• I'm deep in the dark, Cotton Wood forest.
    The church bells start ringing because it is mid-night.
    Step by step I get lured into the foggy, dungeon-like forest.
    Snap. Snap.
    What was that?
    Is someone else joining me in this moon lit place?
    I can hear breathing behind me.
    I stop in my tracks.
    I feel cold lips against my neck.
    And teeth dig into my skin.
    It didn't hurt at all.
    It was painless.
    I turn around, not knowing what to think.
    I look into the young man's eyes.
    Crystal blue.
    Amazing.
    We share air as I come closer to this man.
    He is my age.
    Have we met before?
    No.
    But I feel strangely addicted to him.
    As if I loved him.
    We don't speak.
    Why should we?
    We walk away into the night.
    We hold hands.
    Palm against palm, we connect.
    We become one, and melt into the forest.
    Have you ever done that before?
    THE END