My Dark School Of Thoughts

  Father God! Please forgive my sins! It’s so cold and black, everywhere is dark, the whole world is in complete darkness, it’s like a blanket was put over the sun or the sun is dead. I am beginning to believe that the maker has pulled the plug on the light and forever doomed the human race. It’s just so dark that a knife would slice through it clean, and silent that you could hear a pin drop, I am scared stiff, and everybody is dead, sorry! Almost everybody because there are still the occasional screams and struggles because there are creatures lurking around benefiting from this new development that has befallen mankind. The world has become one mighty soup bowl and we are the meats in it. Another scream broke the silence and I snapped off my reverie, what am I going to do? How long is this going to go on? The creatures of the dark are striking at us with reckless abandon, staying still and not uttering a word is the only way to survive now because with the slightest movement or noise you are snatched away to be devoured immediately and considering my present condition its almost an impossible task for me. No one is safe because they even attack from above for some of them can fly and when they attack from above the only thing you hear is their screeching, the flapping of their wings as they swoop down to claim their meal and the scream of the unlucky victim as he or she is torn into pieces and devoured.

   I remember my little girl and husband and I want to weep, but weep I must not if I want to survive this. The only thing my little girl did was to try and hold back a sniffle, that’s all it took and when she was snatched from above my husband made the horrible mistake of attempting to stop them which was a naturally instinctive response from a protective father and he followed suit. It was so horrible having to hear their screams for help, my little baby calling out for her daddy and mummy and my husband calling out for his wife as they were devoured right in front of me, I was struck with so much terror that I froze right there and messed up my pant, it was such a shame, I who in the past had served in the military and killed for a my country couldn’t raise a finger to help my family, all I did was stand there helpless, frozen with fear and pain wondering how such a day that started so beautifully could end up so ugly?

 It was a bright Saturday morning and I was lying down in the sitting room on the recliner like the doctor advised me to do, while my husband was in the kitchen preparing breakfast like he has always done since I became almost handicapped by my condition and our daughter was in her room playing house when I felt the sharp pain again, which I ignored because as my condition progressed it became a norm, but when the pain wouldn’t stop I shouted for my husband and he took one look at me and he called our daughter to come because he was taking me to the hospital. We had barely gotten into the car when darkness started coming, we all were surprised and puzzled at the anomaly that we all stood and watched in wonderment while others trooped out of their house to see what was going on. The darkness had barely covered the whole place when the attack began, the first ones were attacked by air and as all hell broke loose, everyone panicked  and started running about and the monsters came down in hordes. By the time we realised that they were blind and only responded to sound almost half the population had been wiped out.  

  They are every where and they are constantly feeding, I can smell their rancid breathe and I can see their fiery red un-seeing eyed everywhere. The screaming continued, I can hear flesh being stripped out, I can hear bones cracking and most terrifying, I can hear the creatures fighting amongst themselves over their feast. They have feasted to the point that the whole ground where I stood was soaked in blood, in the frenzy of their feeding chunks of fresh, bones and blood were thrown around and a good number of them hit me and I dared not clean them off for fear of attracting them. God why have you let this befall us? I ask because it so feels like he was culling the human existence, doing away with the weak to reduce our population, will I survive this? And if I survive, would I be normal again? Is it not better dying now? Would I be able to raise a gun or knife against anybody again? All these were the questions whirling in my head when I noticed something slithering up my body from my leg, it was slimy and cold, the feel of it on my body made my skin crawl, what am I going to do? Is what I asked myself as cold sweat broke out of my body, maybe if I don’t move it would leave me alone but as I found out later that wasn’t the case because as soon as it got to my neck it stopped its ascent. Then all of a sudden I felt tiny pinpricks on my body from where the thing made contact with my body, I don’t know what it was doing but all of a sudden I started feeling numb, initially I was scared but I eventually started feeling good like I was on some form of narcotic. The feeling was short lived because just when I was beginning to revel in the feeling I felt something breathing down my neck, its breath stank and it was very cold. Its like it suspected that I was there but was waiting for me to move, I was so scared stiff

that I couldn’t have been able to move if my life depended on it. Just few seconds after I noticed what was lurking behind me another surfaced in front of me, all I saw was the red fiery eyes, and one by one they all came and gathered around me like they were summoned telepathically. I am now surrounded by about a hundred pair of flaming red eyes, all of them breathing hard in anticipation, all of them waiting for me to move, what should I do? I ask again, would I ever survive? I hadn’t finished asking myself all these questions when the pain started again, this time sharper, then a kick and more pains again, my whole body was in agonizing pain but I couldn’t move because of the effect of the narcotic that the creeper must have injected into me and I couldn’t scream for fear of been eaten and when the pain became so unbearable that I was sure I was going to scream, it suddenly abated when something dropped from in between my legs. All was silent for about Two minutes and the monsters surrounding me began to turn around and find other source of feeding when a cry rent the air, it was the cry of a new born baby, my baby, our baby. And the monsters turned back in a rush at the sound and came at us.