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Depths

November 24, 2015
By Amnesis BRONZE, Painesville, Ohio
Amnesis BRONZE, Painesville, Ohio
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Thomas Soll sat up from the hard concrete floor, his body hurt all over and he was freezing cold. His surroundings explained little of what was going on, all that was in this room was a small oil lamp lit upon a wooden barrel. Thomas then rose from the floor, even though it pained him to do so, and looked about for an exit, but to his terror there weren't any. He frantically began searching every inch of the room for any sign of escape, after what seemed like forever he collapsed near the barrel and began to cry. After a while he sits back up, the occasional sob rocking his body, he then realises that he hadn't yet searched the barrel that the lamp sat upon. He sets the lamp upon the cold floor carefully so as not to put out his only source of comfort in this dreary place, Thomas then lifts the lid from the barrel and unleashes a flood of water into the room. his first reaction is to save the lamp from the floor, for some reason Thomas felt that if this light was extinguished something terrible would happen to him. Soon the icy waters where up to his knees and still rising, and as it crept slowly closer to the ceiling Thomas began to scream and beg for someone, anyone to help him. But no help came, the water just rose higher and higher until it swallowed up Thomas Soll and his precious lamp.

Things seemed to end right there and then for Thomas, but then he began to hear voices, in the darkness he stumbled forward against the murky waters. His surroundings began to grow warm and a faint light began shinning before him, as he grew closer his vision began to shift and his eyes fluttered open. Bright white lights burned his eyes and he heard many frantic voices about him but all he could do was let out a horse laugh, he was alive! Later as he began to wake up more his wife informed him that he had been out driving during a storm when he lost control of his car and crashed headlong into the river. From that day forward he was a better man and always lived life to its fullest, his friends and family would sometimes talk of problems at large in the world but Thomas Soll didn't care, because those problems seemed small compared to how much he had before him.


The author's comments:

A short story that I wrote in english.


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