October Prompts

He’s swimming again. 

Why does he always come to himself in dreams like this? 

Milo keeps swimming. 

He has open ocean all around. Empty of others, even fish, he is completely alone.

He keeps swimming.

He has always had dreams like this, for as long as he has remembered dreams. 

He has always been swimming. Sometimes it’s peaceful. Other times stressful, like he is just about to drown and the surface is always out of reach. But always, he is alone.

So he keeps swimming.  

He is usually mid depth in the ocean or even towards the surface. Always fully submerged and never without light.

Today though feels different, as he is heading towards a rocky cliff and down. That was completely new and Milo doesn’t know how he feels with this change. 

He is swimming towards an opening?

Every alarm in his observing mind is going off but he cannot help but to swim up to the entrance of this cave. His dream self peeks in and everything grows large around him.

He is ready to wake up now.

But he swims into the cave anyway. 

He is soon lost. The twisting turns of tunnels have him completely turned around. He is lost, trying not to panic, and he thinks something is now hunting him. 

He hates this. Seeing it out of the corner of his eye, a green glow, a flick of a fin just in his peripherals. His heart feels like it is going to burst. 

Please just let him wake up!

He finds his way into a dead end cave at the end of a rather long tunnel and there seems to be a pocket of air in this one. He tries to pop up through the surface when he feels something wrap around one of his ankles. He screams, water flooding his mouth and lungs. 

He looks back and sees a black mass of hair swirling around the most terrifying face: all teeth and coral growth lit by the green glow of an angler antennae. The thing clawed hand around his ankle pulls him in close and a long glowing serpentine body wraps around him trapping him in its coils. 

He struggles against his captor but hes growing weak and his vision starts to fade. The last thing he sees is those horrid teeth coming towards him before he wakes up, soaked in sweat and panting. 

He pulls his sheets around him and sobs.