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Mushrooms - Piece 11

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Life in a basement is horrible. With the lack of light and the already apparent dark, evil - shit, its just plain shit - energy, it left your body frail and pale. Uncle John did feed his captives, but they were lucky to get two meals a day. Usually a single meal consisted of cheap burgers and a handful of fries he had picked up picked up for himself but didn't finish. Ryan had already grown weak and his body began to hurt in places he never imagined would hurt. It was if his organs wanted to give it, wanted him to die. He bleed from two different wounds, both from the day before but he was alive. 
 
Sam smiled while painting crooked shapes, with all the best supplies Ryan had earned. He watched but he just wanted sleep to grip him at his neck so he could escape this reality.
 
Uncle John had returned for the day with their daily meal - fried chicken on the most flimsiest of paper plates. The grease had almost torn a hole in Ryan's plate. He's stomach hurt and as he twisted a drumstick to bite it he noticed someone had already beat him to it. There was no plate for Sam. Instead, she was taken upstairs to the kitchen where we could see her shadow cover the little bit of light that shined through the crack in the floor.
 
He could hear the quiet. The silence that plagued the room upstairs. It disappeared and was replaced by moaning and the rocking of the kitchen table. The porcelain plates danced and then they shattered on the floor and as if nothing happened, the table began to bang against the floor.
 
Three weeks. It took three weeks for Uncle John to become tired of her. The excitement was sublime for Ryan. He smiled in the dark as she was escorted down the stairs with a large red hand print on her face. A little drop of blood trailed down the side of her lips and as she was escorted back into her cage. Uncle John had pulled Ryan out of his cage and whispered into his ear. 
 
Ryan looked at the girl who had changed considerably through the weeks, growing weak through the abuse. He didn't realized that he had grown even weaker than her. When Uncle John left he dug through his paints and brushes and had found many bristles destroyed, overused and dirty. He let Uncle John know when he returned with more food that he needed better supplies if he wished for Ryan to prepare for her departure.
 
Uncle John had noticed Ryan's disgusting presence. He resembled an old man who had been a zombie for two long. He was skeletal and ghost like and that disgusted Uncle John. 
 
Sam sat quietly watching. Ryan could have sworn the words "I love you," darted through the air towards Uncle John but either he didn't listen or didn't care. 
 
Ryan waited three days for more supplies and he had already begun a new mural. Sam tried to talk to him, but he ignored her.  She would be dead soon and he would witness it.
 
Uncle John didn't take any of the two upstairs because he had already found a new captive to live with them her name was Jolene. Ryan liked Jolene. Sam now knew that she was going to die. Ryan had warned her that all this would happen.
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11 of 13 pieces. Almost done with this quick serial fiction. I can't wait to start posting "Monolith". I'm halfway done wit the first piece and it's really long. I've also received 16 applications and everyone one of them is a female. :stinkeye:

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Shyanne-Kai's avatar
Another excellent chapter. I think this is one of my favourites. I love the image of Samantha's shadow through the crack of light. The only thing is that the last paragraph feels a bit rushed. Can't wait for the climax!