BLIND
DATE
A Short story by TeAnne 1995 ©
(5 minute fiction.)
THE NIGHT was cold, dark and
mysterious. The rain fell in droplets amid the eerie fog which
crept slowly over the land from the turbulent ocean.
Christine huddled under the shortest
leafy tree her eyes had focused on in the darkness. Her only
light source was a gas cigarette lighter she had found in the
car, which had been abandoned for sometime in the bush. It felt
old in her trembling fingers. Her own car, broken down
approximately forty kilometers back up the road. She had planned
to hitch a ride into Geraldton. With luck on her side a car
sidled up beside her and a man opened the passenger door for her
to slip soggily into the vacant seat.
The driver was silent as she babbled on
about her car and the miserable weather. Once her eyes had
conditioned themselves to the semi- darkness and the light from
the dash board she was able to focus her gaze on the good
Samaritan behind the wheel of the slow moving vehicle.
Christine sat stunned for a full ten
seconds with mouth agape and eyes wide, for she could not believe
what she was seeing. Her charitable saviour had no eyes. He was
driving blind!!!!!!!
With a blood curdling scream she
managed to fumble with the door handle and hurl herself out onto
the road, where she tumbled, bounced and scraped herself to
safety into the overgrown bush-land beside the road.
She stumbled her way through the
soggy ground and saturated leaves to a protruding object
obstructing her path, which was the abandoned car. She opened the
door which creaked with the movement. Christine felt her way
around the interior until she found the glove compartment which
was open. Feeling gingerly with short quick taps, she touched on
the lighter, and to her surprise it worked, on the first flick.
She noticed that the car was full of cobwebs and red-back
spiders, the glow from the lighter shimmering over their
backs as she glided the light around. Her body gave an
involuntary shiver.
Protection from the rain in there was
out of the question, so she stumbled her way deeper into the
overgrown bush.
How she wished she had never agreed
to drive up from Perth alone to meet a blind date. How stupid she
felt. She could have been tucked up in bed with a good horror
story, not living in one. A thousand "what ifs" crowded
her muddled mind as she relentlessly slumped under the shrubby
tree.
Then the rain suddenly ceased and from
a near-by bush she heard an indescribable noise, nothing she
could describe. Christine's heart began
to hammer harder in her chest
where she placed her hand as if to repel it from expulsion from
her very being. Her breathing rasped in and out in quick short
bursts and her eyes felt as large as twenty cent pieces.
The rustling in the bushes and the
in-describable noise grew louder as it moved in closer to her
location where she felt like live bait! For what ever it
was, was heading in her direction fast. She had heard the car way
off in the distance, so she knew it couldn't have been Mr. No
Eyes returning.
Christine looked beyond the tall trees
and noticed that the fog and the sky was beginning to clear, if
not for the low lying fog, she would have been able to see the
low branch to the right of her head, as she dashed away from the
protecting tree. Turning suddenly, she experienced the sight
of bright little yellow stars before her eyes for twenty
seconds, until the noise brought her back to reality. Somehow, it
now sounded like distorted purring.
All of a sudden she felt a hot sensation on the nape of her neck and an eerie coldness enfolded her. The stench of the hot substance was overpowering and it sent her reeling into unconsciousness.
A slurping, sucking sensation with excruciating pain aroused her from the semi- coma she was withdrawing from. The sight of what she was confronted with ,was the horror of all horrors.!!!!
Christine, poor, poor Christine was
undoubtedly being devoured alive!!!
By nothing less than Dracular!!.... Her
once loving pet cat, whom had been missing for ten years and as
her life slowly ebbed away, she was besotted with something about
the cat's eyes.
Something................ Human?