Are they amongst us.

Hi everyone,

I have started writing a short story based on dreams I used to have when I was young or nightmares mainly, and I wanted your opinions, I am not a writer in any way shape or form, but I am beginning to enjoy typing, I started writing this and I tried to let the tale unfold all by itself and this is what I ended up with.

Are they amongst us?

As I looked upon the night sky so dark, my eyes began to widen, all I could see was the flickering light from each individual star up above, ever so slowly the silhouetted trees and hedges appeared more prominent to me the closer I stepped toward them, I remember It was quite a cold chilly night and a little after midnight if I’m not mistaken, not a sound could be heard other than my own heavy footsteps, which echoed off the dried mud path along and toward what seemed to me to be an edge of nothingness, where once there had been something and now nothing.

My head was still spinning I was not sure what had just occurred or for that matter when It occurred, I know something had happened as I was there to witness it but my memory and recollection of it had all but vanished, somehow my mind had stopped working, like part of a clockwork machine suddenly these cogs that were deep inside my brain had malfunctioned, well that’s what I thought anyway, had I been in a accident?, I was not sure at that moment as there were no sounds around me of any kind and for some reason I was sure I wasn’t the only one affected, but as I couldn’t hear or see anyone around me I could only wonder.

I walked toward the edge of this nothingness, Well that’s the thing I’m classing it as, Nothingness, there was no sign of anything at all, no continuation of this path I was walking on, no trees, nothing and as I looked up to the sky above my head the stars were flickering out one by one as if someone had wet their fingers and snubbed them out, and there were no stars either from beyond that point where I was standing, there was just a blackness, a void, blacker than anything I had ever seen, or should I say not seen.

I turned around quickly and there in front of me was an old man dressed in a duffle coat and looking scared as hell “ where am I “ He said “ and who are you” I just looked at him thinking to my self either he’s mad or he and I have something in common “ I’m sorry mate I don’t know who I am” I told him, He looked at me and said “That’s weird, I don’t know who I am either” Something had happened to me and to this old man, and probably to everyone for miles around, all I knew was that there was nothing behind me, so the only way to go was to go the other way and find out where that lead to, I had to find out if there was anyone else affected and see if there was anyone in control.

This is where my story really begins.

Chapter one.

Tuesday 00:47, That’s what it shows on my slightly broken watch no other dates, I am walking down a path with this old man, we are both