Swartz-Barnes 1

Mrs. Mounts

Gavin Swartz-Barnes

Creative Writing

March 17th, 2019

Going Forward

I slept quite well last night.

It was a nice night.

There were the chimes and the smell of delightful fires.

The giggles of friendly folk could be heard on the other side of my thin bedroom walls on

the street below.

They didn’t bother me.

I slept quite well today.

It was a nice night.

There were no chimes and no smell of delightful fires.

The giggles of friendly folk were gone and now all I could hear on the other side of my

thin bedroom walls were crickets on the street below.

We were blessed by that strange shadow.

It came with our pleads for help.

The unnerving dreams that crept into our minds night after night.

It came with a promise.

One that it kept.

It’s blue eyes lit up like a nightly storm and smiled.

I was glad that I didn’t have to look forward to any more nights after this.