Don’t Worry About It
You’re slowly stirred awake by the distant ringing as the phone beside your bed pulls you out of your dreams. Your thoughts gather themselves and you groan, reaching over to answer.
As soon as you place the phone to your ear, you’re greeted by the background noise consisting of twisted screams. People in agonizing pain begging for help or death, not that the interference allows you to hear any individual voice clearly enough.
“Get out of the house now!”
The call ends abruptly after what you could have sworn was a voice from closer to you than on the other end. You shift yourself to the side of the bed, sighing while rubbing your eyes. A call this startling and this early in the morning would keep you awake.
Your wife shuffles to the side, apparently also woken by the call. She wraps her arms around you and gives a light kiss on the neck.
“Don’t worry about it,” Her half asleep mumble calms you down somewhat.
Just as you’re about to place the phone down, it rings again. You fumble slightly and drop it. Instead, you feel your wife’s arms tighten around you, preventing you from leaning forward.
It’s then you notice a subtle difference between the arms around you and the familiarity of your wife’s.
“He’s too late to save you anyway.”
Posted in Strange & Unknown
August 23rd, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Dare I do it? Oh, why not?
WHO WAS PHONE???
Honestly, though. This one just scared the shit out of me. I’m not getting married for a long, long time.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:06 pm
It could have been written better, but I like the idea behind it.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:12 pm
i get it but i dont i wish it had more of a story to it
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Nice story, but the background noises in the phone call seemed like they were thrown in there just for the hell of it.
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:39 pm
BUT WHO WAS WIFE?!
August 23rd, 2008 at 9:45 pm
i dont get it
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Interesting! And not to mention fresh! Me likey.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Oh I like it!
It reminds me of that one where the daughter says “the thing wearing mummy’s skin sat up”.
August 23rd, 2008 at 10:56 pm
OH NOES. That scared me good. No sleep for me tonight.
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:14 pm
I DONT GET IT!!!!!!!!!! explain?
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:54 pm
wat
August 23rd, 2008 at 11:57 pm
This confused me.
August 24th, 2008 at 12:18 am
You’d think he’s realize it wasn’t his wife right away. =/
August 24th, 2008 at 12:39 am
THEN WHO WAS WIFE???
Wow, what a lovely way to start your morning.
Bricks haven’t been shat, but this is still pretty creepy. Whoever the OP is, great job.
Or is it “whomever”? I always get those confused, sorry.
August 24th, 2008 at 1:35 am
I have man hands, sorry =/
August 24th, 2008 at 2:03 am
@5
Ahh, shit, you beat me D:
August 24th, 2008 at 7:58 am
I liked the supernatural element to this. Maybe his “wife” had been planning his death all along. The screaming is a good touch, reminds me a bit of the “save yourself” in Event Horizon.
August 24th, 2008 at 9:29 am
Y’know, now that I read it again, this story is beginning to sound more like some roleplaying fantasy…
August 24th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
hmm.. creepy that would totally wake me up i gusse im a lesbo too?
August 25th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
i like this
i wish there was more to it though…now i’m wary of glomps and hugs from ppl behind me O.o
-turning around- =S
August 25th, 2008 at 1:27 pm
When someone says get out of the house, get out xD
This is good, except a little confusing.
August 25th, 2008 at 5:19 pm
If you are not able to get this tiny collection of sentences and make sense of it then you really ought to learn to read. I mean sure, maybe you can pronounce words but if you can’t understand this story you have no reading comprehension.
The phone rings and wakes a man up, telling him to get out of the house. Arms from who he thinks is his wife hug him. He then realizes it isn’t his wife and the person says “it’s too late”.
You guys need to reread it or, I don’t know, not randomly skim the thing and decide leaving a comment is easier than figuring it out.
I feel like a dick but I just can’t see how anyone could not understand this story.
August 26th, 2008 at 5:25 am
what i don’t understand is why he didn’t recognise that it wasn’t his wife’s voice
August 26th, 2008 at 6:31 am
@23: He was half asleep, the person/thing in the bed was mumbling so maybe it just didn’t register immediately. Sometimes when some people are startled awake it can take them a few moments to get a grip on their surroundings.
I like this one, though it could maybe do with being drawn out a little bit or reworded to emphasise the protagonists disorientation.
August 26th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
@ 23…or the creature cud b a shape shifter and was pretending to b ur wife all along
September 1st, 2008 at 1:25 am
The proper question is, “BUT… WHO WAS ARMS?”
September 2nd, 2008 at 1:24 pm
RAPE
September 10th, 2008 at 12:44 am
This one took me a few seconds. XD Not to bad. I like it.
October 5th, 2008 at 1:46 am
nice set up, terrible, thin ending.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:30 am
just pointing out the obvious. his wife was the screaming on the other line. she was kidnapped/replaced. duh.
November 19th, 2008 at 10:25 am
Obligatory THEN WHO WAS PHONE???
November 20th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
BUT WHO WAS DISJOINTED SCREAMS?
ok whats up with the phone and not ur wife in bed. noone is that heavy of a sleeper. also, what if u sleepwalked into the wrong house and u were liek oh shit, which is why u shat bricks