Sweat pouring down her brow, Judith Denton ran through the the woods she had played in as a child.
Her thoughts
streaked back and forth between those carefree days and the last few
days of her first year in College.
Deep in the shadows of the trees up
ahead, the burning embers of a cigarette lit black-hearted eyes that watched the sultry
form of Judith as she jogged through the woods...
Completely lost in thought, Judith approached the ominous
figure lurking in the shadows, oblivious to the fact that her life was about to take an irreversible turn for the worse.
Judith
didn't even have a second to draw a breath as a noose descended over
her head and yanked her sharply from her feet strangling her.
Stunned,
Judith hit the ground with a thud, her head cracking the tight packed
dirt with such force that her vision blurred.
As
darkness closed in about her, she had a vague sense of a blurry mass
of flesh looming over her reeking of lust and whiskey.
Judith
opened her eyes slowly, groggily shaking her head unable to make out
the images before her. She was shivering with fear.
A
terrible nightmare for the young girl was about to start...
"The
darkness enveloped her and her imagination ran wild. All manner of
vile creatures slithered through her imagination causing tears to well
in her eyes and stream down her cheeks. For an eternity she cried
whimpering into the shadows, wishing and fearing the sweet release of
death. Finally after an eternity of black, a shaft of light
appeared with the chill of dawn and suddenly, the horrid visage of her
captor appeared above her holding open the lid to the pit..."
"Judith’s
heart raced and disbelief coursed through her veins chilling her to the
bone. The last few days of horror and misery had not prepared her
for this. Nothing could have prepared her for this, and she
swallowed hard in desperation, trying to gather her thoughts as two
figures approached the closet..."