Hey peeps
From the idea of “you see your own corpse revealing marks of your death how did you die” I wrote this story.
You come across your own corpse how did you die.
Simon has posttraumatic stress disorder. He has blocked out his past because it’s too painful. He has been prescribed tablets to help him deal with it but had stopped taking them because he felt he was better. He starts to have nightmare dreams and Hallucinations. One of his dreams is seeing himself laid dead on the floor with gunshots in his body and marks around his neck. Simon has always worn his dog tags around his neck and also a small chain with a key on it. He notices that the hallucination of himself is wearing dog tags but not wearing this key. He comes to the conclusion that someone has murdered him for the key as there is a lined mark around his neck as if someone had pulled it from him. Thinking that it’s something that’s going to happen to him in the future he tries to remember what the key is for.
He continues to have these Hallucinations/dreams and decides to draw what he sees to piece together what they all mean.
Hallucinations/dreams he has
1. Himself dead with missing key
2. A photo album with missing pictures
3. Black box
4. A diary
5. Shot wounds and mark around the neck
6. His dog tags with the numbers 1469.
Simon tries to look around his house to see if he can find anything. He comes across an old photo album many of the photos are missing.
The black box:
Inside the black box he finds a diary with padlock on.
The key around his neck fits to the diary he found. The diary has no numbers. On the 1st page it reads “the” 4th page “truth” and 6th page hurts” he continues through the book but the pages are blank. He writes the word out and the pages they were on.
He goes back to the drawings he has and comes across one with his dog tags the numbers are very faint it reads “1469”.
The numbers are links to the pages he was reading except with the extra number 9.
He goes through the book again and looks on page 9 he finds nothing. He counts the pages until he ends on page 1469 where it reads. “I hid these memories for a reason when the time comes I will open them up again but embrace them, embrace the ones that mean the most to me.” In the book is an address of a safe deposit box company.
In the safety box are the missing pictures, in the pictures there is always another boy. The other boy is his twin brother; there are pictures of when they were younger, at home with family birthday’s etc. one picture strikes him most, the one of them in the war together hugging, one is wearing a key one is not.
He begins to remember that his twin brother had died in the war they were fighting together. Simon was there when his brother was shot several times and his helmet was caught on something, causing the strap to chafe. The body was in the exact position as in his hallucinations.
Simon had brought a diary to record his time in the army but used it after his brother died to keep his past memories in.
