Day 3,000

 The hallway twisted and turned at random, disrupted every so often with a door or two that each led to the same street. At least from a glance they were completely identical but as soon as ones eyes began to wander, the differences leapt out and unease settled in.

In one door, the windows of the closest house on the right had sigils carved into every glass window pane.

In another, there were thin spiderweb covering the sky as if to mimic the clouds in the others.

But every street, every door and every turn within the corridor there was one constant.

One shared misery. 

One dead child's body, being made to follow at a distance.

Day 2,999

Beneath the sounds of bones splintering and rearranging, she could still clearly hear her daughter screaming for help.

Day 2,998

Thr bike was found sticking half out of the swamp, crumpled with clumps of viscera still clinging onto what little remained of the handlebars.

Day 2,997

Grandad always said he was heading out to hunt deer or catch us some pheasants for supper. We knew the forest was as empty as the village was becoming but we tries not to think about it when we sat down to a meal of fresh meat every night.

Day 2,996

The cavern was supposed to be filled with salt crystals and breathtakingly beautiful stalactites. When they arrived all they saw, spanning the ceiling in a thick pulsating mesh, was a fleshlike root system and at its centre a cluster of jaws snapped as they tore into something that still held enough air in their lungs to scream.

Day 2,995

It was already dying when I found it, all riddled with bullet wounds and shivering in a pool of its own blood. My handgun almost weighed heavier than my conscience as it weakly rolled its eyes towards me.

Yesterday it was my brother and bubtje end of today it would be just another mangled piece of meat for the birds fight over.

Day 2,994

He was drunk when he got into the thing he'd assumed was his car. He'd passed out long before he could realise that the door closed behind him with a distinct teeth-like click.