#the lurking

the lurking is not immune to picking favourites

allegory is only 6 years old when the talking shadow in the garden presses a writhing ball of shadow into their hands with a grin full of too many teeth. she smiles right back, giggling as the cool oil-like tendrils wrap around her fingers.

"it tickles!" the shadow laughs, sound fracturing halfway through and there is genuine joy in it, for once. allegory marvels at the way the darkness seeps into their skin, darker than any ink that her parents own tattoos are made of and moving constantly, like it's alive.

'if i could then i would' - every century, the lurking has to relive the fall. over and over and over and - and -

it hates the ouroboros year.

it always fucks with its head, no matter how much it tries to prepare. like clockwork the lurking feels its sense of self get stripped to nothing, built up and set ablaze from the ground up. reborn. it doesn't remember being itself, does not ever remember existing whilst also dreading what is to come. it screams for something, anything to end this fucking cycle and then its gone until -

the hearth has never died. the hearth was extinguished centuries ago. the hearth falls and falls and falls and -

at the end, it claws its way up just like every other time. the void sings to it, bedrock vibrating with its tenor hum as it mocks and coos words of false encouragement until its far enough below again that the lurking can no longer feel its hooks digging under its skin. the heat in its chest dies the further up it gets. shadows coalesce, dragged from the depths, alive and yearning for light and they'll never have it again but -

The Lurking (2015) (Movie Review)

The Lurking (2015) (Movie Review) Directed By: Rob Michels Starring: Jason Phelps, Shayne White, Samantha Haag Rated: UR/1:33 Available From Screaming Like Banshees

Two wasteoids go deep into the serial killer infested woods of Wisconsin to party, meanwhile bodies start to pile up around them.

The Lurking is about as basic of a throwback SOV (Shot on video) movie as you can get. We follow two…