Eraser
A Horror Short
Out of all the horrors in the world can there be anything more terrifying than destruction of your mind to the point where you do not recognize those that love you, you do not remember your life’s most precious and loving moments, you no longer posses real knowledge of who you are. It’s all erased. Which is exactly what he could do, the man who touched one deep secret of cosmos. His own mind was twirled and destroyed by incomprehensible knowledge and secrets of the universe too heavy for a human tied down inside their earthly body. However he gained an ability to take from others, their emotions, memories, to distort their minds, as he searched to find his own again. All it took was for him to put his two hands on someones head and their mind was erased.
I knew this man all too well. Our whole city now swirled of rumors about this man. Terror has taken hold of the citizens, there was tension in the air on every street, every shop had atmosphere of nervousness transported everywhere by the citizens. Fear was powerful, even without him touching them, the people began to act foolish. Some scientists suggested to put hats and tin foil inside of them, for these experts claimed it could protect them, while this man wasn’t arrested. Many followed this advice. Those ones looked at the others who found this silly with shock and suspicion, every man who did not wear such a thing became a suspect, out to get them, in their eyes. Fear caused conflicts. Fear forced some business owners to close shop and sit at home.
There was I, standing on a bridge over the river. The city was quiet, time to time I saw a ship pass by underneath. A young beautiful woman approached me and to my surprise she asked if she could join me. I was happy to say yes, she reminded me of someone, I felt good standing next to her. Together we talked for hours and laughed. Neither one of us had a care in the world. Then we went to a calm and cozy cafe. She sat across from me smiling and said her name was Sabrina. I stopped drinking my coffee for a moment for I had a vision of me dancing with her, kissing her, making love to her. It felt so real and strong. This could not have been my imagination. I knew her, what was this feeling? She saw my turmoil and put her hand on mine, for some reason tears came out of my eyes. She took out a few photos from her coat, they were photos of us, in the past. A wedding, fishing trip, on a couch, the beach. My head began to throb with immense pain, a pain that was beyond worldly explanation.
Remember when I said I knew of that man well, it’s because that man was I. The pain was not one I could bare as she cried and said that it’s the first time I’ve made this progress, but my mind was starting to drift away because of agonizing sharp stings inside my brain. I couldn’t bare it any longer and I placed my hands on her delicate and loving face and then erased all of her memories of us. Then I got up in tears and ran away.
The horrific pain did not seize to exist, in fact it intensified even further. My body shook and I stood on that bridge again. With horror on my face which perfectly reflected all of this place I had realized that I was about to free this city from their fear and demise. My mind screamed for me to jump, my heart was tearing through my chest, but then…it stopped.
So once again this man went out to roam the city streets, forever.
Perhaps he is no longer here, but in your city now indeed
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