Misgivings

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pungent stench of decay. Slowly the figure bent down until what was left of its face rested only inches from hers, the smell invading every pore of her body causing waves of dizzying nausea to roll through her. The man's pale face stirred with cascades of maggots as they fought to escape the deep pits where his eyes should have been. They fell onto Amy’s legs. She could feel them crawling all over her. She tried to move but found herself frozen; a bear-like grasp had clamped itself around her arm effortlessly holding her to the ground. With his free, icy hand he started to caress her cheek, wiping the tears away as they fell from her eyes. He moved in closer and opened his chapped mouth, a black slime poured from it, trickling down over Amy’s grey swea!
tshirt. The figure climbed on top of her, she was powerless to stop it. She was surrounded by the smell of death, the hungry maggots, and the putrescent black that dripped its cold wetness onto her face.
Amy awoke screaming. Her body trembled with complete and utter terror; her clothes a...