A Nightmare
Finishing his heavy job,Kyle slowly walked back to his little apartment on the other side of town.He could feel darkness enveloping the town as he carried out the chore of trudging his suitcase to the other side of town with weariness in his bones. Kyle is a humble man,he does not have dreams,all he asks for is food on the table and hospital fees for his sick mother. By the time he almost reached his home,it was midnight and the only soul on the lonely streets was him.
At home,he turned on his favourite jazz music,tucked into bed and peered out of his bedside french window into the unblinking stars . Suddenly,he noticed a fluid-like saucer floating down gently,it looked like a giant air jellyfish. He was filled with amazement and wonder as his jazz music was covered by the sepuchral but glorious music made by it. Bewildered by the strange sight,he found it hard to believe this was happening. As the saucer got closer,he noticed little beings in it.
The saucer suddenly changed shape and tentacles started sprouting out of it,Kyle was expecting it to attack the buildings in the town but it actually rested its tentacle on the buildings as foundation like building a new giant alien building. Beads of perspiration formed on Kyle's forehead and his hands became clammy as the saucer came closer.His eyes widened and jaws drop as he saw one tentacle approaching the direction of his apartment,he wanted to run but was paralyzed with fear witnessing the tentacle coming so close.Next thing he knew,everything went black.
Kyle woke up lying on a grass slope,confused and in a blur.He looked a distance forward and noticed a majestic scene of humans fighting with strange beings,a beautiful music played in his head and he admired the gorgeous flames which fluttered in the wind and the people fighting for their lives."Nice but scary dream.."Kyle whispered to himself as he admired the beings hoist a funny flag high up which made him totally mesmerized.
"BANG!",Kyle heard a gunshot and saw his chest bleeding."I feel pain...you are not supposed to feel pain in dreams.....are you?".The beautiful music abruptly stopped playing in his head."AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!"kyle made a howl of anguish that echoed faraway.He adjusted his feelings from shock into sorrow as he broke out into loud,uncontrollable sobs which escalated into wails as he fished out the photo of his mother. Kyle cried to his death,grabbing the photo of his mother,not expecting a sweet dream to turn into a living nightmare.
-Shannon Teoh,copyright 2010,the copyright is shown below.
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