User blog comment:SOMEGUY123/300 Word Long Stories/@comment-26072508-20150203203159

My heartbeat. That was all I could hear in the darkness. Of course, being only eight, you still believe in monsters under the bed, and that the bump in the night is something after your soul. But after what happened during the day, I couldn't just dismiss it. Something was after me. Of course, I never thought I'd be attacked in broad daylight like that. And at school of all places. But it still wasn't something I could overlook.

The day started like any other; I was at the back of the grassy field, hanging out with my friends when it happened. At first, I hadn't noticed the rock floating in midair. But it was unusually cold back there for suck a nice spring day, and I felt like I was being watched. I glanced over, and that's when I saw it. A rock a little bigger than my fist levitating on the other side of the fence that separated the elementary school from the backyards of the houses that were right near it. I didn't know what to make of it, and it didn't process well in my mind what I had just seen. My friends saw it too, which told me I wasn't insane, that this was really happening. All at once, the rock launched itself at the fence, sending me and my friends scattering like a small flock of birds.

We decided we wouldn't tell this to anyone. As I lay in my bed, I thought about that incident. I couldn't sleep at all that night, and eventually turned on the table lamp next to my bed. What I saw was more terrifying that the rock incident. A black figure sat on my desk. Red eyes glowing, and a mouth full of teeth smiling at me. I couldn't even scream. All I could do was hide under my blankets and use them as a shield against whatever this creature was. I heard a growl, and peeked out to see if it was still there, but it had gone.

To this day, I sleep with a crucifix above my bed. The image never left. And at three o'clock every night, I can feel something watching me. It always leaves with a growl. I think it's waiting for me...

(true story)