irresistably compelled, i entered it.
everyone there had the look of a ghost or a corpse. "this has to be a dream!", i thought. the sinking, underlying, feeling something terrible had just happened to me was impossible to deny. had i died?? i wanted, needed to leave! to wake up!!
suddenly, a waitress of a definite corpse likeness(such as one that had underwent a 1000 years or more of decay) approached and asked with an eerie friendliness, "what would you like newcomer?"
to leave!", i couldn't help replying. "you can't leave!", she yelled, furiously eyeing me. "not until you get your bill!"
"but I haven't even ordered!?", i replied. a shrill, bone chilling laughter then rose from her- such that i will never forget! "so do it!", she finally snarled, almost mockingly. i quickly ordered coffee and toast just to get her to leave.
after she left i began to notice the temperature there was strangely temperate especially compared with the torturously stifling atmosphere. i glanced around and i suddenly felt as if everyone there knew my every secret but also that if i looked at them long enough i could know all of theirs too.
"you like the music?, the man or rather corpse to my right asked, interrupting my phantasmic premonitions. "here they only play john tesh", he laughed loudly. "definitely not a fan", i laughed back. "or of this place either!, i replied. how long you been here?", i asked.
just then my food arrived. the coffee was cold and rancid. "like a corpse's blood, eh?", the man laughed. "yeah i guess", i managed startled. coming from him it wasn't funny.
the "toast" looked as if made of flesh! i turned in stunned disbelief and horror at the sudden realization that it was my flesh!! only then to see the other corpses charging towards me, their eyes red with a lustful hunger!
"welcome to the menu!", the waitress screamed. her evil, shrill, maniacal laughter echoed in my head as they swarmed like insects upon me. the agony and torture ripped thru my body, mind and soul.as i had definitely been pinched(you might say), the ultimate enigma of it had been solved- it was purgatory! i could only hope now for the bill arrive. even if it meant i was going to hell that would have to be better than this!
but wait, how could i forget!? my trusty little helper that is- the 4th dimensional gnome Kudos! i made the secret call, and like always he arrived almost instantly.
to be continued...