Making your own story

“Only you.”
That is what he was hearing every day and every night in his head.
He knew he should not have bought this house that was surrounded by a haunted forest. He just
wanted the best for his family.
Jason Mackinley was wandering in his lonely house, long ago filled with joy and laughter. Now, the
fireplace was rarely used, the curtains were always closed and there were no other hats or coats in the
hall. Jason had a wife and a son, but both disappeared in the forest a year ago. Yet he sometimes
remembered how his wife used to put one of her white hands and patted him on the knee when he had
a headache. Our hero knew that there were many ghosts and demons in the forest. In fact, he knew
that they possessed a mansion near his house; the demons used to rent it to gain more souls for them
to eat. But the last entry was over two years ago as people were too afraid to come. Jason knew all of
that because he once found a journal under a tree, that was written four years ago. The poor guy that
had written it was surely dead by now, consumed by the demons.
“Only you”, he kept hearing. Now he was sure, this frightening voice came from the devil’s mansion.
He was attracted to it and, with no thoughts in his head, went to the big house. After walking a couple
kilometres, Jason came across the soul’s cemetery. “Jonathan Edison”, he read, “wasn’t that the name
of the Eton schoolboy who was on a walking tour, when all of a sudden...”. He didn’t finish his
sentence, as he arrived at the front door. He pressed the bell. Slightly, the door opened. The interior of
the mansion looked like a 1920’s hotel. Jason was scared, he could feel a pair of eyes watching him.
“Hello and welcome” said a familiar voice coming from behind. “Would you be kind enough to pop
in the sitting-room and sign the guest book? We like to know who we are going to eat!” Suddenly, the
man saw with horror the body of his dead wife talking to him. She was missing an eye; her legs and
arms were bleeding and she had maggots in her mouth. As he walked to the door, he saw the
beheaded head of his son, smiling at him. “Only you”, they said. The last thing that Jason saw was he
own body being dismembered, before falling asleep in the darkness of death.