W@ke

Introduction

I have taken the prompt from this Vocal list piece:

The prompt is

Write a story about a character who is trapped in a nightmare.

The music is "Nightmare" by Brainbug

W@ke

The surgeon told me to count backwards from ten, I think I got to eight but I am now fully awake in this place, the up is down and the left is right and when I move it hurts.

There are shadows with eyes and disembodied hands that run around like spiders, but there is no floor or ceiling, and there is no sky, I am floating expecting to fall.

Am I being operated on, are they cutting into me, I don't know, I want to wake but if I wake will it me mid-operation?

I am frightened and hurting, I was supposed to be sleeping but this is not sleep, this is hell. Are the things I see a threat? Those shadows with eyes are just wrong. They watch but do not move, they watch the scurrying hand.

There are sounds like ratchety chains, on a sinking ship.

Although I can move I don't know where I am going and this place has no form or structure.

Did the operation go wrong?

Am I dead?

I can still see and think, but I am frightened, I am so frightened.

I want to wake up, but I am stuck in this hellish dream and I don't know how to get out.

I am not calm, at all.

I scream but the sound disappears ito the hellish blackness here.

I think I am stuck but pray that I will wake soon.