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- Authors: Jay Bell
- Language: English
- Genre: Psychic Thrillers
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I want to escape. From the situation I’m in, from the stress and the
monotony of each day, sometimes even from my own skin. I want to get
away from it all. Especially now. The school hallways are crowded and
loud, my fellow students buzzing with an excitement I don’t share. The end
of the day seems to set them free, like they can finally resume their carefree
lives. I understand their enthusiasm for wanting to leave this place, but I
wish I had more to look forward to than microwaved pizza bites. Even
though they are deliciously cheesy.
I look up from my feet, assessing how much farther I need to walk,
and think back to a conversation I had with my grandfather before he died.
As a devoutly religious man, he often tried to convince others of his beliefs.
He must have felt that Heaven was the ultimate selling point because that’s
what he focused on most, like a travel agent desperate to earn commission.
“Just wait until you see the pearly gates upon your arrival. They’re
magnificent! Beyond them, the streets are filled with bingo parlors and
naked old ladies.” I have no idea what he actually said. I usually tuned him
out, except for one occasion, when I was feeling particularly ornery and I
asked, “What about the other place? Hell. What’s it like?”
His answer was grim. “Each man sees it different. Whatever you fear
most, that’s what awaits you there. There is no escape from that hopeless
place!”
I spent that night and many since trying to imagine what my own
personal Hell would look like, starting with the entrance. Instead of pearly
gates, maybe there would be a cave leading underground. And instead of
Saint Peter’s judgmental ass, Hell’s bouncer would be a giant dog made of
flames, sizzling drool dripping from its jaws in anticipation of its next meal.
Or maybe an army of zombies instead, their hands bursting out of the
ground to clutch at my ankles and drag me under so I would become one of
them… but only after they sucked out my brain through my eye sockets. I
imagined all sorts of gruesome scenarios. None of them stuck. Not until my
junior year of high school, when it finally clicked. The entrance to my
personal Hell would be glimmering glass doors that butterfly open to draw
me in for seven hours of institutionalized torture each morning. Just the
sight of the school entrance is enough to make me break into a cold sweat,
because much like Hell, this place is guarded by a monster. One worse than
anything my morbid imagination ever conjured up.
I’d make a run for it if not for the bottleneck of bodies that block the
way. Leaving through any other door isn’t allowed. The school funnels us
through the main entrance in the name of protecting everyone, which is
laughable. I never feel safe here. I’d need to turn invisible for that.
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