Excerpt: Past Love

It was uncomfortably silent in here. The rain was pouring down, yet I somehow couldn’t hear it. The delicious scent I had smelled only seconds ago somehow was gone too now and I couldn’t make out another scent anymore. I even couldn’t feel the coldness of my wet clothes against my skin anymore. I couldn’t see the town in the distance anymore. Somehow it seemed as if I wasn’t able to observe anything with my senses anymore. I started to panic. What was happening? Had I gone blind, deaf… senseless at once? How could that be? I started to cry from fear and panic. What was happening? I wanted to yell, scream for help, just say anything to hear something, but I couldn’t speak. My voice was frozen. I couldn’t even hear my sobs. What’s going on! I tried to yell, but not even the slightest sound left my mouth. Help! I tried again, but nothing happened. It seemed that the only thing I could do was move, but where to go to if I couldn’t see where I had to go? The town was still invisible. It would be stupid to go wandering now and eventually get lost. So, I gave up my last piece of hope and stopped moving. I stayed still where I was, completely locked away from the world, all alone, as I had wanted to be some time ago, but which I didn’t want anymore. It was only me now, the world was gone. And then I heard a loud crack. It caught me by surprise and I screamed out loud. At least, I think I screamed out loud, since I still couldn’t hear it. Panic took over and I started to cry even harder. But it wasn’t over yet. Another crack echoed as if the skies were falling down the earth, but this crack was followed by a flash of light. I could see it coming from somewhere above, aiming for me. I yelled again, but it was of no use. The flash of light struck me, I fell down not able of feeling the cold, wet grass and everything went dark again.