October 30th

Tina screamed from her padded room. The straight jacket held her arms tightly, but she struggled.

"Let me out of here! It was her. She made me do it."

Nobody listened to her pleading, but she knew this was because everybody else was probably doing the same thing. Everybody was crazy here, including her. The original voice in her head was gone. She'd taken care of that when she stabbed that voice in the neck. They said it had been a doctor, but she knew the truth. As soon as she arrived at this place, this… institution, she heard voices again. They claimed to be spirits — ghosts, but she didn't believe them, at least until they started doing things.

She felt the straightjacket loosen and her arms felt free. She pulled them from the long sleeves and slid the jacket off.

"Why do you want me free?" she asked. "Who are you?"

The only response she received was the lock to her door clicking and the door itself swinging inward. She stood to her feet and approached the exit slowly. When she looked into the hall, she saw a woman in a white hospital robe with hair hanging in her face. The woman looked at her with eyes black as night. She held out her hands and showed the blood dripping from her wrists. Tina closed her eyes and opened them. The woman was gone.

It was late at night and the halls were empty. She snuck towards where the corridor turned and looked up at the security camera. Something pushed it so that it pointed in the opposite direction and wouldn't record her.

"Go to the corner under the camera," a voice whispered. She obeyed these instructions, and watched as the camera moved and pointed back down the hall from which she came. She ran down the next hall, seeing a glass window further along and a door leading to the main office. There was a cart with tools on it from where a maintenance worker had been fixing something earlier in the day. Beneath a tool bag rested a drill. Further down the hall, on a small table, a pumpkin sat with a drill carved into the shell. She saw the drill move on its own, wiggling at first, then sliding on the ground towards her. Suddenly two people appeared before her. One was a doctor and the other, a patient, screaming as the doctor hammered an orbitoclast into the corner of his eye and puncturing his brain. The two of them vaporized into the air, and she knew what she had to do. Sneaking past the cart, she picked up a wrench. She ducked beneath the window and tossed the wrench towards the front entrance. The head orderly burst through the door, looking in the direction opposite of her. She was on him immediately, pressing the drill bit against his temple and piercing his skin. It turned and twisted as it entered, going deeper and ripping out brain matter as it moved forward. The orderly screamed for a brief second before he collapsed. She heard footsteps from down the hall and made her way to the door. She didn't know how far she'd make it, but she knew she had to try. She sprinted across the parking lot and into the night.

Go to October 29th                              Go to October 31st