Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35165605-20180331190959

The Mirror Man

(Note: the following story is not true and should not be taken seriously, any similarities to other works are purely coincidental, I do not mean to offend anyone and all biases and stereotypes are used for the purpose of storytelling, with all this in mind please enjoy).

I never liked mirrors, I guess you can thank my mom for that but after what happened last Saturday I hate them even more. My name is Jake Glecker and my mother is a con artist, or at least I think she is a con artist she keeps calling it her “art”. She goes from town to town doing her show and telling everyone about the Mirrior World. Her show consists of some weird fake rituals and showing everyone the supposed “Mirror Man”, and then she tells everyone this bonkers fairytale about how the Mirror World works. Basically the Mirror World is like our world but everything will look the same, but everything will also be different which makes no sense. According to my mom if you break a mirror while the Mirror Man is present he will bring you to the Mirror World to teach you a lesson. Anyway I should stop talking about my mother's bonkers show and get to the story.

We had just moved here so I needed to get a job to make some money and unfortunately the only place that would take a teen who worked at a Burger King for half a year was a knick knack shop. They sold all sorts of old junk like antique clocks, fancy rugs, dusty furniture, old board games, and of course mirrors. My job was to stop by every Saturday and clean the mirrors to make them look shiny. The shops owner was Mr. Shirley and he was very strict when it came to the mirrors. He told me to never ever break one and I guess I could see where he was coming from because if I had ten thousand dollars worth of glass I would want it in one piece too. Now back to what happened last Saturday.

I was about to leave when Mr. Shirley said he had to run a quick errand and told me to watch the shop for a while. Hoping to get some extra pay I agreed and just like that he was out the door. It was a bit late but I was sure he would not take very long. I was cleaning one of the mirrors when I noticed that someone was standing behind me, I turned around to greet him but no one was there. I looked at the mirror and sure enough I could see him standing behind me but he was not there when I looked in his direction. I assumed that this guy saw my mom's show and was playing some sort of prank on me so I shouted that if he would not buy something then I would have to ask him to leave. In my rage I broke the mirror and after Hearing the distinct crash of the glass I whipped around only to topple another mirror which knocked over all the other ones in a sort of domino affect. All of a sudden I could feel a hand on my shoulder and then a voice from behind me said, “big mistake”. I blacked out.

I woke up with my head spinning when the phone rang I picked it up and the man on the other side said, “welcome to the Mirror World”. I hung up on him and tried to remember what had happened. Then it all came flooding back to me and I started to look around hoping the mirrors were okay and to my surprise all of them were fine. I then concluded that I must have fallen asleep and had a nightmare. Then I remembered what the man on the phone said and started to worry a bit. It may have been a prank but I check for the signs my mother had told me about just to be sure. She said that certain objects would be in different places so I started to look around and noticed that the layout of the shop had slightly changed. She had also said that any time keeping devices and navigational tools would not work in the Mirror World and sure enough all the clocks and my watch would not move no matter what I tried. She also said that if you tried to call anyone you would be greeted by silence followed by laughing before the other side hung up, I tried calling my mom and I was only greeted with laughing. She had also told me that you can not break any mirrors in the Mirror World and sure enough none of the mirrors would break. Then finally if you went too far from where you entered the Mirror World you would come across a thick fog before seeing the shadow of a man followed by laughing and then you would black out and wake up where you started, needless to say this was true. There was no doubt in my mind that I was trapped in the Mirror World.

I have been trapped here for a while now and since none of the clocks will work I have no idea how long I have been here. I am starting to fear I will die here if death is even possible in the Mirror World. I have to say I am really hating that mirror right now. I tried begging in front of the mirrors to see if the Mirror Man would hear me but nothing happened. I tried shouting calling 911 and walking in different directions but nothing is working. Tomorrow I am going to commit suicide and if it works then this story will be the last document of my existence. To anyone who finds this I wish you good luck.

The End. 