You can feel them long before they strike. Someone was missing, something in your space feels empty, and yet you know it’s lurking close by.
You can go frantic looking for them, but nothing happens until you are alone and asleep.
You wake up suddenly in terror. You notice the tightness of your clothes first, strangling you. Then the rest of your senses catch up and you realise you are being strangled.
The only way to win is to peel their long, bony fingers from your neck, on tendril at a time. Their strength is enormous though, and even if you can wake up, even if you can get another person to help you…
They will be there, taunting you as they strangle you. Your strength doesn’t matter.
They attack from behind. You had finally fallen asleep, let your guard down, fallen asleep. Premonitions ignored, pushed to the back of your brain.
Once the attack beings, they slither around to face you. They tell you that you’re choking while they’re choking you, and the only way to kill them is to remove their hyoid bone.
But you’re choking. You’re focused on removing their spindly fingers from your throat. How can you do more?
And then you wake up.
Omg that Teddy! My friend had exactly the same one in grey and without the teeth! He was called Jeremy and I’ll never be able to think of him in the same way again!
Um….that was something different..for me, anyway.
Thank you for sharing your blog post for the final #lifethisweek link up…you were part of my blogging history as it was the 280th link up!!
I look forward to having you link up when I am next back with #lifethismonth on Monday 14 March 2022. Same hours and days open as for #lifethisweek.
Warm wishes,
Denyse.