The Road To Nowhere

The walker wanted to get home. They were tired and needed to rest in their bed. He was lost.

They asked for directions and were given them, and started walking thinking this way would take them home.

It was getting dark, clouds were overhead and there was fog. The road was on a slight downward gradient, but they trusted the ones who had given directions.

They noticed that there were no signposts, no sign of humanity apart from the road itself.

Each step they took increased their anxiety, were they really going home? They looked back and there was a black fog. They were unable to turn back but they did not know why.

So they moved forward under the darkening cloud in the thickening fog.

Down they went, on this black road. They could not leave the road, they would become even more lost.

"is there anybody out there?" they shouted, but their words were swallowed by the grey fog. If there were any more people or creatures around they would not have heard.

Then the road came to an end.

There was nowhere for them to go and they could not turn back.

They had given up finding their way back home but did not expect to find this blankness, this "nothing".

Was this a hell they had been cast into or something else?

They did not know.

They were alone at the the end of the road to nowhere...