hearing this, you're lucky to be alive. This area is infested with those (things). They have unparralelled senses, can smell any hint of blood from miles off. They swim fast as hell, can outrun almost anything on land. That's how they got sobbing. That's how they got him. Undecipherable speech.

You gotta leave here. I don't know what they are, but they're impossible to kill. I took the head off one and it kept going, as if it weren't bothered. I don't know how I'm still alive, how they haven't found me yet. I'm on my own. My gun's out of ammo, my pocket knife is pathetic compared to them. I haven't got a phone, I just found this tape recorder in this hut. I'm alone and as good as dead.

These things, they have been around for years it seems. This area, probably destroyed by now, was a village. Now and again, people would wander into the woods and never be found again. They must have been killed by those creatures. They have what looks like thin skin, but its tough as hell. They look almost human, but have iron claws and teeth. They walk around like dogs and have gills on their necks. If you see one, you're as good as dead. Screaming.

People are still fighting out there. Sobbing. Its useless, but they insist on going down fighting. People are being eaten alive, and those things just keep on killing. Smashing and banging Unintelligible speech. They've found me!! They've found where I've been hiding!!! Don't engage them, find a way to destroy them, they could destroy the human race!!!! Growing and sobbing.

''Dried blood was found near the tape. No remains were found of the man recording the tape. However, a few fingers of what must have been the creature attacking him were found. They never got to a Pathology Lab, as they crumbled the second they were moved. People can only speculate at what killed off the entire residence of Arches, a small village off the coast of California. As far as the authorities know, no one survived.'' 