by Stacey Foxworthy

Created on: November 03, 2008

How...how did I come to be in this place? Remembering back it starts to come to me...one simple choice, a choice I had made long ago. A solemn vow, a pledge to torment and terrorize the one I felt responsible for my misery and pain. I couldn't forgive...wouldn't forgive and I swore never to allow myself to forget. I wanted vengeance, needed vengeance. I was consumed by fantasies of eternal suffering and damnation inflicted upon the man I deemed a monster...my own personal demon.

How could I have predicted that my deepest, darkest desire would become a reality? I was a fool to believe that the immensity of my hatred and rage would not affect the nature of things. I didn't truly grasp the power of those volatile feelings and emotions that I harbored so secretively. If I could do it over again I would do just that but I cannot go back and undo the damage that has been done. I am forced to walk this wretched path for all eternity. My thoughts and actions have condemned me to a world filled with nothing beyond sorrow, despair, misery, and pain.

By now you have probably come to realize that I do not reside among the living earthbound spirits. Drifting aimlessly about another realm I am trapped in a world drained of color, floating about dreary fogs of grey and blackness. I walk the ethereal path of vengeance. What is beyond this if anything I do not know. Perhaps this is all that remains after our life on Earth comes to an end or I may have unintentionally condemned myself to a life in limbo. I have no answers and no one to seek answers from.

I can smell him. His stench perforates every molecule of this place. I observe his every movement from behind a strange, distorted film and I can sense his uneasiness. The rage inside me grows as I watch him go about his daily routine with glee. How dare he go on about his life as if nothing had happened! How dare he find happiness...the very happiness he had stolen from me!

One drunken night...a speeding car...a girl out for a moonlit walk with her boyfriend. It all happened so suddenly. The screeching of tires...the blaring of a radio...the painful thud...the consuming darkness. One man left dying in the street...a young woman trapped in limbo between the realm of the living and the realm of the dead...a drunken fool leaving the scene of the crime. They never caught the man who stole the lives of that innocent couple. He continues to remain at large.

I follow him into the kitchen and watch him grab a beer from the refrigerator.

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