Where am I?

Sometimes I get into great trouble , like the time I failed to stop the killer from taking out his hostages. I have been sorta a vigilant of sorts , going after crooks and criminals.

I am about 28 or so honestly cannot remember by this point. I have gone day by day which means I have lost a lot of track of time.

One day I am driving in the old country roads, to my left some cornfields. On my right has a cold dark distant forest , since its early march it’s still chilly this fine Indiana morning. I pull off the highway and step out of my large white truck, expecting to smell nice spring morning but only smell pig shit.” Oh great, some old pig farm, welp make some nice bacon some day.” I joke to myself before returning back to the road.

As I drive along I see a small town in the distance, “ hmmm, could use some gas.” I find a country road, ignoring the 40 miles per hour speed limit I move towards the town. I pass a nice rustic railroad crossing , as I pass by I swear I hear a train horn.

As I arrive at the town name, Tallonwood I see how small it is. “ pretty quant, only one gas station?” I enter the dingy convenience store to see a old man, wrinkled and pale with a glass eye.” Hello old timer, so I pay inside for gas?” I ask , it took him a couple seconds to even acknowledge my existence,” yes…. It will be 38 dollars, 16 cents.” He musters , clearly struggling to even speak.” Hey um that is a nice old railroad, still in use? I swear I heard a train horn?” I ask but the old man gave me a unamused look will commenting,” ain’t no train been down the tracks in 28 years now.” I got a weird breezy feeling like something was watching this conversation.” Hmm, interesting…”

After paying and exploring the town I find some weird missing person posters everywhere .” Strange…” I see some strange people watching me, they are clearly residents.” Hey? Need anything, I’m just here for a bit of gas. “ I yell to them, they slowly slip back into their homes.” Jackasses.” I keep exploring when I find a little motel, two buildings, one with about 10 rooms and the main office. I get a room for the night, because I’m curious on the town. The feeling of the town is one of cold and distant, like it is lost in time without signs of much life.

As night goes on I lay in bed, it smells of old cheap perfumes and bleach. I stir some on the ancient ass bed that’s sheets probably hasn’t been wash in at least five decades. I swear I hear a echoing train horn in the distance, faint noise of wheels barreling down the tracks a couple miles off . I get up and look out, nothing absolutely nothing but dark fields.” What the fu\~?” A sharp pain in my shoulder takes my attention as if someone ruffly grasp me , I turn to see smoke in my closet. I rush over to nothing insides burning, but my arm has a char along my shoulder in thee shape of a hand . As I look once more to the closet, I fell my heart drop to the earths core. A face smiles towards me between the doors, buried in darkness, but it looked burned and charred .

“ holy fuck! “I fall back but it was gone, nothing was now in the closet, no sign of entree or exit like a phantom was here. I heard the horn once more, clearly this time as I look out to see in the darkness a faint light, where the train would be if it was there. But it wasn’t , nothing just foggy empty fields .” Now this is already getting somewhere.” The next morning I explore the tracks, no sign of passage for years. Dust and grim covers the rotted wood and rusted metal, but a faint char along the edge where the wheels are.” What… is that up there?” I wasn’t prepared, a body, burned like what I say last night . Where or how did this get out here? It looks like it was struck, but by what, and how is it this burned? This town definitely has something hidden in its old decrepit homes. One I will discover even if it kills me, again.

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