Lost In the Never

I can't remember when I saw the last road sign or phone box. I looked behind and the road disappeared into a grey fog, also the road was so narrow I couldn't turn the car around, but the petrol gauge was in the red so I had maybe another ten miles before the engine packed up, and then what?

I didn't know where I was and had no way of contacting anyone, there weren't even any emergency phones or street lights along this stretch and there was no sign of any dwellings anywhere. There was the odd dead tree but that was the only sign that there had been any life here, and, of course. someone had laid the road, well that was the assumption.

The petrol ran out so I pushed the car to the side of the road, and started walking.

The was a breeze blowing that seemed to carry voices.

I walked along the road, hoping to find something to tell me where I was, but there was nothing. I looked back and the car had disappeared in the fog. When I walked back the fog came towards me pushing me back. I don't why, but I could not go back, my car was lost, and I definitely was lost.

I turned round and one word was in the breeze that stood out.

"Never"

As I walked the words became clearer

"You Can Never Go Back"

"This Is The Never"

"You Can Never Hope"

"You Can Never Leave"

I could not leave the road, the edges now just fell away, and as I moved forward the road got narrower. Eventually, it became a path. I wanted to turn back but the fog wouldn't let me.

I was expecting this to happen.

The road, or rather path, came to an end, and I was still being pushed by the fog.

I tried to stand my ground but the path started to crumble.

There was no escape.

I was falling into the Never and I would never return ......