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An Unfortunate Journey

I woke up in a strange place, one I didn’t recognize. Not knowing how I had gotten here, I tried to orient myself. Everything was cast in darkness except for a patch of light from a window at the top of a wall. The last thing I could remember was walking home from my photo exhibit, proud of how far I had come, when someone came up from behind and hit me over the head.

I tried to get up and make my way over to the window. As I sat up, my head started to throb from the sudden movement, and I had to clear it before I could move anymore. I must have been hit hard over the head for it to hurt like that, I realized. I checked for blood as I moved to stand, and found none.

As I stood up, I got a clearer picture of where I was. I seemed to be in a basement underneath a house, and there was a desk under the window. It had a lamp, what appeared to be a photographic enlarger, a large book, and pens on it. Everything was old-fashioned, from about the mid-1960’s. In front of the table on the floor was a large crimson colored stain that looked like it hadn’t been there for too long. I shuddered at the thought of what, or who, it could have come from, that there was a possibility I wasn’t the first to have been taken here.

I moved towards the window, hoping it would give me a clearer view of the room. My foot hit something soft about half of the way there. Catching myself before I fell, I moved it into the light to see what it was. I wished I hadn’t immediately.

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