Nightmares in Wawanakwa

Episode 8: Cody

Cody was dreaming…

Cody was sitting in the bathtub. He was inside a large yet empty bathroom. The walls were undecorated, painted white. There were no windows, no towels, no toilets or sinks, no bidets nor carpets. Just a bathtub, with a geeky boy in it. The tub was full of clear blue water.

Suddenly, a ripple begins to form in the water. A hand emerges from the center of the ripple. The hand reaches out to Cody, as if trying to grab him. Cody tries to slap it away, but the hand is persistent. Eventually, another hand emerges, also trying to grab him. Cody tries to leave the tub, but finds that his feet are being held. He is the dragged underwater.

Cody was now under the water. Suddenly, he finds that the water is limitless. He sees neither the bathtub rim, nor the bottom of the tub. He is now under the ocean. He looks at his feet, and sees the hands. He now notices that the hands have no body connected to them, and that THEY are dragging him underwater. He sees absolute darkness, there is no light around him.

Suddenly, he is inside a great hall. It is scarcely decorated, with a few wooden carvings of weeping angels. There is a chandelier offering a dim light. The carpet is red, and the windows are dirty, full of dust. Suddenly, a tap is heard outside the window. It is the hands. They are shaking, demanding that the window be opened. Cody is now afraid,

Suddenly, a small girl walks up to him. She is cycloptic, meaning she has but one eye in the middle of her forehead. She smiles at him. Her mouth is full of rotted teeth, mucus green and black in color. She is dressed in tattered doll clothes. In her hands, a large doll, missing an eye, an arm, a leg and the back of its head is being held in a motherly fashion.

The window opens. The hands, and there are now 18 of them, reach out to grab Cody. The girl begins to laugh. The doll turns its gaze to Cody, and laughs like the Devil Himself. Suddenly, behind Cody, a second doll appears. This doll has a very lifelike appearance, with a bobble cut, blue eyes, and a green dress. In its hands, it holds a pistol. The doll aims it at Cody.

Cody then woke up, drenched in his own sweat, his heart beating almost a million times per second.