Dreams Of Blood And Yellow Eyes

By Jackson Stark

The night is long and hot as hell. The heat is in the air and feels like sweat soaking itself onto the body. James is in bed watching tv trying to stay cool without a care in the world. He switches from streaming service periodically unable to decide on what to watch. He relents and goes to the kitchen to get himself an ice-cold drink. Before the refreshing drink can touch his lips he feels a chill. Every hair on the back of his neck stands up like a soldier at attention and a feeling of fear sweeps over him. He is being watched, he can’t see them but he can feel them. This has happened for the past few nights. He has suffered from sleep paralysis and horrible dreams over these past 3 nights. He feels cold, he cannot move and a voice calls to him “Kill James Kill”As the voice speaks to him he feels blood. Wet hot metallic smelling blood, in his eyes, mouth, and nose, he is bathed in warm fresh blood. The vision always ends the same way, the only way to stop the blood is to appease the entity with blood. He enters the entity’s altar where a victim is waiting for him. He is bound and gagged on a stone table, he has porcelain white skin and piercing innocent blue eyes. He picks up the knife on the altar, it is long, sharp, and has the head of a demon upon the handle, it calls to him. As he picks up the knife a strange sensation fills him. He feels a power, power as if he is connected to all of the evil in the world, he likes it. The boy looks at him with fear in his eyes, he looks like prey that has just realized its time in this world is…