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Prose Challenge of the Week #46: It’s Halloween. Scare us shitless in 30 words or more. The winner will be chosen based on a number of criteria, this includes: fire, form, and creative edge. Number of reads, bookmarks, and shares will also be taken into consideration. The winner will receive $100. When sharing to Twitter, please use the hashtag #ProseChallenge.
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Let me peek at you near the lamppost

The waters were black and angry, like some hue of death was mixed in. Lead clouds poured heavier, a thunder bolt came down, and the eerie winds sighed. The boat that I was on, must be a wreck on the shore by now. Waves devoured me, pushing down. Water entered into my mouth and nostrils, depriving my lungs of air space. Suddenly, I was saturated.

I kept going down, sinking. A giant silhouette of a whale passed by. Suddenly, the environment was no longer watery. Did I reach the seabed? Or had I crossed it? I had lost all the weight of my body, when I reached this place. It was pitch black here. I walked without an idea. The heat was intensifying, I stumbled onto something metallic. It gave a clatter miles down somewhere. I felt as if I was being sucked from all sides, like in a vacuum. There was a 'Meow' of a cat, and it kept echoing. In the distance, wicked red eyes switched on and off. They were moving near. I moved backward, step by step, trying to feel the land. Suddenly, in all blackness, a white shroud hissed past, sending shivers down my spine. My legs were becoming numb, I felt like I had stepped on air. But the land beneath my feet had really ended, and I was falling down the chasm, into the inferno, to the demons...

I'm coming back, to the sea and up. To you. I haunt your dreams, and run in your veins. I sadden your soul. To see me, see carefully if a shadow follows you or a shroud, when you walk by that lamppost by night.