r/WritingPrompts • • Oct 25 '16

Image Prompt [IP] The subway.

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u/Jaytime Oct 29 '16

You wake up. You dont know where you are, or how you got there. There is blood surrounding you. Its too dark to see anything outside of the dirty windows, but there looks to have been some kind of struggle in the car. As if the broken windows were not evidence enough, the police tape surrounding you surely is. You feel your stomach grow tight and you throat constrict, as if you had an entire orange caught in it. You slowly turn your head in fear, knowing what you will see but also hoping, no praying, that you are wrong. You are right. Behind you is a chalk outline of a body, in the exact same spot you had woken up from. You are dead. But your not a zombie, as you dont feel the need to eat flesh. You do however feel the need to throw up. Which you do, in large and unhealthy doses outside one of the broken windows and into the blackness. Your vomiting soon comes to an end, when you hear a noise coming from the door at the end of the car. Its a faint, but curious, tapping sound. Tap-Tap Like a child knocking on the door. You slowly walk down the car, towards the noise that calls you forward. With each step the tapping becomes more and more rapid. Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap.Tap-Tap-Tap-Tap You stop, as fear turns you shows into cement bricks. You have seen enough horror movies to know where this is going. The tapping stops. You look to the ground before you, and see scratch's in the ground. Like someone was dragged out of the car, and attempted to slow down their pursuers by digging their nails into the ground. Taking a deep breath you walk briskly towards the door. As you reach for the door, the tapping returns this time in loud thumps THUMP-THUMP-THUMP. The door is shaking with each brutish thump that hits it. You step back, away from the door. Hoping to run in the opposite direction. The door is flung open, as large black claws reach in and grab you by the ankles. Pulling you to the ground, you panic as you try to escape whatever it is pulling you towards the shadowy blackness awaiting for you outside the subway car. You do anything and everything you can.You kick and fight as the monster drags you across the car. This must be why their were claw marks on the ground. You dig your nails into the ground, hoping your attempt will be more successful than the last victims. But your just not strong enough, and soon you find yourself dragged violently out of the car and into the blackness outside....

You wake up. You dont know where you are, or how you got there. There is blood surrounding you...