DANGER FROM THE OTHER SIDE Dream Journal, Twenty Devilish Faces The Fight For Alexis, Beamed, Demon Father and Maze Hunters: SIX SCIENCE FICTION SHORT STORIES IN ONE BOOK

SIX NARRATIVE STORIES AND A TOTAL OF EIGHTEEN STRANGE DREAMS

DANGER FROM THE OTHER SIDE

WRITTEN BY NICHOLE HAINES

©2017 Nichole Haines

I thought it was a nice day to go up to New York City for the day and walk around and get some relaxing time from my data entry job sitting in front of a computer all day typing all day. I wanted to get away from my everyday boring life. I haven’t been to New York city in years so I thought it would be nice to go and visit a museum for the day and just relax. I decided to tell my boss that I wanted to request a few days off to get a few nice days of vacation time in. I decided that it was probably best to wait to request off until the end of the week. I looked at the clock and noticed it was almost time for me to clock out for the day. I got out of my computer chair and walked toward the building elevators. I was on the fifty-fifth floor and I had to go down to the ground level of my office building to get to my car in the parking garage. I got on the elevator and the doors closed. I pushed the ground level button, but the elevator stopped on the thirty-fifth floor. The elevator doors slowly opened and a man with a business suit on got on the elevator. He had dark brown hair and brown eyes. He looked like he was in his mid 30’s. He smiled at me as he walked in and the doors closed. As the elevator was slowly going down to the ground level floor, he looked at me and said “Summer you know who I am and I want you to accompany me.” As he said that my heart began to race because fear came over me.  He looked at me and laughed in an evil tone to himself and then he got off on the twentieth floor. I decided to get something to drink at the cafeteria because I felt weak and felt like I was going to pass out. As I was standing there somebody tapped me on the shoulder, so I turned around. It was my old Russian boyfriend Anton from years ago. I haven’t seen him in years since the year 2000. I asked him what he was doing in my building and he said he was there to update some computer software in the building. It was really nice to see him after all these years. He told me he was going through a divorce with his wife right now. As I was walking away from the cafeteria Anton asked me if I would like to come over to his place to have some coffee with him like I used to when we were younger. I thought to myself well having a cup of coffee with him wouldn’t hurt, so I agreed to meet him at his place later on that evening. As I was pulling up to his house I noticed his younger brother Eli was sitting out on the porch drinking vodka. Anton greeted me outside as I pulled up in my car. They lived in a four bedroom contemporary style house, my kind of style house. As I walked into the house two cats came up to me and wanted to be petted as I tried to walk by them. Anton asked me to sit down at the living room table with him to drink coffee with me. As we were sitting there he said “Summer I want us to go out together again.” I still liked him but I knew from the past his parents didn’t like me because I was American and I wasn’t Jewish. He said he had to go to a friend’s funeral next week and it would be the perfect time for us to spend some time together. His brother came in with a few of his guy friends and they started drinking vodka. The two cats that greeted me earlier started to sharply claw at my legs. Anton seemed to disappear and I was sitting there trying to fight off these cats clawing at me. I then peeked around the corner and saw Anton sitting at a computer doing some sort of drug, when I asked him what he was doing he said he was doing acid. He then asked me if I wanted some but I refused. Anton mom came home and she was not very happy seeing me sitting there, but even though I knew she didn’t really like me she made me some really good Russian food for me to eat. As I was sitting there I kept wondering what was going through this psychologist’s head about me. I asked her if I could use their bathroom and she told me to use their upstairs bathroom. As I was walking up the stairway the stairs started to crumble up, like they were fake. It was almost like I was in some kind of computer simulation or some kind of game or something. Everything went completely black and I was sitting back in my office chair. A few coworkers were sitting around me and all of a sudden we heard a loud whooshing sound outside of the building we all ran to the window. There were UFO’s in the distance and people in the office started disappearing in the office. Everybody started running around in panic and started hiding in fear that they were going to be taken next. As I quickly ran to a closet I noticed some of the people were returned into the building and they were in a zombie type state and they were trying to eat other people’s flesh. I found a Bible on the floor in the closet and when I opened the Bible I noticed the pages were completely blank. I studied the Bible for years and at that point I remembered a verse that said God’s word would be taken away eventually.

Amos 8:11-12

11"Behold, days are coming,"declares the Lord GOD, "When I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine for bread or a thirst for water, But rather for hearing the words of the LORD. 12"People will stagger from sea to sea And from the north even to the east; They will go to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, But they will not find it.…

I put the Bible down and began to cry. Anton found me hiding in the closet crying. He said I needed to get home and get some sleep. I told him that I would go straight home to sleep. I got into my self driving car and told it to drive me home. My self driving car wasn’t driving me home. It was taking me back to the office with the UFO chaos. I tried to redirect the car but it wouldn’t listen to me. The car parked in front of the office building and stopped. I ran back into the office building and ran toward the elevators and decided I was going to find Anton again. I got on the elevator and it stopped on the thirty-fifth floor. The same man that was on the elevator earlier got into the elevator. He looked at me with an evil cold stare and once again said “Summer you know who I am and I want you to accompany me.” At that point I knew who he was. He was disguising himself as a man, but he was Satan! “I looked at him and screamed I will never join you or your kingdom. I believe in God.” I ran out of the office building and ran towards my car. I got in my car and started driving away. As I was driving I noticed a futuristic looking airplane in the sky flying above my car.

The futuristic plane was able to land safely in the distance, but it began to fly again. I was still in the car and I saw that the plane was coming down really low towards the car like it was going to crash on top of me, before it crashed on top of my car, I did a backward roll out of the of the car and ran to the nearest building and ran inside the building before it crashed on top of me. I quick turned around to see who was flying it and it was Satan in his disguise of a business man. I decided it was best to run on foot. As I went back outside all of a sudden something sucked me up in the sky. I was then in a restaurant with a bunch of strangers and also some of my family members were there too. They were all laughing drinking and eating and drinking alcohol. I noticed everybody had an RFID implant inside their right hand. I was the only one that didn’t have one. A man with glasses there told us all to go into the auditorium that they had in the restaurant. So we all sat down in the seats and the guy with the glasses on came in. As he was standing in the front of us I noticed that he wasn’t a average man. As he was talking I realized he was a demon disguising it self as a man. So I quick got out of my seat and ran out before he saw me. I ran outside and realized I was outside again in the dark and everything looked the same as it did before I got sucked up into the sky. As I was walking I saw a shinny glass futuristic looking building up ahead. I decided to continue to the glass building and the doors opened automatically for me. I walked in the building and Anton was sitting in the middle of the building along with a huge computer in front of him. The computer was making a creepy humming noise as I silently stood there. As I looked at the computer I noticed it said Quantum computer on the side of it. As I was walking towards Anton in tears and disbelief Satan appeared in thin air in front of me like a hologram. He said “Summer you are the last person on the Earth that needs to be chipped”. I looked at him and said no I will never get the RFID implant. Anton looked at me and said to me that this wasn’t my true reality and that it was a fabricated reality due to the quantum computers. He explained to me that quantum computers were up and running since the year 2003. At that point I remember the Bible verse that states that knowledge will be increased and God will allow Satan to take over.

Daniel 12:4  But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
Daniel 7:25  And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

**The Quantum computer was clearly messing up the time and fabricating my reality. I then remembered the Bible verse **

Romans 1:25

**They exchanged the truth about God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator--who is forever praised. Amen. **

As I was looking at Anton I realized that his right hand he had the RFID chip inserted into his hand. Satan looked at me at said it was time for me to join his Kingdom like the rest of the world. I looked at him and screamed NO! A little metal ball appeared above me and a small red laser beam came out of it and shot me right in the heart. I slowly stopped breathing and blackness surrounded me, but I could see a very bright tunnel ahead of me and the Gates of Heaven in front of me. I made it home.

The End

Revelation 21:1

Then I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth, for the old Heaven and the old Earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone.

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Twenty Devilish Faces

The Fight For Alexis

Written by Nichole Haines

©2017 Nichole Haines

I wanted to shout out but no sound would emerge, I couldn’t move, speak and worse I couldn’t scream. I couldn’t release the huge energy build up of terror from my body, I was sure I was going to explode. I was suspended in in-animation between sleep and wakefulness, hanging in neither world and aware of both, silent, trapped and tormented.

The light from the icosahedron hanging just above my head raped my mind, there was no place I could hide, yet I must resist, Alexis was mine, my baby girl, barely old enough to speak in full congruent sentences, she needs me my mind was screaming, he’s not having her, I’m her Mama.

The icosahedron began to move up and down my body, from my face to my feet, with each movement it became more invasive, more terrifying, more evil. Then the pain started, my whole body wracked in agony, silently I was screaming but still I couldn’t make any audible noise, still the worst torture was I had to suffer this in silence, my mind terrified for me, for Alexis, for everyone I knew, what was this magic, this indescribable evil that had complete control over my body?

The pain stopped as abruptly as it had begun and somehow silently I could hear a voice in my mind, clear, menacing and oh so powerful and persuasive:

“Give Alexis to me, that’s all you need to do, agree to my demands and you’ll be free, refuse and you’ll never see her again, agree and she’ll live with you under your care until her 16th birthday and then she’ll be mine.”

Surely I was sleeping, as realistic as all this seemed, all of my life experience was telling me none of this was real, no strange three dimensional shapes could control my body and make me mute, this was just an hullucinicenic effect of something I’d eaten, Alexis was in her bed in the next room, she wasn’t in any danger, no-one, supernatural or otherwise, wanted to steal her. I began to breathe deeply attempting to get hold of my anxiety, one deep breath after another.

** Then something from deep inside began to stir, I found that I was floating up and up and off the bed, my breathing became shallow again and through the fear and the disbelief I realized that my body was beginning to betray me, serotonin and dopa-mine flooded my mind and insides, energy exploded in my genitals and I wanted to scream with both terror and delight yet still I was mute, still unable to release, still totally beholden to whatever Devil this was that haunted my reality, and then I found myself falling, falling into a void, devoid of light, consciousness or dream, a nothingness, well they say sex and death are two sides of the same coin!**

It was still dark when I awoke, or had I slept all day? My body ached in ways I’d never imagined was possible before today, like I’d competed in a marathon with no preparation at all. I was just laying there in my bed feeling like I was unable to function, not really able to construct my memory to recall the experiences of last night. My mind drifted to Alexis, there was something I’d been worried about, something relating to her safety. I couldn’t recall but then I stopped myself, Alexis wasn’t in the next room, she was with my parents to give me a break, to let me recover, I’d been ill, physically and emotionally after Chris’s death, I needed to heal, to exorcise my demons, we’d fought that night and never had the chance to hug, kiss and say sorry before his car hit that wall.The police had said there was alcohol in his blood stream, he’d died because he had been drinking and driving but we’d been drinking together and the drinking led to our pointless fight, and then, and then, oh what was I going to do, how could I ever recover?

Without moving my body I allowed my eyes to scan the room around me, something was strange about my room, something not right. My eyes came to rest on a small mirror which seemed to have some traces of white powder on it and for some reason there was a razor blade. Drugs? Surely not, not without Chris, never alone. I resolved to get up and go and check on Alexis, surely she can’t have slept all day too, she was only a little girl, a baby, what kind of mother was I neglecting her?...and then I remembered she’s safe, she’s with Mum and Dad

I wanted some water, my mouth was so dry, I knew it would take all of my willpower to get out of bed, my body so ached, so I used my will to force myself yet I didn’t seem to have any control left over my body, my mind was active yet my body was somehow catatonic.

As I lay in a pool of my own sweat the strangest of things happened. I watched the essence of who I am step out of my body and walk away from me and then my consciousness shifted to the essence of me and I was free, I could travel wherever it was in the Universe I wanted to go.

I resolved to find Chris, to heal whatever emotional wounds were left between us and for a moment I thought where’s Alexis, maybe she’s with Chris, maybe I can see them both together?

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I still loved Chris, despite our awful fight on the night he died, yet I couldn’t shake the belief that there was something demonic about him, his rages when he was still alive and at times he seemed to revel in violence, physical, emotional and verbal. I left the house and headed for the bus stop, I must find Alexis, I needed to know she was safe, although Chris was her father I couldn’t be sure he’d protect her. Then it came back to me like a flood of memory like a tsunami in my mind, the icosahedron that controlled my body last night and the voice in my head, menacing me, abusing me, the extreme pain. How was this related to Chris, was he dominating me still from beyond the grave, was Chris just one of his incarnations, was he in fact Satan himself?

As I neared the bus stop, a bus just drove on by, I’d tried to convince the driver to stop but his strange, distorted yet somehow familiar face wasn’t having any of it. When I finally arrived I permitted myself a moment just to breathe, to gather my thoughts, to think how I was going to find Alexis.

I could see a bus coming my direction about half a mile away, I put my hand in my raincoat pocket frantically searching for my purse and then it occurred to me, I didn’t need money I was in a different world with different rules and alternative expectations. As the bus neared I stuck my arm out to indicate that I wished to ride. Strangely the bus didn’t slow down, if anything it started to increase its speed. As it fled by I realized that the driver had exactly the same face as the driver of the previous bus. He hit the horn and it appeared that he was pointing at the bus stop as the vehicle just drove on by. Why was the driver’s face so strange and so familiar, how peculiar was that? Then it occurred to me, yes he looked a little like Chris, no wonder this was so disturbing.

In the absence of knowing what to do next I began to examine the bus stop to try and discover what the bus driver had been pointing at. For the first time I noticed a large photograph of that icosahedronic shape that had so disrupted my sleep. I looked closer and noticed that in each of the twenty sides was a different photograph all of the same person, some angelic, many demonic and one or two of a damaged young man holding a young child in his arms. I looked closer in horror, they were all of Chris........