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Manor, short story I wrote

The cold closes in conquering all of my body. It makes me jitter and shake, but 

I dont feel cold anymore. I feel gone. My hands are floating enslaved by my minds every command. My whole body is hexed. My feet rebel and want to run away, but the mind makes them sit. Its a exhausting battle of the body and mind. One nature one nurture. The warmth of the forest makes us all sink into the snow. My body stopping its revolts. We lay in unison resting and waiting for whats to come. 

 The wind whips and whirls slapping me. The tree’s groan swaying with the wind in a tango. They clack, and snap, and twirl. The browns, greys, and whites mix together making a muddy color palate. The clouds dance away. The grey sky turns greyer. The wind delivers a poison to my body making it go mad. It jerks and shivers. A twig is digging into my neck. The mind doesn’t care and we stay. We sit letting the grass tickle my face. I can feel the heat; It’s a burning warm. The frost forming under my skin battles the heat spewing out of my body. A vulture in a tree above me glares at me. The eyes are dark and looming with hate. I dont like that. I’m not dying for it. Why is it here? Its eyes look into me, into the ground below me. I stare back but it doesn’t break contact. Does it think im already dead? The trees make a large sway and snow whacks onto my face. It slowly melts off feeling like tears, it freezes in my hair making a large ice chunk in my hair. I bet it thinks im dead.

We all make the smart decision to go back inside. The vulture follows me home observing my every move. I’m not dead. It hops through the dancing trees. It can’t be coming for me. I have done nothing wrong. Why be so nosy? The manor is within view. The light is on. The vulture follows me home. The doors open rushing me inside. My feet sink into the floor, my knees buckle, my face slams. The floor is soft like snow welcoming me into its loving arms. It rocks me and sings me to sleep. The fog melts away leaving a clearing in the water. This water envelopes me completely transferring me to a dark hole to rest. The light leaves and I’m left alone.



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