Bang! The creaking door slammed open and a blurry figure stepped in, with shaggy hair and breathing noisily. Darkness ruled all over the place and Dan couldn’t figure out where he was. Starring at the darkness with his blue eyes for some hope, he was bewildered where to start from.

Only an eerie of light was visible. Dan cautiously stepped forward. Tip, toe, tip, toe… Bang! Dan ran into a creature with skin stiff like fingernails, covered in moisture and four red eyes gazing at him. He found himself standing in front of a two headed snake. He jumpedswiftly and crashed into an uneven boulder. Lost in thinking about the snake, he did not examine the boulder carefully and sat down to take its support.

He observed a yellow light and felt subtle movement in the boulder, which was moving up, down, up, down. He felt as if his heart would come out and, without any noise, moved slowly to the gleaming exit from where he had entered this petrifying nightmare. He felt lucky that no harm had touched him, but while moving backwards, he fell down with a loud thud and suddenly the gleaming exit disappeared too.

But he felt hundreds of miniature creatures under him. Spiders! He didn’t know where he was heading to as he started to run. He soon landed on the ground. But the place where he fell was soft and silky. He then felt something dripping from above. It was blood. He was about to faint but suddenly someone was banging on the wall. A crack appeared glowing with light. It became larger and larger … The screen fainted and at last the dreadful movie ended and everyone in the cinema hall took a sigh of relief.

Published in Dawn, Young World, March 27th, 2021