Running Home

We were in campus and suddenly there was screaming in the court yard. Everyone panicked and assumed the worst. True enough, our campus was being invaded by zombies. Everyone tried to save themselves and managed to do it quite easily as they zombies were not very fast.

The 4 of us managed to get into a car. This was great as a moving vehicle not only provided a shield but allowed us to out run the zombies. We just have to stay in the car and keep on driving...

***

Our plan was to get home to our families since our college town was destroyed. The problem was we would soon run out of gas and had to refuel our car. But doing that would mean stopping and getting out of the car. We had to be careful.

***

We made a few stops along the way to seek shelter. One of them being in a Christian sanctuary located in a hill top town. The priest working there was very welcoming and prepared a room for us. While we were waiting for our room, we heard a knock on the door. Girl Guides were offering to sell cookies.

The priest said he will sort that out later after we get settled in. But, a zombie attacked those 3 girls while they were out side and turned them into zombies too. One zombie couldn't possibly break the church doors, but 4 did it without effort.

We quickly made our escape and drove away as fast as we could, but for some reason, we left the poor priest behind!

Caves

Steven had to save his 3 guardians. They were being attacked and their energy and life were slowly being drained out. He had to get to them and bring a rejuvenation potions to heal them.
But he also had to block a portal to prevent a flood from devouring the cave of wonders he was in. The cave had many rooms and mazes with each having their own magical powers. His guardians were in one of the many thousand rooms. Once steven found a substitute to help him block the floor hole, he went to collet ingredients to make the potion and randomly chose a room to work in. The cave was pink and purple. Shaped almost like the inside of intestine. Or... was it a brain?
While he was working in one of the rooms, he heard laughter and conversation. When he observed it closely, he realised it was someone he knew. His aunt and uncle. But they looked different. More fresh. Younger. And they were! It was them in the past, having a conversation about their future, their children and Steven too. But they couldn't see "future" Steven there watching them. So he just listened while he worked. Making small comments here and there on what his uncle and aunt were saying as he knew the outcome of some of their predicaments.

Then suddenly they heard him. And noticed him. He asked if they recognised him. "Do I look like an older version of a baby you know?". His aunt knew straight away. 

The room he was in brings moments from the future and past and plays them like a video or tape. Just that one moment. Like reliving a memory or living a future vision. Sometimes the moment replays on and on. Sometimes it changes to another memory of a different person. Was it random? Steven had a feeling not. He thinks the room brings the memory for a reason and won't let go of it until they do what they need to. Maybe it even brings the memory for the person listening and watching to realise and understand something.

Then he realised it. One of the decisions his aunt made that day affected the course of his future. It helped him in the situation he was in. And true enough once he realised this, the scene changed and it was a different memory playing in that room. But why was his aunt suddenly able to see him? And speak to him? Did that not change her memory of the event in the future? Maybe the moment she saw him wasn't the actual event but a dream she had later that night about the earlier event and in that dream was were she saw Steven.

Battle of the Dorms, Sexes and Species

A boarding school where students were, for some reason, brainwashed. They we made to hate students from other dorms to make them more competitive.

They were made to see the opposite gender either as siblings or another species to avoid them from having feelings for one another. To avoid being distracted from their studies of course.

In one of the water polo competitions there was a misunderstanding. One of the divers dove before the whistle was blown to save a drowning team mate and was disqualified. He was severely punished. This angered the crowd as it was clearly an act to save a life.

The students started to feel uneasy and confused why such a thing was seen as a norm in the school.

They started forming groups to conspire against the school. Can they free themselves? Can they figure out what has been done to them? Will they realise gilrs aren't girraffes and boys arent crocodiles?

How to be Something You Miss?

A year ago, she moved into a new house. Just two doors away from... him.

When she walked over to her direct neighbours house he watched her.

There was a welcome party there. The kids were playing with water guns. He told her he liked her. She said she had someone else back home.

As days passed, he helped around her house. Soon she liked him too. He taught her new things. Helped her make friends and made her a different person. Someone friendlier. Warmer.

***

Flash forward to today, she is heartbroken and he had left her because he wanted to follow his own path. He said they wanted different things and couldn't be together. She felt he was going down a road she could not follow. The path was dark and he became cold.

They went through some rough patches while they were together. The worst event was when they were out with a another couple, a girl and a guy. During the outing, they fell into an argument with each other. One thing led to another and the couple was never to be seen again.

Sometimes she would get nightmares of the girl. Her dad will be driving and she is in the passenger seat and the girl would try to ask for help and try to get in the car but they just continue driving.

But the drive was slow. So slow the girl would be able to follow right next to car. Haunting them.

***

They are no longer together but she is telling the story of how they met in this dream.

She just watches as her family laughs and have fun and for some reason she thinks;

Where is he now and what is he doing? Why did he leave her? Why does she miss him?

Days

The world repeats itself from day to day. When midnight comes, yesterday is today. Today is tomorrow. All the days, the same..

Humans in this world were programmed to repeat their lives. They were stuck in one day, forever. But they didn't know it.

Adam managed to free himself from the brainwashing and the hypnotised state everyone else was in. He managed to free his friend Anna as well.

He had this theory that somewhere underground there was a control room that had a switch that would shut off the chips in everyone heads that forced them to reset their days.

For some reason, he was confident of it.

***

Anna allowed him to stay her place and in return he would help her family remember too. He managed to help them remember and not to repeat the same day.

Anna told her parents to meet her in the kitchen that night to discuss her plans to help Adam.

That night, she walked to the kitchen and no one was there. She went to look for her parents. She went to their room and sure enough, they were on their bed reading. Just like they always do. Every night.

Anna’s family had relapsed. They began to repeat the days again. Anna was afraid.

***

Adam's plan was to slowly search for the underground room everyday till they found it, using clues and by doing research.

However, Adam and Anna's unfamiliar day to day pattern was detected since it was not repetitive, and they were caught.

Adam was caught and his brother was sure his planned had failed. It turns out his brother was the one behind it all.

Anna  was caught by the robots who were design to keep the system in place. They took her away to avoid any more problems and tried to "fix" her.

Little did they knew of the butterfly affect that had taken place due to Anna’s absence..

Anna had made many plans that day (just like everyday) with various people. And they did not meet her, they deviated from what was planned for them

When all the people she was suppose to meet that day became worried, they deviated from their pattern and began to ask questions and search for her. The massive surge of confusion  and unfamlair patterns caused the system to break down on its own.

Everyone was free.

***

Adam was confronting his brother at the time. Asking questions and wondered why he did all this in the first place.

His brother was obsessed with keeping this the same and organised. He was stuck in the past and didn't want to ket go. He wanted to have control of everything.

But could he control Adam?

Who would win between the two?

Forget...

Every time you set foot in that house, you find it hard to remember. You keep forgetting everything. The longer you stay the more you forget, and eventually you forget that you can leave the house.

Then you forget everything.

***

For some reason, the 5 of us moved. We moved into a new house. It was a smaller house, but it didn't really matter. We didn't stay at home often anyway. It was simply a place to stay.

To avoid having to redecorate the house or make any repairs, the agents made sure the occupants are always in a "daze" and a confused state of mind. In that house, you forget what happened in the last 5 minutes. Then it becomes worse, you start to forget what happened in the pass hour, day, month maybe.

Who knows. Who cares.

You look outside and think, I should go outside? Should I? Can I? Wait... what?

What?

And think again, should I go outside? And again, and again. But you won't leave, because you can't.

You don't know what you're doing, where you are, why you're there. You just walk about the house aimlessly. Sleep, when you're tired, eat when you're hungry. But you will forget why is it you are actually living.

You start to forget what goes on outside the house. Who the people are around you. You forget how to leave the house. Trapped in something that goes on in a continuous repetitive cycle.

In the end, you end up paying rent without complaints.

All a big conspiracy to trick people into paying for things you don't even know what you need it for.

Javanese Islands

My mother, her daughter’s and her nieces went to visit our great aunt. She lived on her own island. It was one of the Javanese Islands. She lived alone. At least so we thought.

We took a boat to cross the sea that was hard and the waves were high. 100 m away from the island we could see our dear aunt waiting at the dock. Waiting to welcome us. The house was quite a decent size, large in fact, for some one living alone. It was 2 storey house, full of antique furniture. It was creepy most definitely, yet it felt warm and comfortable. I am one who has difficulty adjusting to new places, especially houses that have been built years and years ago, yet still maintained its fittings from way back then. But some how, I could adjust into this new setting.

After dinner, we went upstairs to sit in the family room. In the living room. Funny it is called the living room, cause what we didn’t know was it was filled with the dead.

Suddenly we saw a little person run across. This little person was a clown. This clown was not very happy. This clown was evil. The evil wanted to attack. The attack was directed to the children. The children were afraid. The fear made our aunt worry.  My grand aunt quickly put the clown into a little jar and placed it on the desk.

That night, for some reason my mother decided to check if the clown was still inside, she opened the lid of the jar, and sure enough the clown escaped. Worried about our fate, we all slept in one big room that night.

Then, one of us suddenly decided to go to the bathroom, of course we went a group, and of course the clown found us. But it didn’t harm us, it just wanted to apologize for all the decades it has been harming children. The clown said it has change.

My grand aunt was skeptical about the clown's words, but decided to allow it to be free, with the condition it was chained with a spell.

It was an interesting trip to my aunt's place. Every family has secrets. Mine is no different.