Into The Wild Short Story

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Ravens call from the distant snow-covered forest trees with a harsh grating sound as the incandescent moon illuminates the dim-lit isolated street, but it is the unsettling howling wind of the dark night that deepens the fear in the pit of my stomach. Will the track marked monster return to defeat me once again? As I pull the old, threadbare blanket over my depleted self, she abruptly enters the bedroom, slamming the door behind her. Yelling repeatedly “Why can’t you be like other children?”, whilst beating me profusely with a heavy studded belt. I cry until my eyes become swollen with each blow that tears at my flesh. “I’m not afraid to dig a grave and put you in it” she threatens. And as she storms out of the room, I close my eyes to …show more content…

“Could you please help me young boy? I’ve lost my dog” I beg. “Yes, I will help find your dog, I love dogs” he replies. As Elijah bends over, I pull him inside the car and knock him out with chloroform. I place him before the passenger’s seat on the floor in the fetal position. I drive into the wide-ranging forest to the hut and sit him down on the kitchen chair. His eyes open, I smile. He screams, but not loud enough for passers-by to hear. I spoon-feed him my favourite dish, watch my favourite movie: The Shining, rest him in the warm bed and watch him sleep. With each scream, I threaten “I’m not afraid to dig a grave and put you in it”. But at 2:00am, when he wakes up screaming I snap and shove a chloroform rag in his face. I walk with a shovel and body bag. I dig a grave in the remote area of the forest and bury the little boy – the boy I use to be. People tortured me. Now it’s their turn to feel the pain and suffering I had to endure. Next day; 2:30am It is time for a long-distance haul in the truck. I am driving down the Texas/New Mexico state highway as the rain begins to pour. In the distance, a dishevelled teenage boy stands holding his arm out with a travel bag with some sort of foreign flag, underneath the “Welcome to Texas” sign. The car reduces to a motionless

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