Mood- en Ref Boards
Short Story
This town is a strange one, and this is how the story goes.
Obviously, the town wasn’t always as high up as it is now, it used to be normal houses down by the street, the old cars parked neatly by their houses. The townsfolk, too, were as average as any. But one day someone went missing, and another, and then another. Every week a person would just disappear. Nobody in this town knew what was happening, and slowly but surely everyone started to panic at the amount of people going missing. Some insisted on helping to find the poor souls, others stayed inside and only came out for the necessary things. Eventually, one poor fella found out how the people went missing. He and his father went out to go get groceries. What happened then was not something you’d normally see. While passing through an alleyway, the boy looked over, he saw the ground by his father open up and entangle him with roots. He screamed out but with no prevail. The ground had as quickly as it had opened, swallowed his father whole. All that was left was a bump in the ground. The boy, traumatized by what had happened and terrified for his life, had ran back and told the townsfolk his tale. Obviously, some were sceptic, but after some of them went looking themselves, with another person missing from the group, they believed him. Instead of moving out, the townsfolk started building up, leaving their old houses behind to get away from the ground. They built a path over their original houses to get to their jobs, and started living life again as normally. No one went missing anymore. The only thing that happened was that it got a little colder and that a strange mist started hanging around the town. The factories and stores stayed open. After everything it seemed to go alright again. But eventually, something went wrong in one of the factories, that loosened a toxic air mixing with the mist. People started getting sick, vomiting and not being able to work. People died because of this toxic mist, but those were mostly old people. The younger people started leaving the town. They went looking for a future or wanted their kids to be in a safer place than that they were in now. Slowly the town became emptier and quieter. Only the sick ones who were unable to leave and the elderly stayed, but soon enough, they too, died like the ones who had been sick before or had been taken by the ground for its needs.
Some say the nature there wanted the people to leave, and when they didn’t take the hint it went to further measures. Some say the trees didn’t get enough water and nutrition and started taking humans for it. Some say it’s bad luck. But what we know for sure is that that town is not safe, not for staying in or just taking a stroll through.
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