The Black Street

How could everyone have my face? There wasn't even different in a mole. Having my heart in my mouth, I was watching them without blinking, all of them were wad in the dark black, wandering in street, that Street was quite normal like other market streets, but the only abnormal thing was those people like my carbon-copy...that Street was completely unfamiliar to me.

In the dark midnight, I was standing in the corner of that Street, trying to make out what on earth was going on, but to no avail. I couldn't even understand how I had gotten there. The darkness of the night was stifling me. I could see only with the help of the light coming from the large full moon peeping behind the huge buildings. Its cold, white light was making the street even more creepy. I tremblingly stepped on, trying to find any way to get out of that terrifying street. After looking through every corner of the street, I found out that there was no way to exit or enter, then the question was how I got there.

I had no option other than asking the people wandering there...They were terrifying, but I ventured to talk to them. I moved with small steps; certainly, I was stumbling. I approached a person, one of them. I was standing in front of him but he couldn't see me, I tried to shake him by his shoulder. As I placed my hand on his shoulder, my hand sank into him as in smoke. I yanked away my hand and ran back but he didn't pursue me. Then it dawned on me that perhaps nobody can see me here...Why?...I didn't know.

At a short distance from me, something was glittering. I was frightened, surely, but a curiosity ran in me to find out what that glittering thing was; perhaps it's the way to exit. “It's the last hope”, I said under my breath. I ventured to approach it. My heart frozen, it was a mirror in which I could see my image, but the most confounded thing was that I could see the slashes and stitches on me, just like a body after a post-mortem. I ran my fingers over my face. Have I died???.. but howwww?.. I cried my heart out, but no one could hear me...I kneeled on the ground, indulged in thoughts.. “That's it...this is how my chapter closed?”

A crow sitting on the branch of an old tree, which was deprived of leaves, was glaring down at me. It was bigger than the normal crows; its gaze was like It'll gulp me...I wanted to conceal myself from its glare, but there was no refuge.

Suddenly, a high-pitched scream echoed in the street; it was so painful. I covered my ears with my hands and doubled over...when the scream faded, I lifted my face. I couldn't breathe, everything changed in seconds, the people who were wandering were now coming towards me..

My eyes widened, and I ran in the opposite direction, but there was nothing but a wall. I screamed with my full potential...They were just about two meters away from me. I wished this wall would crack open and swallow me...They were about to approach me, a white smoke spread all over, I couldn't see them clearly, like they faded along with the mist...

I rubbed my eyes and stifled a yawn. I was dreaming??? I asked myself...I was lying on the hospital bed, given a sedative injection..

I sighed in relief...

Maybe it's the effect of watching horror movies, I satisfied myself...Suddenly, I felt moisture on my cheeks. When I ran my hands over my cheeks, my fingers got soaked in the blood trickling from my eyes like tears...A wind of fright blew and engulfed me again; my hands began to tremble. I felt pangs of pain in my arms and the whole body as well.

On pulling up my sleeves, I found out that I've been slashed just like that nightmare.

Was that really a dream or something else???... sprang to my mind.