Wisconsin
There’s something following me. I can’t see it, but out of the corner of my eye I can see movement. A shadow. Something. At the gas station I was sitting in the car watching the people coming and going and I saw it. That quick movement shooting behind the building as soon as I tried to focus on it. Sitting at the restaurant I saw it slip into the bathrooms before I could catch it. Everywhere I am it’s also there, just out of sight, dancing away in the corner of my vision. It’s driving me crazy. I know it’s there and it has to know that I know it’s there but it still refuses to show itself. I’ve asked around but nobody seems to know what I’m talking about and they just give me these blank looks and walk away. Everyone seems to have these blank looks, unfocused. They’re all very friendly of course just, distant, except for this one resident I passed by earlier. He approached me saying how he had heard I was asking if anyone saw anything strange. “Stop asking these people questions they can’t answer.” He said to me. “Why can’t they answer?” I had asked in a completely level manner. His face then paled considerably and he just stared at me. “Because of Wisconsin” he then looked over his shoulder with a scared face and ran away. I could see that thing flitting around the corner where that man had been staring. So that’s what he had been talking about. I wonder if Wisconsin will be strong enough to fight against the past, or if it will just hide and let the past destroy it. Either way I’ll be long gone from this place.
