I've had a couple of short stories on my laptop for a few years now. I've never done anything with them. I'm going to share them on this blog, beginning with Escape, a horror tale of roughly four thousand words.

If you would like to see more of this story, please let me know and I'll continue to post.


ESCAPE


BY DOUGLAS L. WILSON




He awoke with a start. Blinking up into the yellow tinged darkness, he had the briefest of moments to wonder just who and where he was, and then the pain came. His back and legs burned like fire, like a hundred glowing cigarettes being crushed out against his skin. Turning his head ever so slightly, the tiniest of movements really, caused a whole new realm of pain to erupt along the right side of his skull. Forcing himself to sit up, lest the sting against him bite deeper than it already had, he was greeted by the sound of crunching and the shifting of what felt like shards of glass settling beneath his weight.
Pallid light, dismal and weak, vaguely lit his surroundings from above. Craning his neck to look upward, a movement that practically trebled the pain along his right temple, he saw a halo of black surrounding the dim yellow circle that was the entrance to the pit. He was at the bottom of this hole, whatever it was, and he needed to get out. He might not remember who he was just now, but he knew with certainty that time was of the essence.