Monday, February 15, 2016

Re-telling of the Black Eyed Children

Good evening Nightlings, this is Cynic Candor once again. The topic for this rotation is popular folk lore, or folk lore you find interesting. Per my choice, I will be talking about the tale of the Black Eyed Children...The tale goes as follows:
You will be relaxing in your home one night when a sudden uneasy feeling comes over you and you feel chills crawling down your spine. Looking around, you'll spot one or possibly two small figures through the window. Without warning, there is a slight rapping on the door. Even though everything in your body is telling you to not answer it, you find yourself walking towards the door, almost by someone else's volition. Opening the door, you are faced with a small figure, that of a young child. "May I come in? I need to use your phone..." the child asks, looking away from you. You are overwhelmed by a nauseating feeling in the pit of your stomach. Unsure of what to say, you stand, dumbfounded. "I need to call my parents, may I come in and use your phone?" the child persists. "Tell me the number, and I'll dial it for you." you respond, not sure of what else to say. "Let me in, I need to come in now." The child becomes more aggravated and louder. Everything in your body is telling you that there is something horribly wrong with this situation, but you find yourself reaching out to the child. A sense of dread overwhelms you as you realize you no longer have control over your body. With a snap, you come back to your senses and quickly retract your arm from the doorjamb. "No, you cannot come in, now leave." The child finally looks up at you and you see something straight out of nightmares. The child's eyes are completely soulless black, the color of glistening tar. "May I come in," the child says, now with a voice that can in no way belong to a small child. You slam the door shut and are left pondering whether what you saw was real, or the product of a sleep deprived mind...
Thus goes the story of the Black Eyed Children. So Nightlings, the next time you are approached by a child in the dead of the night, what will you do...?

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